IRJFE Issue 64

IRJFE Issue 65

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Issue 65
April, 2011

Innovative Clusters in Regional Economy	7-11
Natalia Klimova

Do Public Education Expenditures Really Lead to Economic Growth? Evidence from Turkey	12-24
Nurtac Yildirim, Hulya Deniz and Aycan Hepsag

Largest Blockholding and Firm Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy	25-34
Afzalur Rashid

The Effect of the European Union on Human Development	35-42
Serdar Kurt and Mesut Savrul

Corporate Governance and Earnings Informativeness: Evidence from Iran	43-50
Mehdi Sarikhani and Mahdi Ebrahimi

EVA® or Traditional Accounting Measures; Empirical Evidence from Iran	51-58
Mehdi ArabSalehi and Iman Mahmoodi

A Veblenian Analysis of the American Economy during 2001-2008	59-71
Adil H. Mouhammed

Assessing the Risk and Performance of the GCC Banking Sector	72-81
Ritab Al-Khouri

An Empirical Analysis and Comparative Study of Credit Risk Ratios between Public and Private Sector Commercial Banks in India	82-92
Somanadevi Thiagarajan and A. Ramachandran

Testing the Weak-Form Efficiency of Amman Stock Exchange	93-97
Mahmoud Ali Jaradat and Hussein Ali Al-Zeaud

Loan Loss Provisioning in the Commercial Banking System of Barbados: Practices and Determinants	98-111
Roland Craigwell and Wayne Elliott

Asymmetric GARCH value at risk of QQQQ	112-123
Yongchern Su, Chihsien Lin and Peiwen Chen

Venture Capitalist's Monitoring through Board Membership and the Performance of IPO Firms: Empirical Evidence from France	124-133
Amina Hamdouni

Reforming International Financial System: Post Keynesian Perspective	134-144
N. Zeynep Ökten

Islamic Financial Intermediation: Equity, Efficiency and Risk	145-160
Khadidja khaldi and Amina Hamdouni