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Effects Of Information Exposure, Emotions, And Self-Efficacy On Risk Perception And Travel Intention During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Chunsheng Jin

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Living in the information age, people acquire knowledge from various sources. These resources can play key roles in individuals’ perceptions during disease outbreaks. Especially amid COVID-19, risk perceptions are critical in determining individuals’ behavioral intentions. Researchers have investigated risk perceptions related to numerous diseases (e.g., swine flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, the Zika virus, and Ebola). However, few tourism studies have focused on health risks. Different from the above-mentioned illnesses, the relatively new virus of COVID-19 could have unique effects on individuals’ risk perceptions and behavioral intentions; the disease has been spreading worldwide for more than …

Does The Tendency Of Loss Aversion Depend On The Level Of Competition? Evidence From Multilevel Esports Tournaments, Zeqing Mao

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This dissertation investigates the relationships between the level of experience, the magnitude of payoffs, and the significance of loss aversion within the context of esports. In the behavioral economics literature, loss aversion describes why individuals prefer avoiding losses to obtaining equivalent gains depending on a reference point. While previous studies predominantly capitalize on experimental methods to examine how the significance of loss aversion is affected by market experience and payoff magnitude, there is also a growing body of research that examines the behavioral properties of loss aversion outside laboratory environments, with sport being one of the most utilized settings. This …

Trading The Days Vs. Days Of Trading: An Empirical Literature Survey On Calendar Anomalies Across Markets, Mariam Ashraf Kiryakos

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This thesis provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical review of over five decades of research on two of the most examined calendar anomalies: the day-of-the-week and weekend effect. The expansive literature is classified into five different phases to demonstrate and review the evolution of research on these two seasonal anomalies. It also reconciles empirically the seemingly contradicting evidence documented by prior studies by adopting the lens of Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH) and conducting a cross-market analysis on the two calendar anomalies using the headline stock market indices of the ten largest economies by GDP as of 2019. The main methodology …

Unlocking The Value Of Small And Medium Enterprises, Ahmed Taha

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The role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in economic growth and development is an undeniable fact in the global economy. In emerging and developed economies, SMEs may contribute to more than 90% of the total enterprises. These businesses are a dominant source of job creation, innovation and growth foundation stemming from their competitive structure, technological adaptability and resilience to economic crises. Despite their significant contribution to the economic development and growth, there is not sufficient research that covers SMEs’ financial activity, liquidity, profitability and valuations. In this thesis, I introduce an Electronic Valuation Platform that provides a sufficient research …

An Examination Of The Determinants Of Optimal Corporate Credit Hegde: Perspectives From Firms Listed In Djia30 And Nasdaq100, Dina Rofael

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Raising number of corporate defaults could threaten the financial stability, thus modelling credit risk is a key ingredient of financial stability analysis. This paper tries to answer a specific question regarding the drivers of this risk: idiosyncratic risk (industry-specific or firm-specific) and/or systematic risk (macro-economic specific). As a first step, the paper estimates the optimal hedge ratio based on the interest coverage ratio, that acts as a measure for the probability of default. Against this background, the paper applies one of the fundamental-based models of credit risk, known as hybrid model after estimating the proposed indicator variable. The suggested model …

Stock Market Manipulation Detection Using Continuous Wavelet Transform & Machine Learning Classification, Sarah Youssef

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Stock market manipulation detection is important for both investors and regulators. Being able to detect stock manipulation and preventing it gives investors the confidence in the market fairness and integrity. It also helps maintaining liquidity of the stocks and market efficiency. Implementing data mining algorithms in manipulation detection is a relatively recent technique but in the past few years there has been an increasing interest in it's applications in this domain. The benefit of monitoring manipulative trade behavior is that it can be implemented on live feed of stock data, which saves a lot of time in detecting stock price …

An Intelligent Market Cycle Detection System, Michael Azer

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The detection of stock market cycles has attracted the attention of finance scholars and market practitioners. Accurately identifying the direction of a market can significantly increase the returns of investors. Despite this importance, conventional methodologies in the literature have predominantly attempted to evaluate the effect of subsets of factors as precedents to stock market cycles and with little agreement on what constitutes critical factors. There seems to be a lack in the literature for a comprehensive study that examines a multitude of factors at the same time on the S&P500 as the laboratory. Factors are categorized into: political events, economic …

