Corporate Life Cycle and the Explanatory Power of Risk Measures versus Performance Measures

Effect of Firm Life Cycle Theory on the relevance of Risk Measures

Risk phenomenon is one of the key characteristics of decision making in the fields of investment, issues associated with financial markets, and various economic activities. The present study was an attempt to evaluate the impact of different periods of life cycle of companies on the relevance of risk measures of companies. In this study, the collected data have been analyzed in three stages. Fi...

Comparing Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Power

Recently, in attempting to account for explanatory reasoning in probabilistic terms, Bayesians have proposed several measures of the degree to which a hypothesis explains a given set of facts. These candidate measures of “explanatory power” are shown to have interesting normative interpretations and consequences. What has not yet been investigated, however, is whether any of these measures are ...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Anthropometric Measures and the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

survey the relationship between some corporate governance instruments and economic and financial measures of performance

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