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Global financial crisis and VaR performance in emerging markets: A case of EU candidate states - Turkey and Croatia
(Zbornik Radova Ekonomskog Fakultet au Rijeci, 2009)
We investigate the relative performance of a wide array of Value at Risk (VaR) models with the daily returns of Turkish (XU100) and Croatian (CROBEX) stock index prior to and during the ongoing financial crisis. In addition ...
Development and future prospects of Islamic banking in Bangladesh
(International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2009)
The objective of this research is to provide a brief analysis of the performance of Islamic banks in Bangladesh. The Islamic banks in Bangladesh continued to show strong growth since its inception in 1983 to June 2007, ...
Exploiting data topology in visualization and clustering of self-organizing maps
(IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2009)
The self-organizing map (SOM) is a powerful method for visualization, cluster extraction, and data mining. It has been used successfully for data of high dimensionality and complexity where traditional methods may often ...
Uncertainty assessment techniques for system availability
(International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 2009)
This paper provides an approach for assessing the uncertainty associated with the estimate of the availability of a two-state repairable system. During the design stage it is often necessary to allocate scarce testing ...
Which factors affect entrepreneurial intention of university students?
(Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009)
Purpose: Fostering entrepreneurship needs a twofold policy that should focus on both the current situation and future prospect of entrepreneurship. Although many scholars and policy makers devote their attention to the ...
Linking account portfolio management to customer information: Using customer satisfaction metrics for portfolio analysis
(Industrial Marketing Management, 2009)
When appropriate variables are used, account portfolio analyses engender a convenient framework for the relationship composition of companies and allow management to reconsider which customers and relationship dimensions ...
Changing face of banks and the evaluation of internet banking in Turkey
(Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 2009)
Banking historically has been a sector based on individual or institutional client service. In today's browser-based competitive finance world, banks need to flourish this client service viewpoint with web-empowered features ...
Measuring corporate social responsibility: A scale development study
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2009)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most prominent concepts in the literature and, in short, indicates the positive impacts of businesses on their stakeholders. Despite the growing body of literature on ...
Islamic banking: a study of customer satisfaction and preferences in non-Islamic countries
(International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2009)
The analysis of their responses revealed a certain degree of satisfaction of many of the Islamic bank’s facilities and products. The respondents expressed their dissatisfaction with some of the Islamic bank’s services. ...
Wavelet-based systematic risk estimation an application on istanbul stock exchange
(International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009)
Systematic risk estimations are broadly used in investment analysis and portfolio management. The popular measure of systematic risk is the CAPM beta. The CAPM states that the expected return on an asset depends upon its ...