Electricity markets currently face shared global challenges in the search for sustainable energy: security of energy supply, protection of the environment and maintenance of competitiveness. Together these three factors help produce cleaner and more compatible energy with sustainable development. One way of assessing the environmental performance and disclosure level of a company is the ...
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Authors Braga, Celia, Silva, Patricia P., Santos, Ariovaldo
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Page No. 39 to 53

Trade and investment are vital to economic growth and markets’ integration. A study was conducted to assess U.S. - Arab trade and investment relations and the impact of Free Trade Agreements on the economic development in the Arab world.The qualitative research utilized publically available trade and investment data for years 2010 -2014. U.S. exports to the 22 Arab count...
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Authors Ghassan F. Hanna
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This study provides empirical evidence regarding the bias of management forecasts and information content of management forecasts as analyst coverage increases both by firm and industry. Findings indicate that, on average, management forecasts in the sample exhibit downward bias in the forecast. This is a result that many prior researchers have found. However, when an industry analysis w...
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Authors Ronald A. Stunda
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The main objective of this research paper is to explore and investigate the customer satisfaction level of Berger paints Bangladesh limited. Berger, the market leader in the Bangladesh paint market, is one of the oldest names in the global paint industry. This Research paper will help the company to measure the present level of customer satisfaction and loyalty in Berger paints. This res...
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Authors Md. Touhidul Islam
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Page No. 23 to 40

The Internet has revolutionized, and continues to profoundly affect, the way one does business. Since the Internet has become a main source of communication both within and outside organizations, they are caught between providing Internet access to employees to perform job related activities and monitoring employees’ use of Internet without infringing on their rights and...
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Authors Adeoye Adetola Atinuke, Adelowo Oluremi Titilope
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This paper aims to examine the relationship between gross domestic product and Indian stock market from a sectoral perspective by using quarterly time series data from 2003:Q4 to 2014:Q4. Ng-Perron unit root test is utilized to check the order of integration of the variables. The long run relationship is examined by implementing the ARDL bounds testing approach to co-integration. VECM me...
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Authors Pooja Joshi, Prof. A.K. Giri
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This study aims to identify whether customers who live further away from bank branches where they opened their checking accounts are as profitable as those who live closer. For this purpose, it were selected 30 bank branches of one of the largest retail banks in Brazil and it was used analysis of variance in order to compare customer mean profitability of these branches among primary, se...
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Authors Eduardo Kalil Hanna
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This paper explores forecast of future growth of Sovereign Wealth Funds, we used data of number of funds that were created during period from 1976 to 2012. In this regard, we found that number of SWF´s will rise during period 2013-2030 by 61 from 74 to 135, it means an increase of number of funds by 82.43 percent more compared with during period 1876 till 2012. Second, we provide...
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Authors Antonia Ficova
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Grameen Bank (GB) is a micro lending organization in Bangladesh that was initiated by Professor Muhammed Yunus as a pilot project in Jobra village in 1976. It provides small loans to rural poor women, without collateral, following group lending peer support methodologies. It disburses $16.7 billion to 8.67 million borrowers through 2247 branches across Bangladesh. The loan repayment rate...
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Authors Professor Dr. Kazi Abdur Rouf
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Stock markets have long played an important role in economic life (Stijn, V. N., Frans, B., Ludo, C., 2006). The objective of this study is to explore the presence of a causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth in Sri Lanka. Sample period uses annual time series data over the period from 1990 to 2013. To address this relationship, a Granger Causality Test w...
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Authors S. A. U. Niranjala, Wei Jianguo
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