Sustainability Reporting in Family Firms: A Panel Data Analysis

Dynamic Panel Data Analysis Of European Tourism Demand In Malaysia

The Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on Under-five Mortality in Iran: A Panel Data Analysis

Background Fiscal Decentralization (FD) in many cases is encouraged as a strong means of improving the efficiency and equity in the provision of public goods, such as healthcare services. This issue has urged the researchers to experimentally examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization indicators and health outcomes. In this study we examine the effect of Fiscal Decentralization in...

Determinants of maternal mortality in Eastern Mediterranean re-gion: A panel data analysis

Background: As one of the main criteria of health outcomes, maternal mortality indicates the socioeconomic development level of countries. The present study aimed at identifying and analyzing the effective factors on maternal mortality in Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organization (WHO).   Methods: Analytical model was developed based on the literature review. P...

Higher Education and Labor Market Imbalances in Iran: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Higher Education (HE) in Iran have been subject to a major expansion and massification in the recent years, in a way that number of students approximately tripled from 2006 to 2016. This would have possibly affected labor market or unemployment rate of the country. Considering both provincial and national level, this study investigates the relationship between HE expansion and unemployment rate...

Financial Reporting Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Data Mining Algorithms

In the last decade, high profile financial frauds committed by large companies in both developed and developing countries were discovered and reported. This study compares the performance of five popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud. The research objects are companies which experienced both fraudulent and non-fraudulent financial statements betw...