September 2013

Risk management practices and attitude of Pakistani Islamic banking system employees

  Financial institutes are considered to be one of the important role playing sectors in the financial establishment and economic growth of any country. Banks are part of this sector. In country like Pakistan, we have two types of banking system: one is conventional banking system and the other is Islamic banking system. This study concentrates on the Islamic banking system. Risk is one of the important factors...

Author(s):   Naveed Azeem Khattak, Khashif-Ur-Rehman, Wasim Ullah and Majeed Ullah  

September 2013

Regional spillover research and development investment: A geographically weighted regression approach

  Investments in research and development (R&D) have been identified as a major engine of growth by recent endogenous models so many studies have investigated the determinant and intensity. The benefit of acquiring R&D spillovers is that spillovers lead to improved efficiency of existing factors of production. Since International technology spillover is a major source of technological progress for both...

Author(s):   Saeed Rasekhi, Shahrzad Anousheh, Homayoun Ranjbar and Maryam Moghimi  

September 2013

The effects of oil price shocks on real GDP in Iran

  In this paper, the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on GDP have been investigated by co-integration analysis in Iran economy during the period 1960-2010. We used Hodrick-Prescott filtering to separate positive shocks from negative shocks. The results showed that in long run the negative shocks have stronger effects on output than positive ones that can have damaging repercussions on economic growth. The...

Author(s):   Abbas Rezazadehkarsalari, Fateme Haghiriand Alireza Behrooznia    

September 2013

Investigation into the process of providing Office Accommodation for National State Departments in South Africa

  The National Department of Public Works has the responsibility of providing office accommodation to all state departments nationally, The objectives of the paper are to establish a base for evaluating the performance of the process and secondly investigate the performance against this base. Critical success factors were found to be: Better site search and space management, Effective maintenance policy,...

Author(s):   Douw Boshoff and Manyane Chidi