Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordFree 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 · 8,046 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAnalysis 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 · 8,430 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEuropean Union and a Cost Benefits Analysis for its Members: The Case of Historic GreeceIoannis N. KallianiotisProblem statement: This study tried to determine the cost and benefits of Greece before and after joining the European Union and some of the problems that the current European (and the prospective Euro-Asian) Union has created to all European citizens. Approach: The most severe ones were the social chaos, which was increasing every day, due to the current financial crisis … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2009 · 7,736 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordThe Random Walk Hypothesis for the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange: January 1998-November 2006Tafirenyika Sunde, James ZivanomoyoThe main intention of this study was to investigate, using monthly data, whether prices in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) follow a random-walk process as required for there to be market efficiency. The study applied the unit root tests to establish if the ZSE followed a random walk or not. If the ZSE follows a random walk it is said … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2008 · 8,085 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordFuzzy Assignment Procedure based on Categories' BoundariesGeorge Rigopoulos, John Psarras, Dimitrios Th. AskounisWe presented a procedure for multicriteria assignment problems. Assignment to a category is based on the comparison between an action and categories’s boundaries. Boundary is represented by the least typical action that can be included in the category, and is considered as the category’s inclusion threshold. Comparison is executed considering performance on evaluation criteria and calculation of a fuzzy inclusion … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2008 · 7,040 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordVolatility in Malaysian Stock Market: An Empirical Study Using Fractionally Integrated ApproachChin Wen CheongThis study explores the fractionally integrated (FI) time series analysis in Malaysian stock market. Four proxies of latent volatility, namely the absolute return, squared return and range-based (Parkinson and Garman and Klass) volatilities are selected for the empirical studies. In addition, the well-known FI autoregressive conditional variance (ARCH) type model is also taken into account for comparison purposes. Our empirical … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2008 · 6,706 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordThe Determinants of Urban Household Poverty in MalaysiaT. Y. Mok, C. Gan, A. SanyalSince independence in 1950s Malaysia has been recognized as one of the more successful countries in fighting poverty: head count ratio came down to 5.7% by 2004. However the recent process of rapid urbanization has led to an increase of urban poverty aggravated further by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It is important to understand the nature and scale of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2007 · 9,855 accessesView PDFCite