This study examines the dynamic relationship between Brent crude oil spot and futures prices using a time-series econometric framework. Daily spot and futures price data from 31 March 2022 to 31 March 2026 are analysed to assess long-run equilibrium, short-run adjustment, informa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92372
Aims: This study aims to examine the influence of Suco Head leadership and apparatus competence on public service effectiveness, with apparatus job satisfaction as a mediating variable in Suco Hatuquessi, Município Liquiçá, Timor-Leste. Study Design: This study employed a quantit...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92367
Financial budget preparation remains vulnerable to errors arising from data extraction and mapping, spreadsheet manipulation, forecast assumptions, version control, judgemental adjustment and weak reconciliation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly proposed as a means of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92368
This study examined the relationships among compulsive social media use, fear of missing out, social media fatigue, anxiety, and depression among college students in Bengaluru. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire administered across 15 colleges. Of 1,045...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92370
The study aimed to investigate the perceived application of Blockchain technology among accountants, auditors, bankers, and other related professionals in Iraq and the statistical association between this perceived application and financial-information reliability, based on respo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92365
Aims: Previous research predominantly measures OFDI breadth by host-country coverage and lacks a firm-level measure of the functional dimension. This study investigates the impact of digital transformation on the breadth of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in manufacturin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92366
This study investigated the challenges and prospects of e-banking systems for persons with visual impairment in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study aimed to identify the types of e-banking services commonly used, assess challenges faced, evaluate platform accessibility and user-friendl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92364
This study examines the time-varying interdependence and shock spillovers between Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and key macroeconomic performance indicators in Nigeria. Specifically, it investigates the transmission of shocks among EPU, GDP growth, exchange rate, inflation, i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92363
Aims: Global climate finance is increasing, supporting green innovation among MSMEs and efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. Private-sector contributions have nearly tripled, and climate finance has reached USD 1.4 trillion; however, Africa received only 2.4% of these flows, lea...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82362
Background: Climate finance was once a niche environmental concern, but it now plays a major role in global governance and diplomacy. MSMEs in emerging economies remain underfunded. Despite the global increase in climate funding, MSMEs in ASALs face ongoing financial insecurity a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82361
Paddy cultivation is a vital component of agriculture in Tamil Nadu, contributing significantly to food security, rural employment and farm income. Despite its importance, the sector continues to face challenges such as rising input costs, labour shortages, fragmented landholding...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82360
Retail payment systems and electronic commerce have converged over the past decade, yet the scholarly literature describing this convergence remains divided between an economics of payments concerned with instruments, rails and market structure, and a commerce literature concerne...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82359
Bank size remains an important but unsettled determinant of bank performance, particularly in a financial system shaped by consolidation, digitalisation, and changing regulatory requirements. This study examined the impact of equity capital, bank size, loan assets, and deposit li...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82356
Manufacturing firms in Nigeria face increasing environmental and social pressures that may affect the efficiency with which corporate assets generate returns. This study examined the separate effects of environmental intensity, social responsibility, and corporate governance on p...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82357
Aims: The main aim of the study is to measure the extent of labour underutilisation in India using alternative labour market indicators defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in its Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) series, and to test whether the headlin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i82358