The study specifically described the socio-economic status of the people involved in the production, distribution and consumption of convenience foods in Lafia urban of Nasarawa State. It identified the factors that influence the entry into convenience food enterprise, factors necessitating the demand and supply of the products and examined the costs and returns of three convenience foods. The ...

E nergy is one of the main and essential factors in economic growth. Electricity as one of the most important resources of energy supply for economic sectors on one hand, and as an index of welfare, on the other hand, is one of the economic development benchmarks. The growth of GDP will increase the demand for energy resources, including electricity. Hence, policymakers should pay at...

In this paper, we present a new predictive hybrid model using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and the artificial neural network (ANN) to reduce the bullwhip effect of demand in supply chain to obtain a real amount of final customer demand. Also, we compare our result with more comprehensive sample of previous research to extend the scope of our study. In this new research our methodology is c...

Safe assets are demanded as stores of value (to smooth consumption inter-temporally) and collateral facilitate credit intra-temporally). Some supplied publicly (government bonds) some privately (asset-backed securities). Private heterogeneous in quality, information about their quality reduces safety properties. We show that government bonds discourage both production (crowding quantity out) in...

Do borrowers demand less credit from banks with weak balance sheets, following monetary policy shocks? To answer this, we use novel bank-specific survey data matched sheet information for euro area banks. We find that, a shock, bank strength influences as well supply. Bank resilience is important firms when selecting lender and it therefore vital to control identifying supply shocks. An applica...