Tesfaye Boru

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What is blockchain? what is bitcoin?

I have found some definitions regarding such concepts but not adequate enough to fully understand the essence of the above issues:blockchain, bitcoin

07 September 2018 5,558 10 View

Do you know any country where banks are required to surrender part of their foreign currency earning to the government?

Recently the National Bank of Ethiopia has issued a directive for banks to surrender 30% of their foreign currency inflow to the government. This is intended to support government expenditure on...

31 October 2017 3,203 2 View

Does Currency Devaluation promotes export?

Does foreign currency rate depreciation raises exports?

30 October 2017 4,613 30 View

Any economic interpretation for a series of policy measures all done at a time ?

The following are policy measures from the government of Ethiopia: devaluation of local currency against USD by 15%, lending cap for non-export sectors, increase in saving rate by 2 percentage...

28 October 2017 5,038 0 View

Does merger in the banking sector ensures a strong financial system?

Merger and acquisitions in the banking sector of Ethiopia seems a new path to be followed by the government with the basic aim of ensuring a robust banking and financial system. In addition, it's...

29 August 2017 8,723 4 View

How to interpret "scale efficiency" in DEA?

scale efficiency expresses whether a firm is operating at it's "optimal size." If it is not, then using further comparisons of DEA outputs (using increasing or decreasing returns to scale) it is...

22 August 2016 644 6 View

Which efficiency type truly reflects the x-inefficiency of banks?

I was attempting to measure the x-efficiency of banks using Data Envelopment Analysis and found a result on the Profit, cost, technical and revenue efficiency. Which of the efficiency type does...

21 July 2016 8,124 9 View

Is there an additional test required for unbalanced panel data where n(e.g. no of banks) is larger than t (time period)?

Panel data evidence with no of observed banks is larger than the time period

11 April 2016 4,578 6 View

What's data saturation in an interview?

we have been using a sequential explanatory mixed method research where the findings from the quantitative study are reassessed with qualitative approach such as through interview. The selection...

15 March 2016 7,512 9 View

Is spot deal the best way to manage foreign exchange rate risk in banks?

Which deal (with banks or money market) is the best way to maximize earning?

18 April 2015 7,601 5 View

Can you suggest a model to observe the effect of widened parallel and official exchange rate on the foreign reserve?

more specifically a model that works for managed exchange rate regime and with acute problem in foreign currency. what variables are relevant for the model?

30 March 2015 4,927 1 View

Is there a better market/industry concentration measure than the HHI or k-firm concentration ratio?

how we can choose the best out of the options?

27 March 2015 8,315 5 View

Is there a simple method to organize and analyze input from structured interview?

I'm using an exploratory research design method (which consist of both quantitative and qualitative approaches) for a research project. The quantitative analysis has its own determined procedures...

26 March 2015 5,948 14 View

Is Africa facing another systemic debt crisis?

African debt is increasing—this is an indisputable fact. Indeed, sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching debt levels reminiscent of the era just before the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative...

01 January 1970 10,033 6 View

What were the benefits of the Greenbelt Movement?

What did opponents of the Green Belt Movement say and do to stop Wangari and the members of the movement?

01 January 1970 9,813 0 View