Institutions that fail to protect citizens against expropriation from the government hinder investment and economic development. How do economic agents counteract these institutions? I propose a theory of companies establishing connections with politicians as a mechanism to protect property rights and increase investment. I build a model in which N companies face a sector-level threat of exprop...

Traditional DEA models ignore the internal process of production systems and are not able to identify the cause of deficiency in efficiencies measuring. At this research, traditional DEA model and two-stage DEA model were used to measure the efficiency of Iranian private insurance companies during 2007-2009. The results indicated that the traditional DEA model is not suitable for such kind of n...

The main purpose of this paper is to propose an approach for performance measurement, classification and ranking the investment companies (ICs) by considering internal structure and uncertainty. In order to reach this goal, the interval network data envelopment analysis (INDEA) models are extended. This model is capable to model two-stage efficiency with intermediate measures i...

approach to ranking private companies based on predictive indicators. AI Communications. Private equity investors seek to rank potential investment opportunities in growth stage private companies within an industry sector. The sparsity of historical investment transaction data for many growth stage private companies may present a major obstacle to using statistical methods to discern industry s...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been a major investment for most companies since the early nineties. ERP is a type of investment that has an integrated approach, and has been widely adopted, but there is little empirical evidence about how ERP implementation affects company performance. This chapter begins with the discussion of ERP investment and its role as a commodity or as a strategi...

in this paper disposition effect, selling winners and holding losers, in tehran stock exchange (tse) investment companies and its effect on these companies’ cash flows and performance using odean model has been reviewed and investigated. research findings show that the realized profit ratio is %19 higher than the realized loss ratio in all of investment companies in tse. this mean there is a be...

This study sheds new light on the cross-sectional effects of inflation, which have substantial implications for stock valuation. I use financial statement analysis to examine systematic stockvaluation effects of aggregate price-level changes on individual companies, focusing on the implications for both researchers and investment practitioners. I develop inflation-adjustment procedures that are...