Browsing BBSA Research Projects (2017) by Title
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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 ... -
Macroeconomic factors and the predictability of stock returns in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)The stock market is an anchor to the financial l sector, providing a platform for user s and suppliers of financial instruments for investment purposes in the stocks of companies. In a well-functioning market investors ... -
Modeling heat-related mortality based on greenhouse emissions in OECD countries
(Strathmore University, 2017)Greenhouse emissions by human activities are known to irreversibly increase global temperatures through the greenhouse effect. This study sought to propose a mortality model with sensitivity to heat-change effects as one ... -
Modelling healthcare financing in Kenya [the green path model - gpm]
(Strathmore University, 2017)This study involves modelling healthcare financing in Kenya. The 2001 Abuja Declaration that requires governments to allocate at least fifteen percent (15%) of their total budgets to health and the universal $60 health per ... -
Modelling longevity risk using Lee-Carter model
(Strathmore University, 2017)Longevity risk is one of the remaining frontiers challenging modern financial markets and financial engineering. It is a major policy issue for governments around the world driven by the increase in the proportion of the ... -
Perception of microinsurance as a risk management tool for small holder farmers in Limuru, Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)The aim of this study was to determine the perception of small holder farmers in Limuru towards microinsurance as a risk management tool for the risks they face. The purpose is to identify the gap that exists between what ... -
Pricing of climate change catastrophe bonds in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)Catastrophe bonds have become popular with insurance companies, world over, since their invention in 1996 because of their ability to hedge the insurer against catastrophic risks. With increasing cost and burden on the ... -
A proposed model mortality table for the Rwandese
(Strathmore University, 2017)African countries have had the challenge of lacking country-specific published mortality tables. Up to date there exists only two countries in the continent that have managed to achieve this milestone and these are Kenya ... -
The relationship between the type of management and decisions to invest in local or foreign assets: the case of university endowment funds
(Strathmore University, 2017)Universities are known to follow different models when making asset allocation decisions such employing external fund managers to manage asset allocation strategies and manage their investments. At other times the university ... -
Relationship between volatility of stock prices and the level of stock prices; a case study on Kenya bourse.
(Strathmore University, 2017)The study investigates the relationship between stock price level and the deviation of the stock prices of selected listed companies at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Kenya. It seeks to understand given the stock ...
