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The Effects of Market and Macroeconomic Uncertainties on Corporate Investment Decisions in Nigeria

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Journal: International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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In this paper, the effect of market and macroeconomic uncertainties on corporate investment decisions was examined using the real option investment theory. Two types of uncertainties were investigated: macroeconomic uncertainties (exchange, interest and inflation rates) and market uncertainty (stock market volatility) while corporate investments were measured as the sum of the changes in capital stock and depreciation. Data were obtained for the period 2005-2019 and the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) estimation technique was employed. The results showed a significant difference between the effects of macroeconomic and market uncertainties on corporate investment decisions. We found that macroeconomic uncertainty of inflation rate has positive relationship with corporate investments, with a coefficient of 0.35071, and interest rate uncertainty (0.15567) and exchange rate uncertainty (-0.07852) were also statistically significant, whereas the linear market uncertainty has a negative value of -0.00173 and the quadratic market uncertainty (0.00520) was statistically insignificant. Therefore, interest rate volatility and inflation expectations are not factors constraining investment growth; however, exchange rate uncertainty exerts a substantial negative influence on corporate investment in Nigeria. Given the findings, the study recommends, among others, an appropriate and stable exchange rate policy that makes for easy business planning and forecasting by rational investors. To achieve a stable exchange rate that would bring about increased investment, the government should implement efficient macroeconomic policies, such as those that minimize the structural rigidities in the economy.
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This study contributes to the existing literature on the effects of market and macroeconomic uncertainties on corporate investment decisions using a Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity model. The study establishes that while macroeconomic inflation rate uncertainty positively affects corporate investments, linear and quadratic market uncertainty negatively affect corporate investments.
Business & Management » International Journal of Management and Sustainability » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Automatic Gas Leakage Monitoring System Using MQ-5 Sensor

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Journal: Review of Computer Engineering Research

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Safety plays a crucial role in today’s world, and an automatic safety system must be employed in environments like institutions, hospitals, homes, factories, and workplaces. One of the precautionary measures that must be taken to avoid the danger associated with gas leaks is to install a gas leak detection system in places that are at risk. This paper presents a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) leakage monitoring system. The gas detector MQ-5 used in the design is responsible for measuring the gas that is leaking. An Arduino microcontroller acts as the brain of the whole system, controlling all the components in the design. If the gas sensor detects a gas leak, it will sound an alarm by means of a buzzer and will send SMS messages to the registered mobile numbers with the help of the GSM module. A liquid crystal display is used in the study to display the presence or absence of gas leakage.
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To generate awareness of the security actions individuals can take in their day-to-day life in response to the rise in the outbreak of fire and explosions in the world today.
Computer Sciences » Review of Computer Engineering Research » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 2

Assessing the Performance and Factors Affecting Industrial Development in Indian States: An Empirical Analysis

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Journal: Journal of Social Economics Research

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This study measures the industrial performance of Indian states using secondary data. It uses value of gross output, gross value added, invested capital, number of factories, gross capital formation, total inputs, total persons engaged, and total emoluments of industries. Next, it examines the factors affecting the gross value added of industries, using state-wise panel data for the period 2003–2018. Linear, log-linear and non-linear regression models are considered to estimate the regression coefficients of total persons engaged, gross capital formation, total inputs, labor productivity, per person emoluments, capital intensity, and credit to industry by scheduled commercial banks, annual population growth, and literacy rate with the gross value added of industries. Among the Indian states, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka make the greatest contributions to industrial development. Labor productivity, annual population growth, literacy rate, total person engaged, credit to industries by scheduled commercial banks, per person emoluments, and gross capital formation positively influence gross value added. Literacy rate, per person emoluments, capital intensity and total inputs display a hill-shaped association with gross value added. Labor productivity, annual population growth, credit to industries by scheduled commercial banks, total persons engaged, and gross capital formation display a linear association with the gross value added of industries in India.
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This study makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature by examining the factors affecting industrial development in Indian states using a concrete empirical model. It provides practical policy implications to increase the industrial growth by strengthening labor productivity, capital intensity, financial support, capital formation and human skills across Indian sates.
Economics » Journal of Social Economics Research » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 2

The Impact of Social Knowledge on the Efficiency of the Financial Markets: A Case Study on the Erbil Stock Exchange (ESX)

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Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

