International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences

Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017

  • Transportation Cost of Agricultural Exports from Gaza Strip: An Exploratory Study

    Khalil A. Elnamrouty

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 276-283
    Received: 3 August 2016
    Accepted: 8 October 2017
    Published: 10 November 2017
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    Abstract: Export transportation costs are one of the major obstructions facing the Palestinian economy. The process of moving agricultural goods from the exporter’s location in the Gaza Strip to the target market involves significant financial costs as well as costs associated with imperfect information, weak infrastructure, lengthy and uncertain delivery ti... Show More
  • Choice Between Domestic and Foreign Debt: A Case Study of Pakistan

    Ghazala Zafar Lashari, Muhammad Akbar, Ruhma Khan

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 284-293
    Received: 28 July 2017
    Accepted: 8 August 2017
    Published: 15 November 2017
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    Abstract: In Pakistan, domestic debt, foreign debt and debt servicing is the most discussed issue among the economists and policy makers. Pakistan has been taking a substantial amount of money in the form of domestic and foreign debt since 1970’s. Most common reason of debt dependency is saving-investment gap and revenue–expenditure gap. To fill these gaps, ... Show More
  • Summarized Results of the Experimental Determination of Heat Losses Through Fixed Supports of Steam Pipelines

    Stefan Kalchev, Petar Kostov, Chavdar Nikolov, Koycho Atanasov

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 294-299
    Received: 12 September 2017
    Accepted: 6 October 2017
    Published: 16 November 2017
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    Abstract: The results of the experimental determination of the heat losses in fixed supports of low, medium and high pressure steam pipelines in firm Lukoil Neftochim Burgas have been summarized. In the conditions of a three-factor experiment, the exponents of the regression equation have been determined. For determination of convective heat exchange coeffic... Show More
  • Study on Exchange Rate Forecasting Using Recurrent Neural Networks

    Yuxi Ye

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 300-303
    Received: 16 November 2017
    Published: 20 November 2017
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    Abstract: It focuses on the problems of forecasting exchange rate that is a nonlinear time series. A dynamics systems approach and the recurrent neural networks (RNN) were employed to modeling this nonlinear time series. The delay time was calculated using mutual information method and embedding dimension was confirmed by false nearest neighbors. The dataset... Show More
  • Study on the Problems of Management Shareholding and the Mixed Ownership

    Gao Li, Song Shanshan

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 304-311
    Received: 16 November 2017
    Published: 20 November 2017
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    Abstract: In recent years, managerial ownership has begun to be used as an incentive mechanism in China. Managerial ownership is one of the ways to realize the mixed ownership reform of state owned enterprises. In this paper, the impact of executive stock ownership on corporate performance of China's state-owned listed companies that mixed ownership has been... Show More
  • Estimating the Optimal Land Management Scale of Big Grain Production Households and Comprehensive Family Farms Based on the Decision Graph

    Fang Luo, Miao Tian, Qingli Xia, Dan Xu, Caihong Sun

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 312-320
    Received: 27 December 2017
    Published: 28 December 2017
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    Abstract: Farmland scale management can bring large scale benefits to producers, promote labour productivity and increase farmers’ income. However, excessive concentration of farmland also has a few shortcomings, such as decreases in intensive farming, farmland productivity, and employment efficiency. Identifying the optimal land management scale is an effec... Show More
  • The Factors Affecting Business Cycle Volatility Based on Financial Market Size and Country Size Multiple-factor Analysis

    Shi Haoran, An Gang

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 321-326
    Received: 27 December 2017
    Published: 28 December 2017
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    Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between business cycle volatility and country size and financial markets size within certain countries, using annual data for a sample of some typical countries having advanced financial market and those of China over 2000-2015. Then analyze the significance level of explaining varia... Show More
  • The Experience and Reference on PPP Development in Germany

    Su Guo, Huijie Li, Yang Guo, Ke Gao

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
    Pages: 327-333
    Received: 27 December 2017
    Published: 28 December 2017
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    Abstract: At present, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model is vigorously promoted in China and it is becoming an important way of government financing. Though the amount of PPP projects in China is enormous, there are a lot of problems to be solved. At the same time, German PPP develops rapidly in recent years though it started relatively late. In the past... Show More