The stock market can be viewed as a particular data mining and artificial intelligence problem. The movement in the stock exchange depends on capital gains and losses and most people consider the stock market erratic and unpredictable. However, patterns that allow the prediction of some movements can be found. Stock market analysis deals with the study of these patterns. It uses different techn...

The especial importance of capital market in countries is undeniable in economic development via effective capital conduct and optimum resources allocation. Investment in capital market requires decision making in new stock exchanges, and   accessing information in the case of future status of capital market. Undoubtedly, nowadays most part of capital is exchanged via stock exchange all around ...

Is investment cash-flow sensitivity affected by a country’s capital market imperfection? We take 42 countries as our sample and collect six imperfect capital market measures (ICAM), ie., the stock market capitalization ratio, number of publicly-listed firm, stock turnover ratio, bank loan ratio, long-term debt ratio and the interest spread. Using a two-step approach, negative relationships betw...

the introductory issue of the journal of financial research contains six articles in farsi and one in english. it also offers a glossary of financial terminology. the first article deals with the efficient capital market hypothesis , and is authored by dr. ali jahankhani & hussein abdoh tabrizi. it explains the concept and theories of capital market efficiency and their historical development i...

the main objective of this article is to present a comparative study of capital assets pricing models (capm) with extrapolating capital assets pricing models (x-capm) of companies admitted in tehran exchange market which is accomplished for the first time by investigators of this research in iran. accordingly, the statistical population under study of this research includes all companies admitt...

The present paper sets out to underline passive portfolio management on the Romanian capital market starting from the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) derived from the efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the beliefs or preferences of investors. The efficient market hypothesis says that a speculator with limited resources cannot beat a particular index by a substantial facto...

Sustainability is a global issue concerning future generations, but steps towards sustainable development must also be taken at the spatial scales of regions and at the temporal scales of individual lives. Different scales matter in social networks and in cultural realities, too. The fact that relatively small regions can dominate global markets for products based on continuous innovation point...