OIL PRICE FLUCTUATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM OMAN

Oil Price Uncertainty in the Iranian Economy

T he relationship between the price of oil and the level of economic activity is a fundamental empirical issue in macroeconomics. In this research, by using a multivariate GARCH-in-Mean VAR, we try to investigate direct effects of uncertainty of oil price on macroeconomics of Iran by using annually data from 1965 to 2013.Results show that uncertainty about oil prices had a negative a...

exports, government size and economic growth: evidence from iran as developing oil-based economy

this paper investigates the short- run and long-run effects of government size and exports on the economic growth of iran as a developing oil export based economy for the period of 1974 - 2008 using an autoregressive distributed lags (ardl) framework. a modified form of feder (1982) and subsequently ram’s (1986) model has been applied to include both government size and exports in growth equati...

Firm Performance and Selection in an Emerging Economy: Micro Evidence from Slovenia

Analyzing the Impact of Credit Ratings on Firm Performance and Stock Returns: Evidence from Taiwan

The respective study covers three aspects; factors determining credit rating, credit rating impact on performance of entities and the relation between stock returns and credit rating. The study focuses on the firms listed in Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) of Taiwan. The empirical analysis uses the data of 50 firms rated by Taiwan Ratings Corporation (TRC) for the period 2010-2015. Two estimation t...

IT Investments, Alignment and Firm Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

This study presents and tests a model in which the effect of IT investments on firm revenues is associated with the dimensions of IT-business alignment in an emerging market context. We disaggregate firms’ IT business alignment into three dimensions: (1) IT investment-business strategy alignment, (2) IT delivery-business priority alignment, and (3) IT change-business change alignment. Using a s...