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This study was designed to investigate the factors that can have an impact on the efficiency of financial markets, and the Erbil Stock Exchange was chosen as a case study. The researchers sought to evaluate the level of social knowledge by concentrating on certain dimensions which have a direct influence on the public’s perspective regarding financial markets – namely religion, culture and economic awareness – and the number of people participating in the sale and purchase of stocks and shares. This study tested the hypotheses by applying some statistical analyses, and the outputs are detailed in the tables, figures and factors. According to the results, the efficiency of the stock market is affected by monthly income, culture and religion, and public experience. It was also found that there is no difference in perspective between men and women regarding investing in the stock market. This is supported by the hypothesis test results, which indicated that there is no correlation between gender and economic awareness, number of participators, culture, and religion. The results of the factor analyses show that there is a significant correlation between religion, culture, economic awareness and the number of people participating and social knowledge, and that these factors significantly affect the efficiency of the stock market.
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This study is one very few studies which have investigated efficiency of the stock market by testing some crucial factors. This study highlights the consequences of inefficiency in the market and the consequences of the lack of willingness of investors and the public to invest in the stock market, while the financial market positively reflects the economic and financial improvements in Iraq.
Social Sciences » Humanities and Social Sciences Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Do Performance-Based Pay and Pay Competitiveness Moderate the Relation Between Lower-Level Employees Total Compensation and Job Satisfaction? Evidence from South Korea

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Decades of international multidisciplinary studies have examined how compensation affects employees and organizations, but they neither specify the boundary conditions for employee job satisfaction nor differentiate the effects of pay on job satisfaction of employees at differing tiers within an organization. We explore whether performance-based pay and pay competitiveness moderate the relation between total compensation and job satisfaction among lower-level employees in South Korea. To investigate boundary conditions for that relation, we use performance-based pay and pay competitiveness as variables that tie compensation structure to job satisfaction. Drawing from data for 2,281 employees at 470 South Korean firms, we consider how two variables—incentive compensation and pay competitiveness—influence job satisfaction of lower-level employees. First, we confirmed a positive relationship between compensation and job satisfaction, and second, we found that the relationship is stronger among employees of firms where average compensation is below what is paid elsewhere.
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This study contributes to prior research by extending the existing understanding of the effective management of lower-level employees using compensation practices. More specifically, our findings urge companies to consider compensation structure as a means to improve the impact of pay rises on job satisfaction for lower-level employees.
Social Sciences » Humanities and Social Sciences Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Does an Exchange-Traded Fund Converge to its Benchmark in the Long Run? Evidence from Ishares MSCI in Asia-Pacific Countries

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Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

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This study examines the linkages between exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and their benchmark indices from 2013 to 2019 using iShares MSCI of ten Asia-Pacific countries. Our results show, first, that there is a long-run causality running from the benchmark index to ETFs. These findings imply that ETFs may replicate the performance of the benchmark index over the long run. Second, there is a unidirectional causal relationship from ETFs to the benchmark index in the short run, which indicates that benchmark index prices respond to the short-run changes in the ETF prices when new information is available. Third, there is a significant tracking error between ETFs and the benchmark index. This finding justifies the existence of stock selection and market timing abilities among the ETF managers. Lastly, fund managers add value to the ETFs and generate better than the market returns. This paper provides new evidence to support this new stylized fact of ETFs.
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This study contributes to the existing literature on whether ETFs replicate the performance of the benchmark index in the long run. The findings of long-run relationships between ETFs and benchmark index prices highlight the price discovery role of ETF, which could benefit benchmark index forecasting.
Social Sciences » Humanities and Social Sciences Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

The Mediating Effects of Key Audit Matters on the Relationship Between Audit Quality and Earnings Management: Evidence from Jordan

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The relationship between audit quality and earnings management has not been tested with consideration of key audit matters as a mediating variable. This study examined whether audit quality (AQ) decreases earnings management (EM) in shareholding corporations through improving key audit matters (KAMs) in Jordan’s emerging environment. A regression analysis was carried out on a sample that included financial reports and auditor reports of 105 industrial and service shareholdings companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2017 to 2019. The study found a negative relationship between audit quality and earnings management. The results showed that audit quality increases key audit matters, which, in turn, decreases earnings management. Also, the study confirmed the mediating effect of KAMs between audit quality and earnings management. The study confirms the importance of key audit matters to provide more relevant and useful information for the users of financial reports and provides important indications to the regulatory authorities and standards bodies that key audit matters should be given more attention regarding the way that they are presented and disclosed.
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The paper’s primary contribution is finding that key audit matters - as a mediating variable – affect the relationship between audit quality and earnings management, which was tested in an emerging environment in Jordan.
Social Sciences » Humanities and Social Sciences Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Choice: The Impact of Health and Health Risk

