International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
 Issue 81
 December, 2011
 
Mapping Fuzzy Approach in Engineering Economics
6-12
Majid Shahriari
 
 
Impact of Managerial Ownership on Financial Policies and the Firm’s Performance: Evidence Pakistani Manufacturing Firms
13-29
Shahab-u-Din and Attiya Javid
 
 
Marketing is All about Taking Money from Customers (An Application of Tobit Model)
30-37
Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, Syed Akif Hasan and Amber Osman
 
 
Constraints Affecting the Efficiency of Mutual Funds in the Saudi Financial Market
38-50
Abdullah Barakat, Ehab Nazmy and Mahd Ali Al- jabali
 
Examining the Effect of RBA Target Rate News on the Interest Rate Futures Market
51-64
Lee A. Smales
 
 
Causes of Child Labour and Discrimination of Wages in Different Sectors: A Case of Urban Multan, Pakistan
65-76
Ghulam Yasin, Farzana Qasim and Farhan Ahmad Faiz
 
Stock Price Variation Regarding Macro-Economic and Firm-Specific Accounting Variables: Evidence from Karachi Stock Exchange
77-88
Muhammad AZAM
 
 
An Empirical Estimation of The Contribution of Energy Saving Systems (ESS) Toward Cost Reduction and Efficiency: Productivity Improvement in Thracian SME’S
89-97
Efthimios Stathakis, Demetrios V Bandekas, Pantelis Adoniadis, Panagiotis Arsenos and Nikolaos Vordos
 
 
 
Early Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the US capital Markets
98-105
Arbër H. Hoti and Artor R. Nuhiu
 
 
 
The Importance of Relationship Management with Small Shareholders in Value Creation: Illustration by French and Tunisian Backgrounds
106-115
Theiri Saliha and Ati Abdessatar
 
 
Risk Aversion and Stockholding Behavior of U.S. Households
116-126
M. Humayun Kabir, Shamim Shakur and Jie Liu
 
 
 
Is There a Wealth Transfer Effect in Strategic Alliances?
127-138
Weiju Young and Chun-An Li
 
 
 
Book-Building, Price Limits Removal, and IPO’s Stock Price Behavior in Taiwan: Share Allocation Mechanism Matters
139-147
Gili Yen, Jian-Fa Li, Cheng-Yih Hong, Yih-Bey Lin and Yi-Ju Chen
 
 
 
Determinants of Commercial Banks Performance: Evidence from Jordan
148-159
Husni Ali Khrawish
 
 
 
Do Jordanian Firms Smooth their Dividends? Empirical Test of Symmetric and Asymmetric Partial Adjustment Models
160-172
Ziad Zurigat and Mohammad Gharaibeh