abstract in this paper, we examine relationship between financial intermediary development variables and values added of agricultural sector in iran during 1352 to 1385. the five indices derived from the banking system as a financial intermediary development indicators, that define in related to the agricultural sector, and with the introduction of statistic methods of factor analysis and its a...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

explanation relation between risk and return and capital asset pricing are concepts which is appointed as dominator and major paradigms in capital markets. so far as after offering capm by sharp & lintner, this model has been revised and criticized frequently. in this paper another version of capm has been tested versus traditional capm in tehran stock exchange. this version of capm measures se...

Article history: Received 27 October 2007 Received in revised form 18 June 2008 Accepted 18 June 2008 Available online 26 June 2008 This paper investigates the effect of stock market microstructure on managerial compensation schemes. We propose and empirically demonstrate that the sensitivity of chief executive officer's (CEO's) compensations to changes in stockholders' value is higher when the...

Background: The study was conducted to examine the comparability of the BMI and Gallagher’s classification in diagnosing obesity based on the cutoff points of the gold standards and to estimate suitable cutoff points for detecting obesity among Iranians.Methods: The cross-sectional study was comparative in nature. The sample consisted of 20,163 adults. The bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)...

This paper investigates the effect of stock market microstructure on managerial compensation schemes. We propose and empirically demonstrate that the sensitivity of chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) compensations to changes in stockholders’ value is higher when the stock market facilitates the production and aggregation of private or public information. Using stock trading data and analysts’ ea...

We estimate firms’ cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system’s structure and activity level influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida et al. (2004), a path-breaking design for evaluating a firm’s financial constraints, with Levine (2002), who paved the way for comparative analysis of financial systems around the world. We conjectur...

background: the study was conducted to examine the comparability of the bmi and gallagher’s classification in diagnosing obesity based on the cutoff points of the gold standards and to estimate suitable cutoff points for detecting obesity among iranians. methods: the cross-sectional study was comparative in nature. the sample consisted of 20,163 adults. the bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia...