Research and Publications: Recent submissions

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    • Financial Time Series Modelling of Trends and Patterns in the Energy Markets 

      Aduda, Jane; Weke, Patrick; Ngare, Philip; Mwaniki, Joseph (Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2016)
      Precise recognition of a time series path is important to policy makers, statisticians, economists, traders, hedgers and speculators alike. The correct time series path is also a key ingredient in pricing models. This ...

    • Community Theatre and Development Practices in the Nyanza Region of Kenya 

      Mwai, Wangari; Diang’a, Rachael; Kebaya, Charles (2015)
      Positing Community Theatre as an agency for development and is an effective way to encourage community dialogue, this article interrogates practices and efficacies of Community Theatre in Nyanza, ...

    • Utility indifference pricing of derivatives written on industrial loss indices 

      Leobacher, Gunther; Ngare, Philip (North-Holland, 2016)
      We consider the problem of pricing derivatives written on some industrial loss index via utility indifference pricing. The industrial loss index is modeled by a compound Poisson process and the insurer can adjust ...

    • Effect of Microfinance Credit on SMEs Financial Performance in Kenya 

      Amsi, Flora; Ngare, Philip; Imo, Petronilla; Gachie, Mercie (Scholarlink Research Institute, 2017)
      The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector is important for the growth of the economy in any developing country. Similarly, microfinance credit facilities are crucial to SMEs financial performance as they facilitate ...

    • Pedagogical Aspects of Riddles: A Critical Examination of Abagusii Riddles 

      Gachanja, Muigai Wa; Kebaya, Charles (International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013)
      This paper is based on a critical examination of pedagogical aspects of riddles among the Abagusii community and opines that riddles play an important role in the education system of notonlychildren but ...

    • Power and Gendered Identities: (Re) Configuring the Gendered Self in Kenyan Drama 

      Olembo, Waveney; Kebaya, Charles (Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)
      Studies of power and gender identity form part of the dominant discourses of various scholars such as Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Margaret Hall, Michel Foucault, and Gloria Anzaldua who have explored the ...

    • Reading the Story of Jesus Christ as an Epic 

      Mwai, Wangari; Gimode, Edwin; Kebaya, Charles (Cultural and Religious Studies, 2015)
      There is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the eternal embodiment of the Christian faith. The story of salvation, especially the life of Jesus, forms the basis through which many Christians encounter the ...

    • The Criminalization of Youth in Popular Art in Kenya 

      Charles, Kebaya (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018)
      Couched on cultural criminology, this article presents a critical exegesis of how popular cultural productions in Kenya mediate the “criminal” label among youth in Kenya using purposively selected ...

    • POPULAR MUSIC AND IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG KENYAN YOUTH 

      Wanjala, Henry; Kebaya, Charles (Journal of Music Research in Africa, 2017)
      The role of music in the formation and shaping of identity cannot be gainsaid since music represents an important cultural sphere where identities are affirmed, challenged, torn apart and reconstructed. ...

    • Regime-Switching Model on Hourly Electricity Spot Price Dynamics 

      Gyamerah, Samuel Asante; Ngare, Philip (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018)
      A robust time-varying regime-switching model for price dynamics of hourly spot price of electricity on the electricity market is developed. We propose a two-state Markov Regime Switching (MRS) model that gives weight to ...

    • On Steady Dividend Payment under Functional Mean Reversion Speed 

      Mtunya, Adeline Peter; Ngare, Philip; Nkansah-Gyekye, Yaw (Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2016)
      We study how firms’ management can ensure steady dividend growth and payout to the shareholders in an emerging market. We create the dividend equalization reserve account whereby during high profit some amount of money ...

    • Factor Analysis of Customers Perception of Mobile Banking Services in Kenya 

      Kweyu, Martin; Ngare, Philip (Sabinet, 2013)
      Mobile banking service, M-Shwari, allows users to save, earn interest and borrow loan over a short period of time using their mobile phones. The service has a potential to spur economic growth if consumers could understand ...

    • COMMUNITY THEATRE AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES IN NYANZA REGION, KENYA 

      Diang’a, Rachael; Kebaya, Charles (Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, 2016)
      Positing Community Theatre as a site and agency for development, an effective way to share information and encourage community dialogue, this paper interrogates practices and efficacies of Community Theatre in Nyanza, ...

    • Interest Rate Risk Management for Commercial Banks in Kenya 

      Ngalawa, James; Ngare, Philip (2014)
      We show empirically that bank’s exposure to interest rate risk or income gap determines the structure of the balance sheet. In particular, we show that in Kenya, commercial banks typically retain a large exposure to ...

    • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the Informal Sector in Kenya 

      Githui, Thomas; Ngare, Philip (2014)
      Old age dependency has become a major issue of concern to governments today. This is because a large number of retirees lack any form of regular income to sustain them in retirement. Kenya has one of the highest levels ...

    • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the Informal Sector in Kenya 

      Githui, Thomas; Ngare, Philip (2014)
      Old age dependency has become a major issue of concern to governments today. This is because a large number of retirees lack any form of regular income to sustain them in retirement. Kenya has one of the highest levels ...

    • On Modelling and Pricing Rainfall Derivatives with Seasonality 

      Leobacher, Gunther; Ngare, Philip (Taylor & Francis, 2010)
      We are interested in pricing rainfall options written on precipitation at specific locations. We assume the existence of a tradeable financial instrument in the market whose price process is affected by the quantity of ...

    • Response of Economic Growth to Domestic Borrowing in Kenya 

      Kimolo, Dorothy Ngina; Onono, Perez Ayieko (Amity Journal of Economics, 2017)
      Kenya envisioned economic growth rate of 10 per cent per annum and a reduction in domestic debt levels to below 25 per cent of GDP by 2012. These targets were not achieved. Whether the slow rate of ...

    • Polarization independent and tunable plasmoninduced transparency for slow light 

      Yang, Hanning; Owiti, Edgar O; Yenpo, Pai; Sun, Xiudong (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)
      A novel metamaterial composed of a Ag nanoprism periodic tetramer is proposed in this paper. Themetamaterial has high structural symmetry and shows polarization independent plasmon-inducedtransparency (PIT), demonstrated ...

    • Polarization Converter with Controllable Birefringence Based on Hybrid All-Dielectric-Graphene Metasurface 

      Owiti, Edgar O; Yang, Hanning; Liu, Peng; Ominde, Calvine F (Nanoscale Research Letters, 2018)
      Previous studies on hybriddielectric-graphenemetasurfaceshavebeenusedtoimplementinducedtransparency devices,while exhibiting high Q-factors based on trapped magnetic resonances.Typically,the transparencywindows are ...