Market Valuation of Human Capital in Nigerian Banks

Portfolio Valuation in Banks

Frequent references are made to the use of portfolio spread rates in managing financial risks in banks, but indications as to the procedures for determining such rates are very scant. The purpose of this article is to present some initial ideas on the subject: a Standard Funding system indicates what each portfolio should have earned, while an Actual Funding system points out what each portfoli...

Calculating human capital : The market based valuation of the human resource

Working Capital Management, Firms- Performance and Market Valuation in Nigeria

This study examines the impact of working capital management on firms’ performance and market value of the firms in Nigeria. A sample of fifty four non-financial quoted firms in Nigeria listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange was used for this study. Data were collected from annual reports of the sampled firms for the period 1995-2009. This result shows there is a significant negative relationship...

Human Capital , Trade Unions and Banks

A process of endogenous human capital formation is analyzed in combination with the existence of trade unions and banks. By lowering opportunity costs for schooling, trade unions provide incentive for human capital investments for parts of the workforce. Imperfect competition in the banking sector creates a self-selection situation favorable for long-term investment giving firms the possibility...

Market Power, Human Capital andGrowth

In this paper we study the economic determinants of the inter-sectoral distribution of skilled workers and the long-run consequences of imperfect competition on growth within an R&D-based growth model with human capital accumulation. We find that steady-state growth is driven only by incentives to accumulate human capital and is independent of scale effects. In the model imperfect competition h...