What Drives Consumer Satisfaction in Using Islamic Financial Technology?

What Drives Contagion? Trade, Neighborhood and Financial Links

This paper evaluates the relative importance of three contagion channels: direct trade, neighborhood effects and financial competition in banking centers. Because these channels are highly correlated, they could easily be confused. However, policy implications are very different depending on the channel and therefore disentangle which channels are more relevant is an important task. This paper ...

What drives international financial flows? Politics, institutions and other determinants

This paper uses a large panel of financial flow data from banks to assess how institutions affect international lending. First, employing a time varying composite institutional quality index in a fixed-effects framework, the paper shows that institutional improvements are followed by significant increases in international finance. Second, cross-sectional models also show a strong effect of init...

What Drives Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction? an Empirical Test Using Structural Equation Modeling

Patient satisfaction determinants in emergency departments (EDs) have for decades been heavily investigated. Despite great focus, a lack of consensus about which parameters are deemed most important remains. This study proposes an integrated framework for ED patient satisfaction, testing four key hypotheses concerning effects between the latent constructs wait time, information delivery, safety...

What Drives the Vacancy Rate for Information Technology Workers?

What Drives Technology Innovation Among The Emerging Chinese Enterprises?

In the light of rapid development of technology/knowledge intensive firms arising from the emerging economy of China in recent time, this paper is aimed at developing an analytical framework, based on the institutional theory and resource-based view, to evaluate the drivers and antecedents of technology innovation among Chinese emerging multinational enterprises (MNEs). Use of case study approa...