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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stock market development and economic growth - evidence from Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the stock market development and economic growth by establishing a causal link between them using annual time series data for the period 1990 to 2014. ...
Shariah-stock screening-procedure Shariah-compliant listed-equities in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)
Kenya vision 2030 is the country 's development blue print covering the period 2008 to 2030, it aims at transforming Kenya into an industrialized middle-income country, and among the priority sectors that will see to this ...
The impact of strength of social ties on the economic actions of Roscas - evidence from Nairobi - Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the economic action ( whether for investment or welfare) of rotating and savings credit associations (ROSCAs). It has its main focus on the strength of the social ties between ...
Analyzing the influence of twitter hashtags on the movement of the stock market
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
This paper evaluates the existence of a relationship between a well-known micro-blogging platform, Twitter and the financial market. We particularly consider in a period of six months the daily collection of trending twitter ...
An empirical analysis of the predictability of stock returns using the Price Earnings Ratio and the Price - to - book Ratio - a case study of the Nairobi Stock Exchannge
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
The purpose of this study is to establish whether the Return Performance of the Stocks listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange is predictable using the Price Earnings Ratio and the Price-to-Book Ratio. The two multiples have ...
Monetary policy effectiveness - the role of financial frictions on the effectiveness of the Kenyan Monetary Polilcy
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)
This paper examines the role of credit market frictions on the effectiveness of the Kenyan monitory policy .Following from the credit channel theory, of particular interest is the credit channel of the Kenyan monitory ...