International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017

  • Forecasting Price Direction, Hedging and Spread Options in Oil Volatility

    Eboka Andrew Okonji, Yerokun Oluwatoyin Mary

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 114-123
    Received: 5 April 2017
    Accepted: 8 October 2017
    Published: 8 November 2017
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    Abstract: The energy market aims to manage risks associated with prices and volatility of the asset. It is a capital intensive market, rippled with a range of chaotic, complex and dynamic interaction among its supply and demand derivatives. Models help users forecast such interactions, to provide investors with empirical evidence of the price direction. Evol... Show More
  • Determinants of Emerging Technology Commercialization: Empirical Evidences from MEMS Technology

    Chunbo Wang, Paulo Bento, Lu Yin

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 124-130
    Received: 5 December 2017
    Published: 6 December 2017
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    Abstract: Currently most of studies on commercialization of the emerging technology considered the context in developed countries like US, Japan, and EU with few research on developing country like China. To fill this gap, taking 112 Chinese Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) enterprises as a sample, this thesis empirically investigated the determinants... Show More
  • Cost and Profit Efficiency of Bangladeshi Commercial Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

    Bellal Hossain Raju Md.

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 131-142
    Received: 9 May 2017
    Accepted: 25 May 2017
    Published: 19 December 2017
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    Abstract: This paper assesses the cost and profit efficiency levels of banks consist of conventional, Islamic Shariah based and state-owned commercial banks in Bangladesh over the period of 2011 to 2015. Basic accounting ratios and stochastic cost and profit approaches originated by stochastic frontier analysis have been used in this study. From the results ... Show More
  • The Asymmetry of the Brain and the Choice of Purchase: An Application of Electroencephalography–EEG Evidence on Consumer Neuroscience Tests

    Cesar A. Salazar Olarte

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 143-148
    Received: 20 October 2017
    Accepted: 8 November 2017
    Published: 20 December 2017
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    Abstract: The main objective of this pilot study was to try to prove by a test of consumer neuroscience, if the activity in the frontal cortex and its asymmetry, could predict the choice of purchasing a product or a service. An exploratory research was performed with 21 subjects, skilled (10 women and 11 men) were collected. Aged between 18 and 53 years, all... Show More
  • Measurement and Evaluation Model of Shipbuilding Production Efficiency

    Shi Guofu, Liu Xiaobing, Xu Yizhuang, Yao Nailong

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 149-161
    Received: 27 December 2017
    Published: 28 December 2017
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    Abstract: How to evaluate the level of the production efficiency and the changes of productivity is important for the shipyard improvement and survive. The efficiency of the shipyard is comprehensively affected by the managing, technical activities and product mix. The causes of inefficiency are hidden somewhere inside of the production system. From these po... Show More
  • The Dynamic Interactions Among Trade Openness and Economic Growth: Evidence from Algeria

    Dalila TALEB

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 162-167
    Received: 3 May 2017
    Accepted: 19 June 2017
    Published: 8 January 2018
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    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to try to measure the impact of the trade openness on the economic growth in Algeria using the annual data for the period (1980¬-2015). In this intent, we considered three openness measures: the ratio of exports to GDP, the ratio of imports to GDP and the ratio of all the exports and the imports to GDP since that, the GDP p... Show More