The study examined the sources of informal finance in aiding climate change adaptation in South eastern Nigeria. Random sampling was adopted in the selection of 6 out of the 9 communities in the study area. From each of these selected communities, 10 crop farmers were randomly selected giving a total number of 60 respondents. Descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency, as well as ...

Employees who are motivated perform their jobs better. IS managers can enhance and leverage the human resource capability of their departments by understanding the role motivation plays in creating a responsive and productive IS staff. This article describes an effective method for managers to identify the motivational issues for individual employees. In addition, it proposes strategies for adm...

A strong theoretical argument for focusing on access to finance is that financial market imperfections can result in large inefficiencies, with firms with productive investment opportunities underinvesting. Lack of access to finance is a frequent complaint of microenterprises, which account for a large share of employment in developing countries. However, assessing the extent to which a lack of...

Access to the Internet at work allows employees to be more effective in their jobs. However, it also gives employees the opportunity to engage in non-productive behavior. Several studies have examined the problem of Internet abuse in the workplace. However, a measure of severity of Internet abuse is still lacking. This research employs a Thurstone scale to create an appropriate measure of sever...

We call a given American option representable if there exists European claim which dominates the payoff at any time and such that values of two options coincide in continuation region option. This concept has interesting implications from probabilistic, analytic, financial, numeric point view. Relying on methods (Math. Finance 24 (2014) 156–172; Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 18 (200...

A. Introduction Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are an important tool of public sector finance in both industrialized and developing countries for three principal reasons. First, central governments have advantages over subnational governments in raising revenue from many types of particularly productive sources, while subnational governments have advantages in providing many types of public...

This paper investigates the effects of financial development on the intensive and extensive margins of countries exports, at different stages of economic development. The paper develops a partial equilibrium model with monopolistic competition. In this model, firms are heterogeneous in terms of productivity and have access to external liquidity. The effect of financial development on the intens...