There are various anomalies in the financial markets such as profitability, financial distress, lottery, volatility, and growth options, which origin and nature are unclear, ambiguous and apparently unrelated. In this study, we investigate the seemingly unrelated anomalies using the third and fourth moments of return’s distribution function and by isolating the expected skewness effect attribut...

In this paper, we use the insights of the Real Business Cycles School, to calculate effects of different approaches to allocation of non-renewable (oil) resources’ revenues on Iran’s economic growth. We compare three different approaches, namely allocating the total revenue to the government, allocating some part of the revenue to the government and the rest to investing and allocating the reve...