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IMPACTS OF FUNDAMENTAL MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS AND ANTI – SHOCK POLICIES IN NIGERIA: A DSGE ANALYSIS
Get PDFThis paper extensively used the framework of the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGEM) to examine fundamental macroeconomic variables and key policy response variables in Nigeria. The model is used to evaluate the effects of fundamental macroeconomic shocks – general price level, the interest rate, the real exchange rate, and inflation and to test the effectiveness of different policies, using the impulse responses of the variables to one standard deviation and the variance decomposition analysis, in explaining the variations in the main macroeconomic variables. Against this background, this paper analyzes whether the Nigerian economy has any possibility at all to apply anti-shock policies in order to reduce or eliminate the short and long run effects of the stated fundamental macroeconomic shocks. The results show considerable empirical evidence that the foreign interest rate shock leads to much more persistent responses in both domestic and foreign variables. The foreign supply and inflation shocks increase domestic output gap, inflation and interest rates. Higher interest rate and real exchange rate appreciation reduce aggregate demand as well as a fall in output gap and inflation. The policy responses of domestic variables to external shocks have been captured by the method analyses. However domestic policy distortions increase economic effects
Microfinance credit and micro enterprise development in the agricultural sub-sector of the Nigerian economy
No full textThis study seeks to examine the relevance of micro financing credit loans to Agri-business in Lagos State, Nigeria - the development of Agricultural sub-sector centering the attention to the contribution of the institutions involved in the provision of these credits.It makes a critical review of the performance of microfinance institutions in Nigeria, based on a survey of the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (a microfinance scheme established to boost the agricultural sub-sector of Nigeria). The study examines the scheme – the institutions involved and analyses the performance using the outreach paradigm via the mixed approach research techniques – qualitative and quantitative research methods. In analyzing the outreach performance, the study evaluates the extent to which the scheme is fulfilling its objectives. Questionnaires were distributed to farmers in Lagos state. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentage presented in tables and further analyzed using the chi-square method. Findings of the secondary data established from the Central Bank of Nigeria, indicates that the operation of the ACGSF though not stable has grown over the years, driven largely by expanding agricultural sector activities. The study reveals that the process of obtaining funds from the scheme is stressful and needs to be simplified. It also reveals that there is the urgent need to approve and implement a policy framework that would regulate and standardize micro finance operations, accessing medium to long term sustainable commercial sources of funds and increase mobilization of savings and shifting a good proportion of credit portfolio to the promotion of the real sector activities, especially agriculture.It is significant that Nigerian microfinance credit must be efficiently employe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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