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Testing the attitudinal impact of a conservation tool outside a protected area: Thecase of the Kitengela wildlife conservation lease programme for Nairobi National Park
(Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2004)This study was set up to look into socio-economic factors that influenced the success of the Kitengela wildlife conservation lease program for Nairobi National Park. The specific objectives were: (i) To establish whether ... -
Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model on Weekly Returns at Nairobi Securities Exchange
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012-11)The capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is the most widely used approach in asset valuation. The theory predicts that the expected return on an asset above the risk-free rate is proportional to non-diversifiable risk, which ... -
Testing the existence of differences in the level of under-pricing between primary and secondary offerings at the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
(Univesity of NairobiSchool of Bussiness, 1998-08)The study set out to examine difference in the pricing behaviour of primary and secondary offerings of common stock initial public issues occurring at the Nairobi Stock Exchange from the period 1980 to 1997. ... -
Testing the Existence of Low Price Effect on Stock Returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The low price effect simply purports that low priced shares significantly outperform high priced shares on a risk-adjusted return basis. The objective of the study was to test the existence of low price effect on stock ... -
Testing the Firm Size Effects on Stock Market Returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
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Testing the Pecking Order Theory of Capital Structure Among Kenyan
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Testing the Pecking Order Theory of Capital Structure Among Kenyan Firms
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The main aim of this study was testing the Pecking Order Theory of capital structure among firms in Kenyan listed firms, with the Nairobi Securities Exchange, for the period 2011-2016. According to this theory, firms always ... -
Testing the Pre-holiday Effect on Stock Returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The main objective of the study was to test the pre- holiday effect on stock market returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The stock market returns were computed for five days before the holidays and five days after ... -
Testing the Predictive Ability of the Dividend Valuation Model on Ordinary Shares
(University of Nairobi.Faculty of Commerce, 1993-06)The valuation of ordinary shares is much more difficult than that of preferred shares and bonds because of more uncertainty and instability surrounding the income from ordinary shares. The satisfying aspect of investing ... -
Testing the Random Walk Theory on Share Prices At the Nairobi Stock Exchange
(University of Nairobi, School of Business, 2007-11)This study examine whether share prices of companies trading at the Nairobi Stock Exchange follow a random walk trend. We provide evidence that expert analysis can not be used to earn investors an abnormal profit at the ... -
Testing the risk return relationship of the mutual funds market in Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, 2013)The growth in the mutual funds market in Kenya has led to great interest in the risk return relationship in this market. Various asset pricing models can be utilized in empirical testing to determine the dominant risk ... -
Testing the small firm effect on stock market returns at the Nairobi securities exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2014-11)The small firm effect in the cross-section of stock returns is a known asset pricing anomalies that indicates that stocks returns are a decreasing function of firm size. The small firm effect is realized when there are ... -
Testing the Validity of Capital Assest Pricing Model in Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, 2013)There have been various innovation of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). These innovation are meant to redress the assumption of the CAPM in view of capturing the variability of the asset returns. Many attempts have ... -
TESTING THE WEAK-FORM EFFICIENCY OF THE NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE MARKET
(UoN, 2018-11)In an efficient market, prices of securities always respond rapidly and accurately to new information because there are no delays in system facilitation of trading. The main purpose of the study was to test whether the ... -
Testing whether contrarian investment strategy offer profitable opportunity at Nairobi stock exchange
(Business Administration, 2005)Contrarian investment strategy i.e. the act of buying past losers and selling previous winners have been studied widely in developed markets such as the US, and UK. In spite of the importance of studying past performance, very ... -
Testing Whether Forward Exchange Rates Are Predictors of Future Spot Rates in Kenya
(University of NairobiFaculty of commerce, 2002-10)Prior studies indicate that the predictive power of forward exchange rates for future spot rates is weak. Fama (1976, 1984) conjectures that the low forecast power of the forward rates is due to a failure to control the ... -
Testing whether the price-earnings ratio is an Indicator of investment performance of ordinary Shares on the Nairobi stock exchange
(Business Administration, 1999)Investors constantly evaluate performance of different firms and their aim is to determine which firms are doing better so that they can invest their funds in them and which ones are deteriorating in performance so that ... -
Testing whether the price-earnings ratio is an indicator of investment performance of ordinary shares on the Nairobi stoke exchange.
(University of Nairobi,, 1999)Investors constantly evaluate performance of different firms and their aim is to determine which firms are doing better so that they can invest their funds in them and which ones are deteriorating in performance so that ... -
A text linguistic analysis of political speeches: A case study of Obama speeches
(Department of Linguistic and Languages, University of Nairobi, 2009-07)This study attempted an analysis of political rally speeches. It specifically focused on the standards of cohesion, coherence, acceptability and situationality of speeches delivered by the current US President, Barrack ... -
Textual function of style in advertising using women images in Kenyan magazines
(University of Nairobi,Department of Linguistics & Languages, 2004)This is a linguistic study that examines the advertising register in Kenya. It analyses the functional role of advertising language using Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar. Our data specifically comes from Eve and ...