Early warning system in business, finance, and economics

Forecasting in Economics, Business, Finance and Beyond

School of Business Finance and Economics Department

Construct equivalence is a necessary condition for establishing validity in comparative cross-cultural studies. This paper explores the relationship between equivalence and validity as presently understood in the international business literature. Various methodologies for strengthening equivalence and validity are discussed. _____________________________________________________________________...

langauge needs analysis of undergraduate business management and economics students

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

Evaluating the Application of a Financial Early Warning System in the Iranian Banking System

One of the significant problems of banks and investors in Iran is the lack of precise awareness about the financial performance of each bank and the roadmap for improving the conditions. Besides, the undesirable status of the financial performance of banks becomes evident only when the improvement of conditions is complicated. In this paper, a data mining-based early warning system (EWS) model ...

Department of Economics and Finance College of Business and Economics University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand

This paper examines the practical usefulness of two new journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which is said to measure “importance”, and Article Influence score, which is said to measure “prestige”, using the most recent ISI data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences, and compares them with two existing ISI metrics, name...