Return Migration And Entrepreneurship In Egypt, Shorouk Fouda

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Many Egyptians are currently choosing to emigrate in pursuit of benefits such as; education, professional development, acquisition of new skills and accumulation of savings. Although this was previously viewed as having a damaging effect to a country’s economy through the loss of most talented and ambitious nationals, more pertinent economic views suggest possible instances of brain circulation and gain upon the return of a national to their home country. In some cases, gains of return migration are unlocked in the form of entrepreneurial behavior; as a result of accumulation of financial and human capital. In this research, both quantitative and …

E-Marketingu, Leomir Krasniqi

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Kjo temë hulumton përdoruesit e marketingut në përgjithësi, respektivisht e-marketingun në vendin tonë si dhe aspektin teorik e shkencor. Hipotezat në lidhje me përdorimin e rrjeteve sociale të cilat janë formuluar bazuar në marketingu elektronik dhe marketingun digjital, kryesisht përdorimi i rrjeteve sociale siç janë: facebook, instagram, snapchat, tiktak, etj. Këto hipoteza janë testuar duke përdorur formën e anketimit, ku janë anketuar 54 biznese të ndryshme. Konstatoj se e-marketing është vetëm një pjesë e aktiviteteve të e-biznesit të një organizate. E-marketing është përdorimi i teknologjisë së informacionit për aktivitetin e marketingut, dhe proceset për krijimin, komunikimin, ofrimin, dhe shkëmbimin e …

Roli I ‘’Ndikuesve’’ Në Vendimet Për Blerje Të Produkteve Të Kozmetikës, Erda Rrmoku

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Industria globale e kozmetikës po zhvillohet vazhdimisht. Ajo po karakterizohet nga një rritje e rregullt dhe konkurrencë e lartë. Në të njëjtën kohë, për ndërmarrjet e shumta, inovacioni duket se është mjeti i rritjes. Punimi thekson inovacionin e produktit si një faktor thelbësor, i cili ndikon në përparësitë konkurruese të secilës prej produkteve kozmetike. Duke u përpjekur të mbesim në hap me zvhillimin e teknologjisë, mediat po ndryshojnë nga viti në vit dhe po kthehemi më shumë drejt mediave në sferën online. Kjo u shëndrrua në një nga burimet parësore për t’i kuptuar informacionet, e sidomos përdorimi i rrjeteve sociale. …

Motivimi I Inovacionit Dhe Ndërmarrësisë Në Ndërmarrjet E Vogla Dhe Tê Mesme (Nvm) Përmes Inkubatorëve Të Biznesit Në Prishtinë, Xhezahir Fazliu

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Inkubatorët e biznesit kanë treguar me kohën që motivojnë inovacionin dhe ndërmarrësinë në ndërmarrjet e vogla dhe të mesme. Ky studim është fokusuar në motivimin e inovacionit dhe ndërmarrësisë përmes inkubatorëve të biznesit në ndërmarrjet e vogla dhe të mesme në Prishtinë.

Qëllimi i këtij studimi është të eksplorojë mjedisin e NVM-ve në Prishtinë, duke përfshirë pengesat e inovacionit me të cilat përballen dhe të shqyrtojë se si inkubatorët mund të zbatohn për të përmirësuar situatën e tyre aktuale.

Për të kryer këtë studim përdor një qasje e metodave të përziera, e cila përdori të dy metodat sasiore (pyetësorin e …

Developing A Basic Formal Supply Chain Ontology To Improve Communication And Interoperability, David Morrow

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Information is crucial to supply chain performance because it is used to make decisions and trigger actions. Organizations across world-class supply chains increasingly use information technology to analyze and process supply chain data. However, supply chain management lacks a common language, making information exchange difficult. An ontology can provide a standardized framework that organizes a given knowledge domain. This research proposes a common language for developing a supply chain ontology that can be built into a basic formal ontology understood by both humans and computers. According to current research, an established and widely used supply chain framework is a good …

Stock Prediction Using Natural Language Processing Sentiment Analysis On News Headlines During Covid-19, Mina Ibrahim

