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Investor’s Behavior Towards Dividend Paying Out Firms
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of doing this research is to examine to see the behavior of investors towards the dividend payouts. It also helps the firms to target their investors according to their demographics and investors behavior as well.
Methodology: Purposive sampling technique is used to collect the data of 75 investors. Out of the total of 75 responses, 66 responses are used for the analysis purpose because 9 are categorized themselves as non-investors in the stock market. Among all the investors of stock market, 82 percent of the respondents are male while 18 percent are females. Cross tabulation technique is used to see the behavior of investors towards the dividend payouts.
Findings: The results of the research supporting the fact that investors love to receive a dividend regular or irregular basis and whether it is in the form of cash or a share. The behavior of investors toward the firm who provide dividends are strong and they also trust those firms who are acting so as well. Investors also believe that the firms providing high dividend are less risky firms and another reason they are providing high dividends is due to their higher growth and they wanted to share the profit with their shareholders as well.
Practical implications/Originality/Value: The research is very much practical in nature and it will help the investors towards the dividend payout of their stocks. Moreover, this research is giving us a path to analyze which age group is interested in investing in a stock and their reasons of investing in a stock as well.
Limitations: The data in our research is too less and we cannot generalize to other countries but it gives a direction about the behavior of an investor while investing in a stock market.
Key words: Investors’ Behavior, Dividend, Payout, Stock Market, Pakistan Stock Exchang
Remittance Incomes and Economic Development in Kosovo
Get PDFIn globalism period, when the migration of the population is informal, migration and remittances have played an extraordinary important role on the socio-economy development of the country. As in many places that are in transition phase and in Kosovo remittance have played a positive role on the development of the country, considering the great number of the diaspora living in foreign countries.
Even in the world’s greatest crises, remittance has been the main pillar of a country, mainly for those countries under development. They are considered as primary incomes for many families of the countries under development and those in transitions, too.
According to the researches performed during last years, it is argued that the remittance increase effect on the economic development of the country. During this paperwork will be explained the theory and practice aspects on the role of remittances on the development of such countries that receive them.
Key words: Remittance, Migration, Economic Development, Importance, Kosov
Ceramic Works in Sahip Ata Foundation Museum
Get PDFKonya Sahip Ata Social Complex is one of the most outstanding monuments that have reached today with both the architectural structure and the works it contains. We started our research with a general information about Sahip Ata Social Complex and Hankah section and continued with examination of ceramic works that are being exhibited in hankah section of the complex. The repairs, techniques and applied motives of the ceramics are mentioned. There are other artefacts in Hankah than ceramic artefacts however, only the ceramic artefacts have been dealt with in order to limit the matter and make examinations in detail. Ceramic artefacts that are believed to belong to the Seljuk period continue to be exhibited in the sahip ata hankah (foundation museum) section. Such studies must be given importance in order to examine and document the art of Turkish tiles and to make them accessible. For this reason, the ceramic artefacts exhibited at Sahip Ata Foundation Museum in Konya province have been identified as research subjects.
Keywords: Art, Architecture, Hankah, Ceramic
Evaluation of Kosovo Primary Education Programs in Terms of Cultural Diversit
Get PDFCommunities that have lived together for a long time have used the same language and created a number of common values. All of these common values ​​constitute the cult of that community. Culture is a complex phenomenon that reflects the ways in which a nation solves its problems, the ways in which it interacts with each other and with others, and the way they think (Naylor, 1996). This research was conducted by teachers 1-5. the structure of the class curricula and their impact on student achievement is determined by a semi-structured interview form, so it is a qualitative research based on the cause-and-effect relationship. The universe of this research is the class teachers who work in the primary schools in the cities where different mother-tongue education is provided in Kosovo.
According to the teachers 'views, the influences of the programs applied for different cultures on the students' success were determined as meaningful differences in the age, education level, teaching language of the teachers and whether or not they were educated in different mother tongues in the same school.
Key words: Primary education, Cultural diversity, Teacher, Evaluation, Kosovo
Relationship Between Credit Default Swaps, Direct Foreign Investments and Portfolio Investments: Time Series Analysis for Turkey
Get PDFForeign investors who come to the country receive credit default swaps which are an insurance against the possibility of failing to fulfill the obligations of the host country. The purpose of using this financial instrument is to provide protection against possible default situations. The higher the value of the credit default swap premium, it means that the risk of default is relatively high whereas the lower risk means that the default risk is relatively low. The purpose of this study is to analyze with ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model) Method Turkey's credit default swap premium for January 2005-September 2017 period and the long run and short run relationship between foreign direct investment and portfolio investments in Turkey. According to the results of the study, there is no long run and short run relationship between credit default swaps and foreign direct investments in Turkey; The presence of a long run and short run relationship with portfolio investments has been identified.
