great deal of discussion in the literature about the impressive hotel development in China in the past 20 years (Derbaix & Pham, 1998; Devonport, Biscomb, & Lane, 2008; Echtner & Ritchie, 1993; Fakeye & Crompton, 1991; C Fornell, 1992; Foxall & Goldsmith, 1994; Pine, 2002; Yu & Gu, 2005). Specifically, many interesting issues have become the favorite topics of researchers in this field, including international hotel franchising (De Ruyter, Wetzels, Lemmink, & Mattson, 1997; Devonport, et al., 2008)
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ASSESSING ADVERTISING EFFICIENCY Does the Internet Play a Role? Albena Pergelova, Diego Prior, and Josep Rialp ABSTRACT: This research focuses on a major concern for marketers addressing the claims of inefficiency of spending on advertising. We examine whether the Internet can help increase overall advertising efficiency. Using a sample from the Spanish automobile industry, we combine a nonparametric method—Data Envelopment Analysis—with recent important insights from statistics and econometrics
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Money Importance of Money Money is an essential and basic necessity in a modern economy. In the beginning of human existence, human needs were so simple that they could be satisfied by barter system , i.e., exchange of goods for goods. In baster system, an individual produces some goods in greater quantity than what he could consume and then exchanges the extra units with another individual for something he needed in return. Barter system suffered from lack of double coincidence of wants, lack
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MUTUAL FUNDING: IMPACT ON THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY A comparative study of two mutual funds companies in Kumasi DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES EDMUNDSON LAWRENCE KOBINA 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Over the years in Ghana, the private sector has had it difficult raising capital and adequate funds for investment and other business activities, this led to the undertaking of a number of financial sector reforms by the government. The emergence of mutual
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A Brief History of the International Monetary System Kenneth N. Matziorinis 1. Introduction The international monetary system is the structure of financial payments, settlements, practices, institutions and relations that govern international trade and investment around the world. To understand the international monetary system, we can start by looking at how a domestic monetary system is structured. The Canadian financial system, for instance, is composed of a) a currency; b) a central
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America can be looked at as the equivalent of Barclays when it originated almost 300 years later, while both are prominent now, they each chose different paths to get to where they are now. Barclays In the late 17th century, there were many Goldsmith-Banker businesses that funded the dreams of many entrepreneurs. In 1690 John Freame founded one of these businesses with his partner Thomas Gould. The name “Barclays” became associated with the company when
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CHAPTER NO. 01 1-PROBLEM & ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction In any economy banks play very important role. A bank is a reliable financial institution, which has core business of mobilizing the savings of people for investment purposes. It receives the money from one group and lends to other group of people. So bank performs the duty of financial intermediary. Usually there are two types of banks, conventional banks and Islamic banks. In simple words Islamic banks operate in interest free system
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HAMPTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Course Syllabus - FALL 2011 ECON 201-ALL SECTIONS PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS (MACRO) SEC | CRN | DAYS | TIME | CLASSROOM | INSTRUCTOR | 201-HR | 21507 | TR | 12:30-1:45PM | ST-321 | Sarki, A | 201-02 | 21509 | MWF | 9:00-9:50AM | BU-122 | Ferdnance, T | 201-03 | 21512 | TR | 11:00-12:15PM | BU-101 | Toney, S | 201-05 | 21513 | TR | 9:30-10:45AM | ST-336 | Sarki, A | 201-07 | 21514 | TR | 2:00-3:15PM | BU-101 | Toney, S | 201-09 | 21516 |
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BANKING HABITS OF NIGERIAN RURAL POPULACE: A CASE STUDY OF KUDAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE. By MALACHY, GIMBA SOLOMON (U08BA1132) A Project Submitted to the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree in Business Administration (Banking and Finance). September, 2012. DECLARATION I earnestly declare
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