Problem Statement: Interest rate capping has been seen as a threat to the improved profitability of banks in Kenya and hence need for diversify their income sources. However, ratio gross non-performing loans deteriorated from 12.7 percent December 2018 12.5 2019 14.5 2020. Purpose: This study sought establish influence product diversification, functional diversification mergers on financial per...

This paper pilots an approach for using trademark data to study regional diversification. Bridging the respective literatures, we develop a trademarking-intensity measure that can shed new light on how different regions diversify while also accounting changing industrial structures and income levels (regional gross domestic product). The reveals density has moderate effect trademarking intensit...

Abstract In this paper we present new empirical evidence on the relationship between exporting experience and duration of exports at firm-product-destination level. We find that direct effect export flow survival is negative. However, when include interactions firm diversification measures, becomes positive. This suggests more experienced firms launch risky flows which increases probability fai...

Natural products, many of which are decorated with essential sugar residues, continue to serve as a key platform for drug development. Adding or changing sugars attached to such natural products can improve the parent compound's pharmacological properties, specificity at multiple levels, and/or even the molecular mechanism of action. Though some natural-product glycosyltransferases (GTs) are su...