Purpose Street vendors create a vital urban street and significant important part of our areas are streets, they cater to leisure, social functional needs. There many debates concerning vendors; on one hand, there those who argue against them because believe problems should be abolished, the other arguments that defend life. Design/methodology/approach This paper aims identify people's percepti...

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This study examines the relationship between above-market price (or overpricing), along with various housing attributes, and time on the market (TOM). The study covers nearly 4,000 transactions of marketed domestic units of different living tenures, flat sizes, price ranges, and other physical characteristics in the Hong Kong residential property market. The results show that factors such as th...

This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions. Both a statistical and a macroeconomic implementation of the model are performed for the period 1986-2002 with monthly retur...

We describe a dynamic model of financial intermediation in which fundamental characteristics of the economy imply a unique equilibrium path of bank and financial market lending. Yet we also show that economies whose fundamental characteristics have converged may continue to have very different financial structures. Because setting up financial markets is costly in our model, economies that emph...

Indian organisations have transformed organisational learning to face multiple challenges posed by external market conditions, legal and regulatory considerations and internal factors. The way Indian organisations have developed their learning platforms and learning delivery has been instrumental in equipping a global workforce with the required knowledge and skills. This has, in turn, reduced ...

Most of the research on transaction costs in the market microstructure literature focuses on implicit transaction costs. Research on the design of price schedules for explicit transaction fees is rare. This paper analyzes and classifies different price schedules and discusses their application to the market transaction business. The discussion highlights design issues and the need for a structu...