This study examined the effect of board diversity on the financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study also examined the relationship between board independence and financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria.
In the last decade, there has been an increase in interest in social firms in Europe, partly due to the transfer of technology fostered by support organisations in Italy and elsewhere. By 2005 there were over 8000 social firms in[r]
Another procedure would be to build explicitly dynamic models that allow interaction between expectations and investments. In this paper, we take the first approach and shock the standard GTAP model by adjusting the real exchange rate. There are a numb[r]
This paper attempts to determine the oil price threshold while analyzing oil price effects on several macro factors, such as inflation, GDP growth, budget deficit, and unemployment rate over the 2000–2015 period.
By expanding aggregate demand, policymakers can choose a point on the Phillips curve with higher inflation and lower unemployment.. By contracting aggregate demand, policymakers can choo[r]
Chapter 17 - Unemployment: meaning and measurement. The following will be discussed in this chapter: Measurement of unemployment, incidence and duration of unemployment, Canadian unemployment trends, does unemployment rate accurately reflect hardship?
After reading this chapter, you should be able to: Interpret how macroeconomics studies both long-run economic growth and short-run fluctuations in output and unemployment; explain why economists focus on GDP, inflation, and unemployment when assessing the health of an entire economy; discuss why su[r]
This paper examined the extent to which corruption pose a challenge and weigh down national security and development in Nigeria with various manifestations. The prevalence of corruption challenges in Nigeria is highly pervasive by undermining the nation''s social, economic and political development.[r]
Chapter 35 - Extending the analysis of aggregate supply. In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Explain the relationship between short-run aggregate supply and long-run aggregate supply; discuss how to apply the extended (short-run/long-run) AD-AS model to inflation, recessions, and e[r]
This study evaluated the “Effect of Mobile Money Transfer Scheme on the Economic Growth of Cameroon”. Mobile Money Transfer Scheme was the independent variable, meanwhile Economic Growth was the dependent variable and the proxies used were Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Inflation Rate.
Case A 1) The model. The world economy consists of two monetary regions, say Europe and America. The monetary regions are the same size and have the same behavioural functions. An increase in European money supply lowers European[r]
6. She said that she ......... abroad at the end of that week. A. will go B. would go C. went D. had gone 7. It's not worth ___ money on this product. It's completely useless. A. to spend B. spend[r]
This paper investigated the effect of political risk on FDI inflow to Nigeria using secondary data from 2000 to 2014 using simple linear regression. The study combined from select variables, the institutional factors with location determinants peculiar to Nigeria’s risk environment.
D. That the present situation is like in the Industrial Revolution. 32. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of one of the industrial revolutions? A. The use of oil. B. The[r]
Inflation and Interest Rates The Fisher Effect • In a 1896 classic article, economist Irving Fisher argued that expected nominal interest rate = expected real rate + inflation premium [r]
Chapter 32 - Inflation. In this chapter you will learn: How to explain the neutrality of money? What the classical theory of inflation is? What relationship exists between the quantity theory of money and inflation (and deflation)?...
Chapter 27 - Unemployment and the demand for labor. In this chapter you will learn: How economists measure employment and unemployment? How minimum wage rates and unionization can cause unemployment? Why there is a natural rate of unemployment? Why there is a cyclical component of unemployment?
Professor Higgins has developed the theory of Technological Dualism. The use of different production functions in the advance sector and in the traditional sectors of UDCs. The existence of such dualism has increased the problem of structural or technological unemployment in the industrial sector an[r]
The relationship among budget deficit, money creation and inflation in Uganda is analyzed using a triangulation of Vector Error Correction model (VECM) and pair-wise Engel-Granger non- causality test techniques over the period 1999Q4 - 2012Q3. Results suggest that fiscal deficits do not seem to nece[r]
government purchases. As a result there is an infinite number of solutions. Put another way, monetary and fiscal cooperation can reduce the loss caused by inflation and unemployment. 2) A demand shock in Europe. We assume equal weights in[r]