Key words: Credit Default Swap, Foreign Direct Investments, Portfolio Investments, Time Series Analysis, ARDL Metho
English: (Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro)
No full textTo reach the reader of 2018, Contemporary Albanian literature has overcome many obstacles and politics ideology. It felt violated by a certain, imposing and savage ideology. The method of socialist realism by some writers was embraced with delight and conviction, and from some others it was used for compromise to bring to light their works, which, in case of incompatibility with the relevant ideology, was banned from publishing. However, given that literature is the creation of the human spirit, it is unnatural to think that all this literature of this period has not expressed their feelings, sorrows, dreams and their love. Perhaps, we can argue with conviction, which has been a memory for the past and also a dream for the future. This literature overwhelmed the content imposed in 1945 and continued to be the most rebellious. The national liberation war was not the subject of the 1960s literature, which was more stubborn than what was written fifteen years ago, even by the same authors. Here, summed up as a great deal in the history of contemporary literature, find the first and the foremost authors of this literature, their best works, publishers, and their echoes in the language of translation.
Key words: Literature, History, World War II, Writer, Contemporary, Education, Publisher
Penetration strategies of Turkish corporations in Kosovo’s market
Get PDFoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3Rapid developments and increasing competition in recent years have prevented companies from producing and selling only in domestic markets, but also causing their foreign resources and investments to be directed to foreign markets. In this case, once businesses decide to join a particular market, they have to decide which is the best way to penetrate there. Turkish multinational corporations, which have been spreading all over the world with their investments, have conquered world markets with their exports, initiatives and acquisitions, they have entered in foreign markets in various forms and have a significant share in world trade volume with their successful investments. From this point of view, this study examines the strategies by which Turkish multinationals enter foreign markets especially in Kosovo and the impact that those companies have had in the development of the Kosovo economy and the strategies by which Turkish multinationals enter foreign markets.
 
Management and Quality of Services in Pristina’s Hotelier Industry
Get PDFManagement of tourism hotel industry and especially the quality of services in hotel industry are important and successful factors of business.
The concept of quality of service is essential if we wish to understand the genesis of service quality and potential gaps in quality. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of service quality in the hotel industry from the standpoint of conceptual and description attributes influencing this quality.
Today to manage the industry of tourism and hotelier in a more efficient and effective way means to take a step towards the country's economic growth, boost employment at satisfactory levels and welfare of the population. This management is a positive publicity for the country and attracting tourists who bring more income and new social and cultural cooperation.
Key words: Quality, Tourist Production, Service, Guest-Tourist, Resort Entity, Total Quality Management
The Effects of Metacognitive Learning Strategy in Writing Enhancement of English Students
Get PDFThis study investigates the effectiveness of metacognitive learning strategy in writing enhancement of English language and literature students in Kosovo. The research examined students’ metacognitive knowledge and regulation about their priorities regarding drafting, planning, organizing, summarizing, composing, reviewing and later on evaluation. Divided into two phases to first measure their awareness towards metacognition, and then to evaluate their capability in composition through learning strategies, the results of the research suggest that, contrary to the traditional view, in Kosovo, that places its importance on the teacher and not the student, the experimental participants proved that by utilizing metacognitive learning strategy enhances their writing efficiency and effectiveness. Findings also suggest that students’ attitude towards new and modern learning strategies is potently positive and welcoming.
Key words: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, English Language, MAI, Advanced
Optic Fibers as a Broadcasting Media
Get PDFFast brodcasting of an information is always a challange from our daily activities. Through fast broadcasting of the information always created pre-eminence in military activities, business, researching, etc. From ancient times we know that information was orally and hand in hand broadcasted which in most of the times casused in loss of information and due to this also in loss of activities which are mentioned above.
Due to information technology notably computer networks and internet overtime information started broadcasting faster. Information started broadcasting through copper wires and through wireless. Big applications started to develop with the increased use of Internet, high quality broadcasting (HD), video on demand broadcasting (VoD), triple pay broadcasting (three services on a medium), etc., then these two mediums couldn’t complete all these requests.
Therfore after these problems, optic fiber began to be used as a broadcasting medium which eleminated all the defects of other mediums. Importance of this paper work is telling developing stages of optic fiber, it’s characteristics and it’s losses. Then it is shown that which devises enforce the signal of fibers and in the end all three mediums that we mentioned are compared on the basis of attributes.
Findings form the paper will only enforce that knowledge we had before about optic fiber, the best broadcasting medium.
Key words: Broadcast, Medium, Information, Optic Fiber, etc