Article history: Accepted 26 September 2010 JEL classification: O31 O33 O41

Advances in leasing industry as a means of finance mainly started in 1900 though leasing dates back to centuries ago. Despite its differences in different countries as a result of differences in laws and regulations, finance function has been a common distinctive function of leasing all over the world. Leasing has its modern and unique features and advantages to establish itself as one of t...

There are two sources for governments to raise their revenues. The first is the direct taxation levied on output, and the second is seigniorage. Seigniorage is also known as printing new money and is defined as the value of real resources acquired by the government through its power of sovereignty on its monopoly of printing money. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Laffer curve for Se...

Article history: Received 18 September 2008 Received in revised form 11 February 2011 Accepted 21 February 2011 Available online 24 February 2011 JEL classification: C91 C92 PsycINFO classification: 3020 3900

In this paper, we use probabilistic methods of excursion theory for Lévy processes in order to value some exotic options in general exponential Lévy models. AMS 2000 Subject Classification : Primary: 60G51, 91B28, 91B70. JEL Classification: C13.

government policies had been provided foreign direct investment (fdi) multiplier entry basis in iran in two late decade with effect on fdi absorbency effective ingredient. in this study, in order to set government policies effects outlook on the future situation of fdi supply in iran in two late decade, two forms of non-linear fdi supply functions has been simulated, by using direction line of ...

the frequent occurrence of currency crises in recent years brought the early warning literature back in the researchers spotlight. in recent years, concept of an early warning system (ews) developed that should be able to identify various costly events, such as currency crises, early enough for policy makers to reduce the costs. this study attempted by using iran's economy quarterly data d...

In repeated games with di®erential information on one side, the labelling \general case" refers to games in which the action of the informed player is not known to the uninformed, who can only observe a signal which is the random outcome of his and his opponent's action. Here we consider the problem of minimizing regret (in the sense ̄rst formulated by Hannan [8]) when the information available...

We show that any connected regular graph with d + 1 distinct eigenvalues and odd-girth 2d + 1 is distance-regular, and in particular that it is a generalized odd graph. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05E30, 05C50; JEL Classification System: C0

the frequent occurrence of currency crises in recent years brought the early warning literature back in the researchers spotlight. in recent years, concept of an early warning system (ews) developed that should be able to identify various costly events, such as currency crises, early enough for policy makers to reduce the costs. this study attempted by using iran's economy quarterly data d...