This study focuses on short-term investment and financing decisions influenced by a firm’s working capital policy the effect of policies financial performance manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Working were measured policies. was ratio current assets to total assets. categorized as conservative policy, aggressive matching policy. considered which not previous empirical studies. The data included ...

Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and its partners – the American Council on Education’s Center for Policy Analysis, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the State Higher Education Executive Officers – launched a project titled Changing Direction: Integrating Higher Education Financial Aid and Financing Policy, funded by Lumina Foundation for Education. Designed around an in...

This article argues that the three major elements of typical university conflict-of-interest (COI) policies (i.e., disclosure, management, and elimination of conflicts via divestiture or recusal) are likely to be insufficient for screening out many worrisome influences of financial COIs. Current psychological research challenges the effectiveness of disclosure, management plans are unlikely to ...

The paper aims to investigate empirically the effects of several types of financial restraints on financial development for the case of the Iran. Two hypotheses addressed and discussed in the context of the McKinnon/Shaw and the monopoly bank model. A conditional co-integration model has been employed to carry out the empirical investigations. The long and short-run analysis show that fin...

this paper analyzes the effects ofexchange policies on iran,s foreign trade, by applying new econometric techniques. in assessing the impacts of depreciation of the national currency on macroeconomic variable, the real rather than nominal exchange rate has been determined to be more appropriate criterion to demonstrate the success or failure ofthe adopted policies. during the period under the s...

This paper studies contagion and market freezes caused by uncertainty in financial network structures and provides theoretical guidance for central banks. We establish a formal model to demonstrate that, in a financial system where financial institutions are interconnected, a negative shock to an individual financial institution could spread to other institutions, causing market freezes because...

The performance and effectiveness of financial institutions are important considerations for policy-makers concerned about economic growth. Growth, after all, is heavily dependent on investment, and a significant fraction of all investment flows through financial institutions. Furthermore, incidences of financial instability in some countries have shown that poor financial policies can have ser...