SU+ Digital Repository: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 2010
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Stress testing of insurance firms in Kenya against interest rate risk
(Strathmore University, 2017)The study was focused on researching the impact a change in interest rates has on the fixed income portfolio, specifically the government securities. It concentrated on securities with maturities of less than or equal to ... -
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 ... -
Determining the most suitable method of IBNR reserve estimation in the event of varying development patterns.
(Strathmore University, 2017)In general insurance reserving, it is assumed in many cases that the losses in each accident year develop the same way. This makes the chain ladder method in general a good method to estimate general insurance claims ... -
Chronic disease management programs on health insurance profitability in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)Chronic diseases have been a real problem in Kenya and in the entire world. Most of these diseases are non-communicable and affect the population towards old age. This chronic diseases if not well managed may lead to acute ... -
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 ... -
Construction of multidimensional poverty index of Kenya using the Alkire-Foster method
(Strathmore University, 2017)In this paper, we use one specification of the Alkire-Foster approach, which is referred to as the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), to calculate the poverty index of Kenya. This index was computed for 104 countries ... -
Impact of demographic changes on equity returns in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)Unprecedented changes in demographic structure can have significant impact on real economic activity and more so the capital market. For example; the baby boom era in the U.S, after World War II, was accompanied by a general ... -
Forecasting equity prices for selected companies at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(Strathmore University, 2017)Information asymmetry is the main cause of uncertainty in security exchanges all over the world. There are “informed investors” and “uninformed investors” with the latter having imperfect information. Due to this uncertainty, ... -
Industry portfolios, information diffusion and the predictability of stock returns in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)This paper tests the hypothesis that stock return predictability exists in the Kenyan market. In particular, it investigates whether in the presence of gradual information diffusion, which is as a result of investors’ ... -
Impact of oil prices on the exchange rate in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2017)The aim of this study is to estimate the impact of global oil prices on the exchange rate of Kenya for a monthly series from April 2000- April 2016. The modelling exercise follows 3 steps. In first step, the paper investigates ... -
Stock market development and economic growth in African frontier markets
(Strathmore University, 2017)There are three perspectives that have been used to explain the relationship between financial development and economic growth: the finance-led growth hypothesis, the growth driven finance hypothesis and the bi-directional ...
