Determinants of Technological and Innovation Performance of the Nepalese Cellular Telecommunications Industry from the Customers’ Perspective

ABSTRACT: The study aimed to understand and analyze the technological and innovation performance measures of the Nepalese cellular telecommunications industry from the customers’ perspective. Measures like network service quality, signal strength and coverage, voice quality, and call drop are used for technological performance, whereas measures like product/service innovation, process innovation, customization, competitive innovation, and marketing

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Risk and Resilience: Examining the Role of Capital Adequacy and Credit Risk in Shaping the Performance of Nepalese Commercial

Abstract:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of capital adequacy and credit risk management on the profitability of the Nepalese banking sector. The specific objectives include analyzing the trends of major performance indicators, evaluating the explanatory power of capital adequacy, examining the causal link between credit risks and bank performance, analyzing the

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Stock Market Responses to Macroeconomic Dynamics: Testing for Long-run Equilibrium in Nepal

Abstract This study empirically examines the macroeconomic factors influencing the stock market’s performance in Nepal. It considers the annual data of four macroeconomic variables; real GDP, inflation, interest rate, and broad money supply from 1994 to 2016, and attempts to reveal the relative influence of these variables on stock prices represented by the ‘NEPSE Index’

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Fundamentals of Common Stock Pricing: Evidence from Commercial Banks of Nepal

Abstract This study relates cross-sectional differences in stock prices of Nepalese commercial banks to the underlying behavior of six fundamental variables: earnings per share, book value per share, cash dividend per share, stock dividend per share, price-earnings ratio, and firm size. This study uses secondary sources of data. The balanced panel data from commercial banks,

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Structural Equation Modeling of Latent Variables Affecting Stock Prices: Evidence from Nepal

Abstract This study uses the structural equation model in Nepali stock market, chooses investor sentiment, monetary and macroeconomic factors as latent variables, and selects a few observed variables which can explain the latent variables to study the influence on stock prices. Based on existing empirical research conclusion, influence path diagram is designed and gets its

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The Dynamic Relationship between Tourism and Economy: Evidence from Nepal

Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of tourism in Nepalese economic growth. I use a trivariate model of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), international tourist arrivals, and real effective exchange rate to investigate the long-run and short-run relationship between tourism and economic growth. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test is used

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Economic Impact of Tourism on Nepal’s Economy Using Cointegration and Error Correction Model

Abstract: Tourism is one of the growing service sectors in Nepal. In 2011 the direct and indirect contribution of the  Nepal tourism industry to total  GDP  and employment is expected to reach 6.7%  and 2.4% respectively (WTTC, 2011). The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of tourism in Nepalese economic growth. I

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