Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -infected adults and children in Africa, diarrheal disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the effectiveness of provision and home-based reinforcement ...

Pension schemes are prone to numerous risks that could affect the funds resulting in payments different from those that were guaranteed on entrance into the scheme. This study sought to measure the idiosyncratic risk in a ...

This project seeks to determine the X-efficiencies ofboth life and non-life insurance companies in Kenya. It also establishes whether the X-efficiency ofthese insurance companies is affected by the type of business (life ...

This paper tests for the purchasing power parity condition in selected developing countries in Africa, that is; Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria . The purchasing power parity condition is widely used as a predictor of future ...

This paper explores the implementation of an intertemporal asset pricing model with stochastic volatility. This model is applied to equity asset pricing at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Johannesburg Stock ...

Stock market plays a very important role in economic growth and development. It is a center of network transactions where buyers and sellers of securities meet at a specified price. Movement of stock markets is an important ...

The main goal of any banking institution is to maintain profitable from its operations to ensure its sustainability and continued growth. Banks generate their profits mainly from providing loan facilities to its customers ...

The study seeks to evaluate dynamic linkages between stock prices and bank lending behavior prevalent in Kenya. As such the focal variables are loans to the private sector and share prices. However, because of the existence ...

The retirement income an employee can anticipate is greatly contingent on their salary, contributions, investment strategies and consequently investment returns. Nonetheless, the contributions along with the interest earned ...