The study analyzed the socioeconomic determinants influencing the willingness of the agriculture undergraduates to participate in agripreneurship in Northwest, Nigeria. The study employed a questionnaire to obtain primary data. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 150 respondents from the universities under study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data anal...

This study explores the effects of Interferon-β characteristics such as country of origin, injection frequency and method, monthly cost, efficacy, and side effects on multiple-sclerosis patients’ willingness to pay. For this purpose, MS patients with a history of using Interferon-β were studied from the three major Isfahan MS centers. Choice sets were designed with a combination of attributes a...

The understanding of taxpayers' regulatory compliance still remains a big question. There have been some studies discussing about the compliance. Its variety variables covers: 1) tax cognition, 2) understanding, 3) sunset policy, 4) amnesty, 5) sanction, 6) taxpayer awareness, 7) authorities service, 8) taxpayer's willingness, 9) perception on service effectiveness, 10) automation, 11) environm...

The observation of firms’ political connections (PCs) and corruption has raised the question their benefits to operation, especially on accessing financial resources. Firms with stronger or informal payment willingness may get easier in approaching formal bank loans. By using different types PCs bribe, study shows that while can help SMEs getting loans, bribe does not have any effect access cre...

although there is a tendency worldwide towards alternative methods in effectively managing weeds, use of herbicides to control weeds in conventional agriculture is still inevitable. with regard to externalities (through unsystematic use of herbicides) imposed upon environment, in the present paper it has been tried to study the willingness to pay of wheat farmers to plan for reducing the side e...

Letter of Credit is an international payment instrument whereby the issuing bank undertakes to pay the beneficiary, against presentation of certain stipulated documents, according to the conditions of the Letter of Credit. Discounting of LC for the short-term financing of the seller, due to the independent and irrevocable undertaking of the bank to make payment, is prevalent. Beneficiary gets t...