This study is motivated by the need to improve the understanding of international entrepreneurship (IE) in emerging economies. Thus, the researcher conducted an in-depth case study of four Nigerian firms to investigate how divergent institutional conditions influence the process…
This thesis investigates the dialectical nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) phenomenon a common buzzword in today’s globalized economy. The emergence of CSR as a significant issue in recent years can be attributed to the expectation in developed countries for busine…
This study investigated factors affecting housing finance supply in Nigeria. Housing finance is a major factor determining the quality and tenure of housing consumption, the overall financial portfolio of the public and the stability and effectiveness of the financial system. In…
Scope and method of study. The main objective of this dissertation is to identify the determinants of stock market and currency crises and investigate the direction of causality between stock market and currency crises in emerging markets. The timing of stock market and currency…
This study undertakes a quantitative investigation of the distributional and welfare consequences of a sharp reduction in inflation in a small open economy. In the first chapter, a monetary model of a small open economy with uninsured idiosyncratic earnings risk is analyzed. In …
Chapter 1: Financial Liberalization, Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence. There is by now a great deal of evidence pointing to large scale financial account liberalization and therefore increasing capital mobility around the Pacific Basin. Freer financial systems in the eme…
This doctoral thesis consists of three chapters which are focused on the analysis of monetary policy in emerging economies. In particular, Chapter 2 measures the output cost of disinflation namely, the sacrifice ratio (SR) for emerging economies with and without Inflation Target…
This dissertation is a political sociological analysis of the cross-border mobility of capital. It seeks to determine the political and economic conditions under which emerging economies embrace as well as curtail capital mobility, with a special emphasis on analyzing policies o…