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Journal: The Economics and Finance Letters

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This paper investigates the effect of health and health risk on households’ optimal consumption and portfolio allocations over the life cycle. The simulation results show that consumption, savings in bonds, and savings in stocks all increase in health. Compared with poor health households, the healthy households consume 49% higher, invest 27% and 39% more in bonds and in stocks, respectively. The risky portfolio share, which is the ratio of stocks to the total financial assets is positively related with health for most of the lifetime. Regarding the age profile, it demonstrates the same tendency for both health levels: at the very young age, the risky portfolio share is relatively high. Starting from the middle age, this share falls significantly and keeps steady until the end of life. These results emphasize the importance of health and its associated risk in consumption and portfolio decisions. With all other things equal, households’ consumption and investment behaviors are heterogenous across health. It also provides significant policy applications: by promoting health and reducing health risk, it would largely improve households’ well-being: higher consumption, and more savings in financial assets.
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This study is one of very few studies which incorporate health and its associated risk into households’ consumption and financial decisions. This paper contributes to a new and growing finance-health literature and finds significant impacts of health and health risk on households’ optimal consumption and portfolio allocations.blooket login
Economics » The Economics and Finance Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 2

A Simple and Effective Methodology for Generating Bounded Solutions for the Set K-Covering and Set Variable K-Covering Problems: A Guide for or Practitioners

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Journal: Review of Computer Engineering Research

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As generalizations of the classic set covering problem (SCP), both the set K-covering problem (SKCP) and the set variable (K varies by constraint) K-covering problem (SVKCP) are easily shown to be NP-hard. Solution approaches in the literature for the SKCP typically provide no guarantees on solution quality. In this article, a simple methodology, called the simple sequential increasing tolerance (SSIT) matheuristic, that iteratively uses any general-purpose integer programming software (Gurobi and CPLEX in this case) is discussed. This approach is shown to quickly generate solutions that are guaranteed to be within a tight tolerance of the optimum for 135 SKCPs (average of 67 seconds on a standard PC and at most 0.13% from the optimums) from the literature and 65 newly created SVKCPs. This methodology generates solutions that are guaranteed to be within a specified percentage of the optimum in a short time (actual deviation from the optimums for the 135 SKCPs was 0.03%). Statistical analyses among the five best SKCP algorithms and SSIT demonstrates that SSIT performs as well as the best published algorithms designed specifically to solve SKCPs and SSIT requires no time-consuming effort of coding problem-specific algorithms—a real plus for OR practitioners.
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This study documents a methodology that iteratively uses integer programming software to efficiently generate solutions that are guaranteed to be very close to the optimums for the set K-covering problem. A significant benefit of this methodology is that no problem specific algorithm needs to be coded by the user.
Computer Sciences » Review of Computer Engineering Research » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 2

An Experimental Economic Study of Loss Aversion in Stock Trading Decisions

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Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

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The disposition effect is a form of behavioral bias that tends to result in investors holding on to their losing stocks for too long and selling winning stocks too soon. It can be explained by the behavioral economics theory of loss aversion. Even though many have studied this kind of behavioral bias in a variety of different countries, none of them have investigated the disposition effect in the case of Thailand. Therefore, the main objective of our study is to test the disposition effect among Thais by applying the experimental economic approaches of Weber & Camerer (1998) and Odean (1998) whilst also including the findings from questionnaires and interviews. We set up a simulation stock trading market to test the disposition effect of participants regardless of whether they had stock trading experienced or not. Subjects were required to trade among six stocks in 14 trading periods. We also added three more periods to test how different types of news impacted the subjects’ trading decisions. In addition, we analyzed socioeconomic factors that affect disposition effect behavior by using an econometric binary choice model. We found that this experiment can exhibit the disposition effect of subjects in terms of overall and individual measurement. In normal stock trading situations, we found that over 70% of subjects showed clear signs of the disposition effect, which seemed to decrease after they received fictional news.
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This study is one of very few studies that have investigated the behavioral economics of the disposition effect and the effect of news on behavioral change in the case of Thailand based on experimental methods.
Social Sciences » Humanities and Social Sciences Letters » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the Public and Private Sector Banks in Bihar: A Comparative Study

