generally, alluvial basins of arid and semiarid zones are the places with excessive groundwater withdrawal, and also they have a high potential for land subsidence. excessive groundwater withdrawals have caused severe land subsidence in tehran, iran. at present, the maximum land subsidence rate is 36 cm/year, covering an area of nearly 530 km2. in the 2000s, as a result of economic and populati...

The Indian banking sector has undergone rapid transformation since 1991—the year India started a series of economic reforms. As part of the reforms, along with public sector banks, private sector banks started operations in the country. Due to the rapid reforms of the banking sector and the increased competition, Indian banks are now featured prominently on the global stage. Estimates indicate ...

This paper employ hand-collected data concerning foreign strategic investment and corporate governance in the Chinese banking sector, we examine whether foreign strategic investment improve the corporate governance of Chinese banks and whether corporate governance improve performance of Chinese banks. We found that foreign strategic investment increases the binding force for top three sharehold...

Iran's banking industry has faced a wide range of changes during recent years and its banks' performance has been affected by these changes. On the one hand, the entry of private banks to the industry has made various changes in the industry's concentration and the market share of banks, on the other hand, banking technologies and strengthened competitive environment have led banks to increase ...

this review reports recent advances in the field of polymer–layered silicate nano composites. thesematerials have attracted both academic and industrial attention because they exhibit dramaticimprovement in properties at very low filler contents. herein, the structure, preparation andproperties of polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites are discussed in general, and finally the effectof clay na...

Corporate governance of banks is one of the most important structures required by banks to maintain the health and stability of banks, which can play an important role in managing banks' risk. This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on liquidity risk management, credit risk management, and total bank risk management. We used board structure effectiveness, transparency, and respon...

The main purpose of this paper is providing a model to calculate the credit risk of Melli bank clients and implement it at Mellat Bank. Therefore, the present study uses a multi-layered neural network method. The statistical population of this research is all real and legal clients of Melli and Mellat banks. Sampling method used in this research is a simple random sampling method. Friedman test...

An inverted U-shaped relationship is thought to exist between the number of firms entrenched in a market and the rate of new entrants. This study examined early and late entry by foreign and U.S. banks into the California market following a deregulation in the banking industry in the early 1980s. The study was designed to elucidate the competitive interactions between foreign and domestic banks...

this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...