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Stock prediction based on NLP sentiment analysis is one of the most researched topics due to the revenues they generate for investors. Researchers have used various tools to achieve this, especially fundamental and technical analysis based on historical data helped to achieve this target. Due to the technological advancement and abundance of data, the introduction of machine learning tools accelerated that approach. However, as the public mood affects the stock market, the need for another analysis emerged. Natural language processing sentiment analysis on data from various sources was able to capture public events and moods. NLP is one of the …

Examining The Influence Of Source Dependence On Supplier Performance In The Usaf Organic Supply Chain, Thomas A. Counter

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The purpose of this study is to examine the U.S. Air Force's dependence toward sole sourcing and how that influences procurement outcomes in terms of supplier performance. This research used linear regression to explain the effect of source dependence and supplier size on performance categories for 326 suppliers. The five supplier performance categories in the study included timeliness, cost control, quality, business relations, and regulatory compliance. The research found that the USAFs dependence on sole sourcing had a small but statistically significant influence on all five aspects of supplier performance, with timeliness being the most adversely impacted.

Stock Markets Performance During A Pandemic: How Contagious Is Covid-19?, Yara Abushahba

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Background and Motivation: The coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, the subsequent policies and lockdowns have unarguably led to an unprecedented fluid circumstance worldwide. The panic and fluctuations in the stock markets were unparalleled. It is inarguable that real-time availability of news and social media platforms like Twitter played a vital role in driving the investors’ sentiment during such global shock.

Purpose:The purpose of this thesis is to study how the investor sentiment in relation to COVID-19 pandemic influenced stock markets globally and how stock markets globally are integrated and contagious. We analyze COVID-19 sentiment through the Twitter posts and investigate its …

Impact Of Covid Responses On Brand Performance, Emy Rezkalla

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The main objective of this study is to understand and evaluate whether COVID responses have a significant positive impact on brand performance. Accordingly, the proposed conceptual model focused on the top four COVID-19 responses: donations in cash, donations in kind, customer service, and employers/suppliers and evaluated the impact of each proposed response on brand value, brand growth, and brand ranking in 2020 versus 2019.

The research question of this paper is, Do COVID responses (customer service, employers/suppliers, donations in kind, and donations in cash) have a significant positive impact on brand performance (brand value, brand growth, and brand ranking vs. …

Ndikimi I Odës Ekonomike Të Kosovës Në Ekonominë E Vendit 2015-2021, Migena Sejdiu

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Oda Ekonomike e Kosovës është ka qenë dhe ështëgjithmonë e përkushtuar ta fuqizojë rolin e sektorit privat në funksion të zhvillimit të qëndrueshëm ekonomik në vazhdimsi. Për ta mundësuar këtë, krahas shërbimeve që ofron, në vazhdimësi informon dhe kshillon biznesetlidhur me zhvillimet ekonomike në vend dhe i adreson çështjet me rëndësi tek institucionet relevante, që janë përgjegjëse për mbrojtjen e tyre. Oda ekonomike ka rëndësi të veqantë në përkrahjen dhe stimulimin e zhvillimit të biznesit dhe të ekonomisë në vend në pergjithësi. Rritja dhe zhvillimi i bizneseve pamundësohet nga sfidat të ndryshme, jo të favorshëm i të bërit biznes prandaj …

Format Motivuese Që Ndikojnë Në Menaxhimin E Burimeve Njerëzore Rast Studimi - Hil Limited, Emine Syla

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Ky hulumtim sqaron temën për faktorët motivues që ndikojnë në menaxhimin e burimeve njerëzore në një kompani jashtë vendit. Detyra themelore e menaxhmentit është shfrytëzimi efektiv i burimeve njerëzore për arritjet e objektivave organizative. Menaxhimi i personelit ka të bëjë me organizimin e burimeve njerëzore në një mënyrë të atillë për të marrë maksimumin e prodhimit në ndërmarrje dhe për të zhvilluar talentin e njerëzve në punë me kënaqësinë më të plotë. Motivimi i punonjësve është një nga çështjet kryesore me të cilat përballet çdo organizatë. Detyra kryesore e çdo menaxheri është të motivojë vartësit e tij ose të krijojë …

Faktorët Motivues Për Punonjësit E Kompanisë Newco Ferronikeli Complex L.L.C., Emira Krasniqi Vela

