Growing Up to Financial Stability

University revenue diversification: a path to financial stability

The purpose of present study was to investigate revenue diversification among Iranian public universities in order to improve the stability and flexibility of financial resources. A quantitative practical correlational research design was utilized for this study. The spatial scope of research was one and two level comprehensive public and industrial public universities during 2013-2018. Data we...

Growing up with stability: How open-source relational databases evolve

Like all software systems, databases are subject to evolution as time passes. The impact of this evolution can be vast as a change to the schema of a database can affect the syntactic correctness and the semantic validity of all the surrounding applications. In this paper, we have performed a thorough, large-scale study on the evolution of databases that are part of larger open source projects,...

Growing up

To the casual observer, successful neonatal care may appear to end at the door of the neonatal unit along with the appreciations and farewells. However this is merely the end of the beginning, as the reality of life outside the neonatal unit commences for infant and family. This article examines the role of neonatal follow-up and some of the factors that determine how such services are currentl...

Financial Stability in Islamic Banking System the Capacity to React to Current World Wide Crisis

 This paper investigates the financial stability, measured by z-score technique in Islamic banking system of 20 countries from 2000 to 2010. We compare the stability of Islamic banks to the commercial banks, before and after the financial crisis. The empirical results from panel estimation show that: a) the large Islamic banks are more stable than the large commercial banks and furthermo...

Transition Challenges to Stability; Global Financial Stability Report; October 2013