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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 ...
Measuring financial stress - a country specific stress index for Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
The aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis shows how financial tum1oil can be transmitted from advanced to emerging and frontier markets. Most policy makers in emerging economies had little mechanisms to determine ...
The effect of an IPO on the share performance of industry rivals - an event study analysis of the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
The research project analyzes the impact an Initial Public Offering has on the share performance of industry rivals. Access to funds is one of the key processes of firms and an IPO is one of the channels that firms seeking ...
The effect of inflation on stock returns and affirmation of the Fisherian hypotheses
(Strathmore University, 2015-12)
This study basically studies the long-run relationships as well as the dynamic interactions between inflation and stock returns in Kenya. Monthly data from the Nairobi Stock Exchange index and the Consumer Price Index is ...
The relationship between commercial bank’s lending rates and Asset prices in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)
The paper evaluates the existence of a relationship between the lending rates and asset prices in Kenya with an aim of improvement in the policy development. The asset classes are divided into two with the Stock prices ...
Determining the pricing strategy for a continuing care retirement Community in Kenya &evaluating its demand
(Strathmore University, 2015)
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) are a form of long term care insurance that offer retirees with housing and nursing care facilities, along with other desired amenities. Potential entrants into the facility ...
Tax buoyancy - a comparative study between Kenya and South Africa
(Strathmore University, 2015-07)
One of the most important measures of efficiency of any tax system in public finance is tax buoyancy which is simply the total response of tax revenue to changes in national income. Tax revenue in Africa have been relatively ...
A model for inflation dynamics in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)
This paper analyzes the dynamics of inflation in Kenya between 1997 and 2013. The study is done by developing an empirically constant Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The study finds out that exchange rates and money ...
The effect of exchange rate volatility on Kenyan exports to the USA
(Strathmore University, 2015)
This paper empirically investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on aggregate Kenyan exportsto the USA. To investigate this relationship the model used is a traditional export demand function where the proxy for ...
The relative performance of single index versus multifactor models in determining the efficient frontier in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
Since the early 1950s models have been developed to aid wealth allocation in order to optimize returns. This study seeks to compare the relative performance of the single-index models and multifactor models in determining ...