Noel Yahanpath

• Honorary Research Fellow at Eastern Institute of Technology (Auckland Campus)

This study investigates the speed of adjustment of capital structure of small and medium capitalised firms in Europe before and during the sovereign debt crisis period. The sample includes 306 firms from 10 European countries comprising 2,142 firm-year observations for the period 2006 to 2013. After controlling the influence of firm-level, industry...

The purpose of this paper is to study whether mergers and acquisitions create value in Chinese and Indian markets. We study abnormal Returns created by the acquiring firms in Chinese and Indian markets relating to Merger and Acquisition announcements, using three different statistical methods; i.e., Mean, Market and OLS Adjusted Return Models. On...

This article explores internal discussions of a performance measurement tool called the balanced scorecard (BSC) for potential application in a suburban church. Interviews were conducted with church leaders exploring issues they face if a BSC was adopted to assess church performance. A significant finding was the difficulty church leaders had incor...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to show how certain bank capitalists in an Asian country (AC) make credit decisions and what methods they use to justify their irrational investment decisions, and second, to investigate why they make such unproductive investment decisions. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts the case-study...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to show how certain bank capitalists in an Asian country (AC) make credit decisions and what methods they use to justify their irrational investment decisions, and second, to investigate why they make such unproductive investment decisions. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts the case-study m...

Purpose – The paper aims to evaluate the role played by a recent banking and macro-prudential regime in addressing the financial crisis in New Zealand (NZ). Design/methodology/approach – The basic methodology used in this paper is the “documentary research method”. For this study data have been collected from various published sources. Findings –...

This is a study of part-time paid semester work by undergraduate students at the Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand. It extends Manthei and Gilmore’s study at Canterbury University to a non-university tertiary setting. Replicating their study confirms a high proportion of students in part-time paid employment, 62 per cent compared to thei...

Traditional methods of assessment have intrinsic problems in current learning environments of educating large numbers of students with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and a growing ‘culture’ of plagiarism. Several assessment methods that involve group and written assignment work are briefly described. The authors’ use of supervised assignme...

The current study of student semester­time paid work uses the questionnaire from the earlier by Manthei & Gilmore. They gathered data from an Education Faculty, 83 undergraduates using a questionnaire asking about degree study and part­time paid work while studying. They note in their article that there is no similar data in New Zealand (2005, p. 2...