Efficiency Analysis of Taking out Real Estate Loans for Profit-Making Organizations

Not-for-Profit Organizations: Community Benefits, Efficiency and Quality

Korean Real Estate Market Mechanisms and Deregulation of Mortgage Loans: Qualitative Analysis

The Korean real estate market is currently experiencing a slowdown due to the global economic crisis which has resulted from subprime mortgage lending practices. In response, the Korean government has enforced various policies, based on intend to deregulate real estate speculation, such as increasing the Loan to value ratio (LTV) in order to stimulate housing supply, demand and accompanying hou...

Further Evidence on Real Estate Market Efficiency

This article investigates the extent to which condominium apartment prices in Vancouver, British Columbia are set in an efficient asset market. The empirical results provide strong evidence against market efficiency. A number of instruments, including lagged annual returns and a measure of the deviation of price from fundamental or intrinsic value, to some extent predict future returns. This su...

Decision Making in Non-profit Organizations during times of Turnaround

Non-profit organizations differ in many respects from traditional industrial organizations, with a fundamental discriminate being the absence of a pure economic motivation. There is abundant research on decision making orientation in corporations during organizational declines and subsequent turnarounds. This paper contributes to the research on decision making by investigating how non-profits,...

Proposal for \"Rationalizing\" The Rate of Profit of Bank Loans: A Critique

In winter 1383, the center for Research of Majlis Shura Islamic of Iran (CRMSII) published a proposal on the logic of the prevailing profit rate that the commercial banks pay/charge on long-term bank loans requiring the executive branch of Islamic Republic to lower the average rate of profit by 4.5 percent within 18 months of passage of the bill by Majlis, to reduce government budget defi...