In this paper we investigate the profitability of evolved technical trading rules when controlling for data-mining bias. For the first time in the evolutionary computation literature, a comprehensive test for a rule’s statistical significance using Hansen’s Superior Predictive Ability is explicitly taken into account in the fitness function, and multi-objective evolutionary optimisation is empl...

The establishment of a business is certainly based on several things, one which to get profit or integrity. A company's profits will increase and decrease, things that can affect the rise fall include disclosure corporate social responsibility, capital structure, current ratio. purpose this research find out influence ratio profitability moderated by firm size . This quantitative research, with...

The banking sector is one of the important financial intermediaries in an economic system. Improvement in the banking sector can achieve optimal allocation of financial resources. The performance of banks and other financial service providers has direct effect on economic growth. One of the factors that can affect the banks operation is economic freedom. Economic freedom and freedom of private ...

Uncertainty has qualitatively different implications than risk in studying executive incentives. We study the interplay between profitability uncertainty and moral hazard, where profitability is multiplicative with managerial effort. Investors who face greater uncertainty desire faster learning, and consequently offer higher managerial incentives to induce higher effort from the manager. In con...

Rumelt’s (1991) widely cited paper presents estimates of the relative influence of industry, corporate, business unit, and other influences on business unit profitability. He finds corporations explain almost none of the variability in business unit profitability. Using a simultaneous equation model, we provide alternative estimates of the influence of industry and corporation on business unit ...

A field study was carried out during the summer seasons of 2019 and 2020 at research farm Agriculture University, Kota, Rajasthan, to effect NP fertilization stress mitigating chemicals on productivity profitability cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) baby corn (Zea mays intercropping system. The experiment conducted in a split-split plot design with 5 systems [sole cowpea, sole corn, + (2: 1), (3: 1...

introduction the environmental issues have been considered in all development plans of iran. for example, the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, and fiftieth principles of “iran constitution” directly refer to environmental issues. according to the future outlook of the islamic republic of iran “having the favorable living environment” is regarded as the characteristics of the iranian society in the h...

Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of the data is that it records detailed information for 12 electronics sub-sectors covering both manufacturing ...

Introduction: Sports and war metaphors abound in business today. For example, one management book, Thunder in the Sky, by Thomas Cleary, opens with a Chinese saying that translates: “The marketplace is a battlefield. The Asian people view success in the business world as tantamount to victory in battle.” The book advises American executives to do the same. However, such metaphors are misleading...

Objectives: To re-evaluate previously identified determinants of hospital profitability in the postPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act years. Data: Data were obtained from the Florida Uniform Hospital Reporting System, for years 20102014. Study sample: Sample consisted of general acute care or teaching, privately owned, urban hospitals in Florida. Study design: Longitudinal panel data de...