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Menaxhimi i Burimeve Njerëzore po bëhet gjithnjë e më i rëndësishëm në biznes në ditët e sotme, sepse njerëzit dhe njohuritë e tyre janë aspektet më të rëndësishme që ndikojnë në produktivitetin e kompanisë. Një nga aspektet kryesore të Menaxhimit të Burimeve Njerëzore është motivimi dhe matja e kënaqësisë së punonjësve. Kompanitë duhet të sigurohen që kënaqësia e punonjësve është e lartë në mesin e punëtorëve, gjë që është një parakusht për rritjen e produktivitetit. Ky punim analizon efektin e motivimit të punonjësve në organizatë dhe llojet e ndryshëm të motivimeve. Gjithashtu punimi hedh drite mbi atë që e shtyn …

The Role Of The Top Management Team In Orchestrating Big Data Analytics For Competitive Advantage, Sujatha Rayburn

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In today's big data era, the recognition of big data analytics (BDA) as a competitive differentiator is making companies invest heavily in its potential. However, for most companies, this requires a significant transformation that needs to be led from the top. Thus, the top management team's (TMT) managerial resources will be key to how BDA resources and existing BDA ordinary capabilities are further orchestrated as dynamic capabilities. This study grounded in the Upper Echelons theory, the Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (DMC), and Resource Orchestration frameworks sought to understand the impact of the managerial resources of cognition, human and social capital on …

Roli I Arsimit Në Zhvillimin Ekonomik Të Vendit, Adelina Gashi

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Arsimimi është konsideruar gjerësisht si një instrument udhëheqës i rritjes ekonomike nëpërmjet kontributit të tij në ndërtimin e kapaciteteve të kapitalit human. Përfitimet nga arsimi nuk shihen vetëm për individin e shkolluar, por edhe për ekonominë si një e tërë. Në këtë kontekst, studime të ndryshme, përgjithësisht të shekullit XX, kanë studiuar ndikimin e arsimit në rritjen ekonomike. Zhvillimi i teknologjisë gjatë atyre viteve solli, ndër të tjera, rritjen e numrit të të arsimuarve, me 200 herë më shumë se në vitet 1990 (Schofer & Meyer, 2005). Analiza dhe studime të shumta janë kryer rreth përfitimeve që sjell arsimi, mbi …

Sistemi I Sigurise Ne Kompani, Fisnik Dernjani

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Ne kete punim trajtohen ceshte te sigurise se kompanive. Nuk ka një zgjidhje të përhershme kur bëhet fjalë për sigurimin e të dhënave tuaja, por kastrategji për të minimizuar dëmin nëse kompania juaj sulmohet ndonjëherë. Duke qënë se të dhënat janë një nga burimet më të rëndësishme që ka një kompani – të cilat drejtojnë ekonominë globale dhe mbajnë organizatat në punë – do ishte më mire që ju të përfshiheni në diskutimin e sigurisë së të dhënave menjëherë.

Të dhënat janë elementi kryesor i shumicës së bizneseve sot dhe vëllimi i të dhënave vazhdon të rritet me 50% në …

Ndikimi R&D Dhe Inovacioneve Në Zhvillimin E Ndërmarrësisë, Laura Kryemadhi

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Për të ecur përpara në një botë konkurruese, çdo kompani duhet të gjejë një kënd unik për t'u dalluar nga turma. Por inovacioni nuk është kurrë i lehtë - dhe nëse duhet bërë një hap të madh përpara, duhet të kuptohet se është një proces i çrregullt, i paparashikueshëm, i paepur. Risia e suksesshme e ndërmarrësve ka të bëjë me mësimin nga gabimet e tyre, këmbënguljen para vështirësive, të ri-mendojnë biznesin e tyre përballë përçarjes. Ndonjëherë do të thotë të bëjnë diçka më mirë që bën dikush tjetër. Shumë studiues besojnë se ndërmarrjet e bazuara në njohuri përpiqen të mbijetojnë …

Roli I Informacionit Të Kontabilitetit Në Menaxhimin E Punëve. Rast Studimi Ndërmarrja“Banja E Kllokotit Fabrika E Ujit Mineral & Co2 Sh.P.K, Ariana Hoxha

