Empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a lognormal or Pareto distribution. However, these studies have focused on developed countries and little attention has been devoted to developing countries. Using the variable of number of employees as a measure of firm size, this paper investigates the shape of firm size distribution in the food & beverages i...

The present study aims at investigating the relationship between firm specific risk and stock return using cross-sectional quantile regression. In order to study the power of firm specific risk in explaining cross-sectional return, a combination of Fama-Macbeth (1973) model and quantile regression is used. To this aim, a sample of 270 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 1999-2010 was i...

We study a novel economic network (supply chain) comprised of wire transfers (electronic payment transactions) among the universe firms in Brazil (6.2 million firms). construct directed and weighted which vertices represent cities edges connote pairwise dependence between cities. Cities (vertices) collection all that location, links denote intercity transfers. find high degree integration trade...

Background: Uterine bleeding is an important side effect of cesarean section which is due to non contractile uterine. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of 10% dextrose (IV infusion) and 40 IU/L oxytocin (IV infusion) on uterine contraction. Materials and Methods: This research was a double-blinded randomized clinical trial (RCT) study. 120 women were equally included in the tw...

Acknowledgement I would like to thank Tim Bunnel, Neil Coe, and Kris Olds for their very helpful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. Abstract The "firm" has been a contested analytical category in economic geography. Much of neoclassical economic geography takes the firm as a self-contained and homogenous "black box" capable of producing economic outcomes in space. The radic...

This study investigates the moderating effect of firm size in the relationship between corporate governance (board size, board independence and ownership concentration) and banks’ risk-taking (insolvency risk and credit risk). Secondary data (annual reports) was collected from a sample of 21 Malaysian commercial banks covering the 2005–2014 accounting period. An empirical model using pooled ord...