IRJFE Issue 96

IRJFE Issue 96

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Issue 96
August, 2012

The Impact of Determinants of Leverage on Capital Structure of Service Companies in Jordan	6-14
Thair Al Shaher

Currency Demand Modeling in Estimating the Underground Economy in Turkey: An Error Correction Framework	15-27
Zeynep Erdin

Comparative Valuation between Islamic and Conventional Mutual Fund	28-34
Irfan Ullah Shah, Junaid Iqbal and Muhammad Faizan Malik

Agenda for Economic, Financial and other Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)	35-42
Sunday Osaretin Igbinosa

The Determinants of Egypts Economic Growth over 1985-2007	43-54
Rasha Hammam, Abeer Elshennawy and William Mikhail

Determinants of Residential Property Prices in Hong Kong: A Cointegration Analysis	55-62
Kenneth Hoi-Ki Chung

A Trading Strategy Based on the Lead Lag Relationship between Futures and Spot Markets and Investor Sentiment	63-79
Li-Hua Lai and Sheng-Lun Li

A Study on Awareness and Utilization of Debit Cards in India	80-89
K. Govindarajan, R. Renganathan and S. Balachandran

An Investigation of the Effect of Aggressive Working Capital Technique on the Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria	90-100
Babatunde R. Yusuf and Khadijah A. Idowu

Impact of Fiscal Policy on the Agricultural Development in an Emerging Economy: Case Study from the South Sulawesi, Indonesia	101-112
Akhmad, Noer Azam Achsani, Mangara Tambunan and Sumedi Andoyo Mulyo

Corporate Governance and the Growth of Small Business Service Firms in India	113-123
Amarjit S. Gill, Harvinder S. Mand and Neil Mathur

On-Us Transactions in Credit Card Market in Turkey and Rational Banks	124-135
Serkan Dilek

Recent Evidence on Concentration and Competition in Turkish Banking Sector	136-142
Fatih Macit

The Application of GARCH and EGARCH in Modeling the Volatility of Daily Stock Returns During Massive Shocks: The Empirical Case of Egypt	143-154
Hassan Ezzat

Forecasting Tourism Expenditure and Growth: A VAR/VECM Analysis for Greece at both Aggregated and Disaggregated Levels	155-167
Andreas G. Georgantopoulos