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Day of the week effect on stock returns and volatility in emerging and frontier markets in Africa
(Strathmore University, 2021)The study examines the day of the week effect on average stock returns and compares the daily price volatilities in emerging and frontier markets in Africa. The study focuses on eight key stock markets in Africa’s emerging ... -
The day-of-the-week effect in the Nairobi securities exchange: an adaptive market hypothesis perspective
(Strathmore University, 2015)This paper examines the day-of-the-week effect , an anomaly that contravenes the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) . The paper attempts to identify and explain the presence of the ... -
Determinants of adoption of agricultural technology in Kenya: a case of small scale farmers in Kirinyaga
(Strathmore University, 2018)Agricultural technologies are seen as an important route out of poverty in most of the developing countries. However the rate of adoption of these technologies has remained low in most of these countries. This study aim ... -
Determinants of bank profitability
(Strathmore University, 2015)Banks play a crucial role in economic development. For the local community, banks provide access to funding and financial services to both local business and citizens, as well as the money banks invest back into the community ... -
Determinants of Commercial Bank profitability in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-07)The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between bank specific (internal) and macro-economic (external) determinants of banks profitability. This is done by using data of all the banks in Kenya from the ... -
Determinants of economic growth In Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)Economic growth has been a major issue in the world today especially in developing countries. This study examines the determinants of economic growth in Kenya the period 1971-20 II with a particular focus on interest rates, ... -
Determinants of financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
(Strathmore University, 2021)Financial exclusion is the lack of access by clients to appropriate low cost, fair and safe financial products and services. Leyshon and Thrift explained it as the processes that are in place to prevent individuals or a ... -
Determinants of foreign direct investments in developing countries: evidence from Kenya and Nigeria
(Strathmore University, 2017)Foreign direct investment has a direct relationship with technological change, public policy and level of economic activity. However, in some countries with unfavorable conditions such as high levels of corruption and ... -
Determinants of insurance penetration and density in under - developed, developing and developed countries
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)The need for greater Insurance penetration in both life and non-life segments has been underscored by economic surveys. Insurance penetration has remained low not only in Kenya but in Africa as a whole and other under ... -
Determinants of insurance penetration and density in under developed, developing and developed countries
(Strathmore University, 2016)The need for greater Insurance penetration in both life and non-life segments has been underscored by economic surveys . Insurance penetration has remained low not only in Kenya but in Africa as a whole and other under ... -
Determinants of interest rate spreads in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)Numerous variables exogenous to the operations of commercial banks have been touted in academic literature to be impmtant factors causing the typically high interest rate spreads in developing countries. Using data for ... -
Determinants of method of payment in mergers and acquisitions and their agency implications
(Strathmore University, 2021)This study is expected to be useful to industry regulators like competition authorities, tax collection agencies and capital market regulators as it will provide some insight for deeper scrutiny of proposed mergers and ... -
Determinants of non-performing loans in commercial banks in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to determine the macroeconomic and bank specific factors affecting nonperforming loans in commercial banks in Kenya. It aimed at determining the relationship between these factors and nonperfonning ... -
Determinants of savings among the urban poor in Mukuru's informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2014-04)This study sought to probe savings among the dwellers in Mukuru's informal settlements, otherwise known as 'slums' in urban Nairobi. The choice of savings was influenced by literature that is informative of development for ... -
Determinants of stock price - a case study on the Nairobi Stock Exchange
(Strathmore University, 2014-03)Various studies have been conducted to identify variables that influence share price movements such as that done by Karanathassis and Philapaas (1988) which indicated that the share price in Greece was affected by dividends, ... -
Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-12-14)Neoclassical growth accounting literature has shown that total factor productivity has a positive relationship with output. Based on OLS estimation techniques on data for Kenya between the years 2002 and 2013, this study ... -
Determinants that influence financial performance of microfinance institutions in Kenya: case study of Nairobi County
(Strathmore University, 2015)According to (Lafourcade, Isern, Brown, & Mwangi, 2005), microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa include a broad range of diverse and geographically dispersed institutions offering financial services to low income ... -
Determination of Key parameters in Generalized Linear Models for claim reserving - General Insurance
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)Based on Generalized Linear Models, we are able to establish the key parameters to be used for determining the future claim frequency through the adoption of appropriate logical variable selection method given various ... -
Determination of optimal public debt ceiling for Kenya using stochastic control
(Strathmore University, 2018)Public debt is a key economic variable. It is the totality of public and publicly guaranteed debt owed by any level of government to either citizens or foreigners or both. Due to recent debt crises in developed countries ... -
Determine the breaking point of Kenya debt an application of extreme value theory
(Strathmore University, 2017)The aim of the study is to determine the breaking point of Kenyan public debt through the use of Extreme Value Theorem (EVT). EVT focuses on the tail end of distributions to be able to identify maxima and minima points. ...
