 Factors Affecting investment decision in Nepal

Variables

Dependent: Investment Decision

Independent Variables: Expected return, past experience, risk attitude, financial knowledge, time
horizon, income level, investment alternatives available

Theoretical framework

Expected Return Past Experience

Financial knowledge Investment Decision Risk Attitude

Investment products Income level Time Horizon

available in native
markets.

Research Questions:

Which factor is the most influencing factor for investment decision?

What are the factors that affect the rational investor’s decision to invest?

Why the investment in securities market has been declining in Past few months?

What can be done in order to increase the investment?

Hypothesis:

H1=There is significance relationship between expected return and investment decision.

H2= There is significance relationship between past experience and investment decision.

H3= There is significance relationship between financial knowledge and familiarity investment decision.

H4= There is significance relationship between income level and investment decision.
H5= There is significance relationship between investment maturity time and investment decision.

H6= There is significance relationship between investment alternative available and investment decision.

H7= There is significance relationship between Risk attitude and investment decision.

 Impact of Corporate governance and bank performance in Nepal

Variables:

Dependent variable: bank performance: Return on assets, Return on Equity, and Non-
performing loan

Independent Variables: Corporate Governance: Board size, number of executive directors,

number of independent directors, number of board meetings in the last fiscal year.

Theoretical framework:

Board size Number of Executive

directors

Bank performance: Leverage

ROA, ROE and NPL

Number of
independent directors Number of board
meetings held.

Research Questions

Is there any relationship between corporate governance variable and bank performance?

What is the impact of corporate governance variable on bank performance?

Should the bank strictly follow corporate governance to increase the performance?

Hypothesis:

H1: Board size is negatively related to bank performance

H2: Board independence is positively related to bank performance

H3: Board dependence on executive director is negatively related to bank performance

H4: Number of board meeting is positively related to bank performance

H5: Leverage and bank performance is positively related.

 Employee relation and its employee performance

Variable:

Dependent: Employee performance

Independent: Motivation, working environment, employ-employer relationship, communication and

human resource practice.

Theoretical framework:

Motivation Working Environment

Employee performance Employ-employer

relationship

Human resource
practice Communication

Research Questions

Is there relationship between employee performance and employee relation?

Why the performance of the employee has been decreasing for the past 6 months?

What can be done to improve the performance of the employee?

Hypothesis:

H1: There is significant relationship between motivation and employee performance

H2: There is significant relationship between HRM practices and employee performance

H3: There is significant relationship between Employ-employer relationship and employee performance

H4: There is significant relationship between working Environment and employee performance

H5: There is significant relationship between communication and employee performance