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Journal: International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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Customer relationship management (CRM) plays a crucial role in any organization because success or failure depends on a company’s relationship with its customers. The objective of this study is to see how CRM can play an important role in the public and private sector banks in Bihar, India. The sample for the study consists of 250 bank managers from both public and private sector banks in Bihar. A CRM questionnaire developed by the researchers was used to measure CRM in the banking sector. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Inferential statistics including t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. The t-test results show that both the public and private sector banks differ significantly in the variables of customer contact by phone/e-mail, customer care, and innovation and quality. The ANOVA results showed that the four groups (public sector males, public sector females, private sector males, and private sector females) differed significantly in the eight variables (commitment; citizenship behavior; customer contact by phone/e-mail; planning; improved retention & better targeting of new customers; top management support; innovation and quality; and technological readiness.
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This study is one of the very few studies which has investigated the implementation of CRM in both public and private sector banks in Bihar, India, and will help researchers, academicians, bank managers, and policymakers to understand the importance of CRM in the banking sector.
Business & Management » International Journal of Management and Sustainability » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Can Insider Status Promote Employee Voice Behavior?

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This research investigates employee voice behavior (EVB) as a behavioral consequence of perceived insider status (PIS) through felt obligation behavior. Based on social identity theory, this research postulates that when employees realize that they are an insider, they tend to see themselves as a citizen of an organization and proactively engage in voice behavior. In order to evaluate this relationship, we collected 983 self-completed surveys from participants of public organizations in Fiji. The findings show that as insiders, employees unbegrudgingly engage in voice behavior when trying to provide corrective changes. This relationship was also partially mediated by felt obligation behavior (FOB). Interestingly, this study is the first one to use social identity theory to explain how employees form close attachment to the organizations they work for, driving greater feelings of belongingness and altering their behavior to engage in voice behavior. Therefore, we find social identity theory to be very relevant in explaining the relationship between PIS and EVB through FOB. This makes a significant contribution to the social identity theory. Finally, the current study offers practical implications, limitations, and further research directions.
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This study contributes to extant literature by investigating how an employee, who perceives himself or herself as an insider, has a greater potential of promoting voice behavior in an organization. In addition, the current study also shows that the relationship between perceived insider status and voice behavior is partially strengthened by felt obligation.
Business & Management » International Journal of Management and Sustainability » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Investigating Citizenship Behavior Effectiveness and Extending the Effectiveness of Project Implementation in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Journal: International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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Entrepreneurs are striving to maintain the existence of their businesses in the face of the COVID–19 pandemic. Top management need to maintain effective processes and ensure employee motivation to keep the right employees in the business. The level of interest of both academic researchers and practitioners has increased regarding employee relations within organizations during lockdown situations. Most workplaces implemented work from home arrangements for most employees. This study seeks to examine the citizenship behavior effectiveness and the effectiveness of project implementation in construction projects in the oil and gas industry. Citizenship behavior effectiveness was used as a theoretical framework for this research. The construction project employees from the oil & gas industry were invited to take part in this research. Quantitative data analysis was employed with a structural equation modelling approach during the transition from office and construction sites to working from home. The findings revealed that citizenship behavior effectiveness has a positive influence through the observable variables.
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This research contributes to the existing literature by providing valuable information for policymakers regarding how facilitators and inhibitors influence large-scale construction projects in the oil and gas industry.
Business & Management » International Journal of Management and Sustainability » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 4

Does the Formal Financial Sector Enhance Small Business Employment Generation in Nepal: Evidence from Cross-Sectional Data

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Journal: Journal of Social Economics Research

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Small business enterprises are widely recognized as a driving force of economic growth and development in any nation. Empirical evidence has shown that they contribute to job creation, help to alleviate poverty, and increase a nation’s level of productivity. In the exponential increase of small businesses, the role of the financial sector is crucial. This paper aims to identify the role of formal financial support in small business employment generation in Bouddhanath, Kathmandu. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Purposive sampling was used to select 285 business owners. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect their responses. Primary and secondary data was employed to analyze user status. Data analysis was performed with the help of descriptive analysis and a financial support index. The results showed that financial support plays a critical role in the enhancement of the small business sector, allowing businesses to create employment opportunities which further helps to maintain the Nepalese economy. The major challenges to the growth of small businesses in Nepal lie in securing initial funding and overreliance on credit. In addition, the ability to afford quality staff has an equally strong effect on the success of small businesses. Business growth clearly depends on the role of the formal financial sector to achieve the desired outcomes.
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This study is one of few studies in the Nepalese context to investigate the hurdles to formal financial support experienced by small businesses. It also identifies the major factors that key players in the Nepalese trade sector can use to influence investors towards trading and investing in Kathmandu valley.
Economics » Journal of Social Economics Research » Month: 12-2021 Issue: 2

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