Dengue fever (DF) is a life threatening infectious mosquito borne disease that places a heavy burden on public health system in Sri Lanka as well as on most of the tropical countries around the world. Currently, there is ...

This study examines the effect of economic variables, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Population and Oil Price on oil consumption in Sri Lanka using an Error Correction Model. Yearly data of ...

Electricity demand in Sri Lanka is mainly categorized into three main sectors as Domestic, Industrial and Commercial and the factors affecting on electricity demand may vary from sector to sector. Various methods have been ...

This study examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting investor sentiment in determining stock returns of different sector portfolios, namely, healthcare, telecommunication, banking, insurance, and hotel ...

With the advent of modern portfolio theory1 in 1952 by Harry Markowitz, the investment management industry had witnessed an uprising. Yet the encountered shortfalls and rigidity of the methodologies lead to the development ...

Trading volume is one of the most favored proxies for information arrivals. This study investigated the empirical relationship between stock returns, trading volume and volatility for ordinary voting shares of 20 active ...

The stock markets of the country play a vital role in its economy. Stock market indices are vital fragments of information for investors. It is very important to develop models that reflect the pattern of the stock price ...

In our day to day life, predictability of gold prices is significant in many domains such as economic, financial and political environment. The objectives of this research are to study the behavior of the gold price in Sri ...

A financial distressed situation means a company cannot settle its obligations, liabilities from the operating cash flows or value of total assets is lower than the aggregate value of the liabilities and equity. The ...

Inflation is the most important macro-economic variable mainly used for economic management. There is a widespread agreement that high and volatile inflation can be damaging both to individual businesses and to consumers ...