Browsing BBSA Research Projects (2017) by Title
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The effect of climate change on the pricing of weather index-based crop insurance in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)The Agricultural sector is a pillar of the economies of many developing countries around the world. In Kenya, the sector contributes an average of 24% to the GDP directly and 27% indirectly through connection to other ... -
Effect of compliance of prudent financial regulation to Kenya's Commercial banks' stability
(Strathmore University, 2017)The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of compliance of prudent financial regulation to Kenya's commercial banks' stability. The study sought to address the following research question: Is there any link between ... -
The Effectiveness of profit warnings in predicting decline in share prices in theNSE: an event study approach.
(Strathmore University, 2017)Profit warnings are issued by companies to inform shareholders that the current year’s profit will be significantly lower than the profit of the previous year or the anticipated profit for the current year (Jensen, 2005). ... -
Empirical analysis on the impact of monetary policy on the growth of Kenya’s manufacturing sector
(Strathmore University, 2017)The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of monetary policy in boosting manufacturing sector growth in Kenya. This paper uses the Vector Autoregression (VAR) Model to measure the impact of monetary policy on ... -
Estimating the cost of traffic congestion in Nairobi (Langata) to the Kenyan economy
(Strathmore University, 2017)This paper tells us what traffic congestion is, its severity in Kenya, specifically Nairobi, and its cost to the Kenyan economy. Traffic congestion affects many sectors in many different ways, and also imposes a cost on ... -
Evolution of risk attitudes for different demographic characteristics with variant circumstances
(Strathmore University, 2017)This study endeavors to determine how risk attitudes in the context of personal business decisions and financial investing of persons from different age groups, gender and of different initially ascribed risk attitudes ... -
An Exploration of the possible impact of commodity futures trading for tea farmers in Limuru to mitigate the price volatility of tea
(Strathmore University, 2017)The research project aimed to show how the volatility of tea prices experienced by the farmer could be mitigated through the introduction of a tea commodity futures. The researched aimed at determining the significance of ... -
Factors affecting the low demand and the penetration of life insurance in Burundi
(2017)There are different factors that affect the demand and the penetration of life insurance. The Republic of Burundi is the Country with the lowest penetration of insurance, both life and nonlife. The study aims at identifying ... -
Finding appropriate loss distributions to insurance data Case study of Kenya (2010-2014)
(Strathmore University, 2017)Obtaining the total amount of claims for a specific period is a vital part of the daily work of insurance companies. This will help in various ways the management in running the company (Jouravlev, 2009). For instance, the ... -
Globalization and equity returns in African frontier markets
(2017)Globalization has significant implications for risk sharing and diversification, cost of capital, market efficiency, financial decisions and macro-economic policy. This study investigates globalization which is measured ... -
Globalization and equity returns in African frontier markets
(Strathmore University, 2017)Globalization has significant implications for risk sharing and diversification, cost of capital, market efficiency, financial decisions and macro-economic policy. This study investigates globalization which is measured ... -
Growing role of Bancassurance in the banking sector: a case of Kenya tier 1 local banks
(Strathmore University, 2017)Different methods of reserving for claim liabilities of an insurer and in particular IBNR have been advanced throughout time. These methods strive to provide an estimate enough to cater for the future liabilities. Therefore ... -
Growing Role of Bancassurance in the Banking Sector: A Case of Kenya Tier 1 Local Banks
(Strathmore University, 2017)The Kenyan market need to mitigate their risks as the levels of insurance penetration is low. Bancassurance which is the integration of banking and insurance has been adopted as a distribution channel of insurance products. ... -
Impact of bank deposit interest rates on consumer expenditure in the East African community
(Strathmore University, 2017)Bank deposit rates are a critical factor in determining consumer expenditure. This study tries to understand the effect that changes of bank deposit rates have over different periods of time in the East African Community ... -
The impact of delinquent loans on the performance of microfinance banks in east Africa
(Strathmore University, 2017)Financial institutions all over the world are faced with the challenge of loan delinquency which has necessitated the need for reviewing lending policies to mitigate the delinquency risk as well as putting in place mechanisms ... -
Impact of derivatives trading on spot markets: price discovery
(Strathmore University, 2017)A derivative security is a financial contract whose value is derived from the value of something else, such as stock price, a commodity price, an exchange rate, an interest rate, or even an index of prices, (Sakar, 2006). ... -
The impact of international trade on Kenya's economic growth
(Strathmore University, 2017)International trade is the exchange of goods and services across different countries that mainly involves the government of that country and usually represents a sizable amount of a country's gross domestic product. However, ... -
The influence of peers on investment decisions: the case of university undergraduates in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)People's choices often look like the choices made by those around them. Such peer effects have been analyzed across different fields. These have been motivated by concerns of herding and financial l market instability which ... -
Insurance banana skins in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)Risk is an aspect that ca n never be done away with. It is both upside and downside. Upside risks are opportunities. On the other hand, downside risks are a ca use of alarm to change things. This research sought out to ... -
Introducing a new coffee futures pricing model for the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(Strathmore University, 2017)This study intends to apply a different pricing model for pricing coffee futures at the Nairobi Securities Exchange and suggest an improvement of the existing pricing model currently used at the NSE. This will be done by ...
