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Access to Credit and Households’ Borrowing Behavior in East Africa

Lotto, Josephat (Journal of Economics and Business, 2019)

The primary objective of this paper is to examine how the borrowing behavior of households in the East African region are influenced by their demographic characteristics- gender, age, income and education using Tobit ...
Accounting Changes and Budgeting Practices in the Tanzanian Central Government: A Theory of Struggling for Conformance

Mkasiwa, Tausi Ally (University of Southampton, 2011-07)

This research investigates the phenomenon of budgeting practices in the Tanzanian Central Government. It seeks to understand how budgeting systems under the New Public Management (NPM), World Bank- and IMF-exhorted systems ...
Assessing the Determinants of Bank Liquidity: Experience from Tanzanian Banks

Lotto, Josephat; Mwemezi, Justus (The African Journal of Finance and Management, 2015)

This paper identifies the determinants of banks’ liquidity in Tanzania. The panel regression was employed for secondary data extracted from published bank financial statements of 49 banks in the sample, covering the period ...
Complex corporate ownership and control in UK listed companies

Lotto, Josephat (University of Strathclyde, 2012)

This thesis sets out the empirical evidence on complex ownership and control using data for UK listed firms adapted from Faccio and Lang (2002) for the period 1996-1999. Using OLS estimation method, the thesis links corporate ...
Credit availability for Tanzania’s small businesses: a gender perspective

Lotto, Josephat (Business Management Review, 2016)

The purpose of this study was to examine whether firm and owners’ characteristics are driven by gender and whether gender is attributable to credit accessibility in small and locally-owned firms in Tanzania. The study uses ...
Determinants of Financial Performance of Tanzanian Banks

Lotto, Josephat; Kakozi, Ezra (The African Journal of Finance and Management, 2016)

This paper examines factors that affect bank performances in Tanzania for the period of 2006 to 2013. The empirical results suggest that high net interest margins (NIM) and return on bank assets (ROA) are significantly ...
Directors and firm performance: evidence from British soccer corporations

Mnzava, Bernard Elieza (Leeds University Business School, The University of Leeds, 2011)

The purpose of this research is to analyze the importance of the interrelationship between directors and firm performance in UK soccer corporations. In doing so the analysis enriches the existing literature in corporate ...
Diversification, financial performance and the destruction of corporate value? An application of fuzzy set analysis

Mabonesho, Ernest Francis (University of Strathclyde, 2013)

FSA techniques appear to offer valuable complementary theoretical and empirical insights to conventional finance research methods in order to better understand the financial impact of corporate diversification strategies. ...
Does bank capital regulation affect bank value?

Lotto, Josephat (African Journal of Business Management, 2017-05-08)

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between capital adequacy and the bank profitability measured by returns on equity (ROE) for Tanzanian large commercial banks during the period between 2009 and 2014. ...
Does IFRS improve the usefulness of accounting information in African capital markets?

Ngole, Shaban Juma (Leeds University Business School, The University of Leeds, 2012)

This thesis examines whether IFRS adoption improves the usefulness of accounting information in African capital markets. Consistent with the IASB (2010) conceptual framework which focuses on shareholders, I define usefulness ...
Domestic Debt and Economic Growth in Tanzania - An Empirical Analysis

Lotto, Josephat (Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 2018-05-26)

The main objective of this paper was to examine the impact of domestic debt on economic growth in Tanzania for the period 1990 to 2015 using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method to estimate the effects. The study ...
The Effect of Separating Ownership from Control on Corporate Leverage

Lotto, Josephat (Business Management Review, 2012)

This paper aims to examine how corporate leverage is affected by the separation of ownership from control .Using data from a sample of 643 listed UK firms, the results show supportive evidence of a statistically significant ...
Efficiency of Capital Adequacy Requirements in Reducing Risk-Taking Behavior of Tanzanian Commercial Banks

Lotto, Josephat (Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, 2016)

This paper intended to examine the relationship between capital and risk of Tanzanian commercial banks during the period 2009-2014 using the Two Stage Least Square (2SLS) method of estimation. The empirical findings reveal ...
The Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Bank Capital Regulations on Operating Efficiency

Lotto, Josephat (International Journal of Financial Studies, 2018-03-22)

This paper principally aims at examining the impact of capital requirements regulation on bank operating efficiency in Tanzania. The study employs bank level data for the period between 2009 and 2015. The findings show a ...
Evaluation of factors influencing bank operating efficiency in Tanzanian banking sector

Lotto, Josephat (Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019-09-12)

This paper examines factors affecting operating efficiency of 36 commercial banks in Tanzania for the period between 2000 and 2017. The paper employs robust random-effect regression model to estimate the relationship between ...
Evaluation of Financial Performance of Foreign and Domestic Banks Operating in Tanzania

Lotto, Josephat (European Journal of Business and Management, 2016)

This study aimed at conducting a comparative analysis of the financial performance of foreign owned banks and domestic banks operating in Tanzanian banking sector for the period between 2009-2016 using DuPont model and the ...
Examination of the Status of Financial Inclusion and its Determinants in Tanzania

Lotto, Josephat (MDPI Sustainability, 2018-08-13)

The primary motive of this paper is to examine the determinants of financial inclusion in Tanzania. The paper borrows data from a household survey conducted by TWAWEZA. Employing the probit regression, the findings of ...
Examining the impact of information technology on internal auditing effectiveness in Tanzanian organizations

Lotto, Josephat (Time Journals of Social Sciences, 2014-11-06)

This research assessed the impact of Information technology on internal auditing in Tanzanian organizations. The study was exploratory and descriptive in nature and it was restricted to the Dar es Salaam area, which is the ...
Exploring human capital: Discrimination factors and group-specific performance in the football industry

Trequattrini, Raffaele; Lardo, Alessandra; Ricci, Federica; Lombardi, Rosa (African Journal of Business Management, 2017)

The aim of the study is to investigate whether discrimination factors exist within professional football clubs, concerning the management of their human capital, by analyzing the correlation between the footballers’ wages ...
Exploring the value of factoring as a finance option for small enterprises in emerging economies: A Tanzanian case study

Satta, Tadeo Andrew (Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2006)

Using Tanzania as a case study, this paper explores the value of factoring as a finance option for small enterprises in emerging economies. Based on identified challenges, the paper develops a policy framework that could ...

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