Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWhy the Dogs of the Dow Bark Loudly in ChinaCarol Wang, James E. Larsen, Fall M. Ainina et al.Problem statement: The Dogs of the Dow (Dow Dogs) strategy, which has gained widespread popularity in the U.S., is found to be considerably successful in China’s stock markets. This trading strategy contradicts the well-established efficient market hypothesis. Approach: This study examines the cross-sectional variations in the magnitude of the predictive power of the Dow Dogs strategy using Chinese stocks for … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 4 Nov 2011 · 8,023 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractParameter Estimation for the Double Pareto DistributionFaris M. Al-AthariProblem statement: The double Pareto distribution appeared most often as model for variety of fields, including archaeology, biology, economics, environmental science, finance and physics. The distribution exhibits Paretian power-law behavior in both tails. The family of double Pareto distributions has recently been proposed for modeling growth rates such as annual gross domestic product, stock prices, foreign currency exchange rates and … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 28 Oct 2011 · 8,679 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractModel Development for Health Promotion in the Elderly Participating in CommunitiesSupat Jampawai, Somporn Pothinam, Manop Kanato et al.Problem statement: The problem of the research derives from a lack of research study to develop the suitable model for health promotion in the elderly and examine factors concerning the health promotion in the elderly. This research aimed to study and develop suitable health promotion model for elderly participating in communities and examine factors related to the health promotion of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 30 Jul 2011 · 7,467 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMultilingual Database Management System: A Performance EvaluationNurul Husna Mohd Saad, Hamidah IbrahimProblem statement: The use of English as well as Arabic language is increasingly evident in the aspects of international business and finance. Therefore, this study explored the management of multilingual data in multilingual system in order to be able to cater two or more different speakers of Internet users. Approach: The proposed method is divided into two ends: The front-end … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 28 Jun 2011 · 7,410 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFree Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Serbia: An Analysis of Motivations, Financing and ObstaclesNina Radojevich-KelleyProblem statement: Entrepreneurship is considered to be a major driving force to economic development throughout the world. Free enterprise is challenging in any country, especially in a developing nation such as Serbia where communism and socialism prevailed for decades. The purpose of this study is to examine entrepreneurship and free enterprise in Serbia as well as the challenges or obstacles … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 21 Apr 2011 · 8,051 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEstimation of the Parameters of the Stochastic Differential Equations Black-Scholes Model Share Price of GoldKhaldi Khaled, Meddahi SamiaProblem statement: The estimation of the parameters is one of main problems of the dynamic models in many scientific fields and particularly in economics and finance. In this study, we examine the techniques of estimation of the parameters of the Black-Scholes model. These techniques are based on the function of probability. Approach: The two estimations are based on the likelihood … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 24 Dec 2010 · 7,716 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Impact of Foreign Ownership on Firm Performance, Evidence from an Emerging Market: TurkeyAli Osman Gurbuz, Asli AybarsProblem statement: The inflows of foreign direct investment are important sources of finance for developing countries. Due to the increase in the amount of the international flows of capital over the last three decades, the issue of the possible impact of foreign direct investment on the performance of corporations and thus the economy has gained increased attention. The purpose of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 28 Nov 2010 · 15,829 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractSpecial Issue for the 6th International Conference on Applied Financial Economics, Samos, Greece, 2-4 July 2009Alexandros E. Milionis, Hayette GatfaouiThe idea behind this issue was to publish the full papers of selected works presented in the 6th International Applied Financial Economics (AFE) Conference, which took place at the premises of the Research and Training Institute of East Aegean (INEAG) in Samos Island, Greece, 2-4 July 2009. Despite their short history, the AFE Conferences, co-organized by INEAG, the Department of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 28 Nov 2010 · 11,096 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Event-Based Methodology to Generate Class Diagrams and its Empirical EvaluationSandeep K. Singh, Sangeeta Sabharwal, J. P. GuptaProblem statement: Event-based systems have importance in many application domains ranging from real time monitoring systems in production, logistics, medical devices and networking to complex event processing in finance and security. The increasing popularity of Event-based systems has opened new challenging issues for them. One such issue is to carry out requirements analysis of event-based systems and build conceptual models. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 23 Oct 2010 · 7,632 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAnalysis the Determinants of Corporate Philanthropy: A Case Study in the Jordanian Commercial BanksFaris Nasif AL-ShubiriProblem statement: Corporate philanthropy measurement has been the concern of many corporations who have tried to develop determinants for it. Hence, this study explores the determinants of corporate donations listed on ASE-index for 12 commercial banks over the four year period 2005-2008. Simple and multiple regression techniques have been used for gauging the determinants of corporate philanthropy after collecting data … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2010 · 8,435 accessesView PDFCite