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Shumë njerëz mund të kuptojnë shumë mirë botën e biznesit, mund të kuptojnë pjesën e parashikimeve financiare, kodimin, dizajnin, por kjo nuk do të thotë shumëçka. Edhe nëse jemi të mirë në të gjitha aspektet, gjë që është e pamundur, nuk mundet një njeri i vetëm t'i ketë të gjitha aftësitë e duhura. Zotërimi i informacionit të kontabilitetit të plotë, të saktë dhe në kohën e duhur është jetike në mënyrë që të ketë rritje të vazhdueshme në tregje konkurruese. Ky është edhe qëllimi i këtij punimi, që të ndihmojë që kontabiliteti të mos shikohet vetëm si proces për regjistrimin …

Positioning Customer Service Through Customer Journey Mapping In Service Consumption And Recovery, Dan Jin

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Customer journey mapping is a marketing research tool that has increasingly captured marketers’ attention over the past decades by helping commercial businesses understand customers’ motivations and behaviors. Despite acknowledging the importance of customer experiences, previous literature has generally focused on the firm’s response (supply-side) to the customer. This often considers the service provider’s efforts in the production of goods and services using Goods-Dominant-Logic (GDL), and facilitation with the customer with Service-Dominant-Logic (SDL). However, supply-side logic has largely ignored the customer responses (demand-side) regarding the service operations that appear to be an important function in customer journey mapping. Customers’ demand-side logic …

There’S More Than Meets The I(Dentity): A Multidimensional View Of Identity Threat, Christina B. Hymer

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This dissertation provides a multiple identity perspective to how people experience challenges towards their identities ("identity threats"). While research on identity threat has normally focused on identity threat in relation to a single identity, my dissertation challenges this assumption by examining how connections between multiple identities (e.g., professional, spouse) affect how people experience identity threats. I provide a review of identity threat research, after which I establish an intrapersonal identity network view of identity threat that considers how the centralization of a threatened identity, as well as the density of one’s identity network in terms of enhancing and conflicting relationships, …

The Conceptualization Of Women’S Empowerment By Microlenders In Egypt And Its Link To Sustainable Development, Yasmina Abdellatif

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This study examines how microlenders in Egypt conceptualize women’s empowerment and how they see it contributing to achievement of the UN sustainable development goals. Ten Egyptian microlenders were interviewed to understand how they defined and assessed empowerment, the strategies they used to support empowerment, and which sustainable development goals they felt their programs were addressing. Results revealed that, overall, microlenders sought to empower women in economic, social, psychological, and familial ways, and that they used indicators to measure empowerment under each area. They also supported empowerment through mentoring, training and follow-up with their beneficiaries, and by working to include men. …

Why Do Tourists Accept Lodging Through Accommodation Sharing Platforms? Model Development And Model Comparison, Ge Zhu

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The P2P accommodation sharing market has emerged as a disruptive innovation as it has exponentially expanded globally, even though this market is still emerging and has not been used by most people. This study investigates why tourists accept the sharing platforms and how to promote this service. A literature review on innovation adoption models was conducted to select a proper theoretical framework to investigate travelers’ motivation for using Airbnb. According to model-evaluation principles and literature analysis, this self-efficacy-based value adoption model (SVM) was selected, which is derived from social cognitive theory’s reciprocal determination. Based on the SVM, an extended SVM …

Three Essays On Corporate Governance And Financial Reporting Quality, Hyo Jin Yoon

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Corporate governance broadly refers to the oversight activities undertaken by internal and external actors to assure a fair distribution of cash flows and wealth transfers among the contracting parties. One of the most important functions of corporate governance is to ensure the integrity of the financial reporting process. A substantial body of work highlights the role of corporate governance mechanisms in curtailing earnings management that stems from managerial opportunism. Prior research has also found a direct link between weak corporate governance and financial misstatements and reporting frauds. While the effects of governance mechanisms on corporate reporting quality are well documented …

Information Production And Price Discovery In The Syndicated Loan Market, Yafei Zhang

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My dissertation studies information production and price discovery in the syndicated loan market. Over the past twenty years, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and the market-flex model have changed the landscape of the loan market. In the first chapter, I document that CLOs make up more than 60% of the investments in syndicated loans in recent years. A syndicated loan is in the portfolios of dozens of CLOs and they often disagree on the value of the loan. I examine how the disagreement affects the trading behavior of CLOs and the loan illiquidity in the secondary market. I find that such …