BACKGROUND The inverse relation between energy density (kcal/g) and energy cost (price/kcal) has been interpreted to suggest that produce (fruit, vegetables) is more expensive than snacks (cookies, chips). OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to show the methodologic weakness of comparing energy density with energy cost. DESIGN The relation between energy density and energy cost was re...

The positive relation between stock price changes and trading volume (price–volume relationship) as a stylized fact has attracted significant interest among finance researchers and investment practitioners. However, until now, consensus has not been reached regarding the causes of the relationship based on real market data because extracting valuable variables (such as information-driven trade ...

Kim, Price Mueller & Watson (1996) Price and Mueller’s Model is comprehensive employee turnover model which captures 360 degree view of the determinants of employee turnover. Its comprises of Individual determinants, Structural determinants, Environmental determinants, Process variables and correlates. In this paper, initially we studied the impact of age, salary and marital status of the corre...

This paper aims to determine the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by taking firms listed on Tehran stock exchange.  A sample of 68 listed companies from Tehran stock exchange is examined for a period from 2001 to 2012.  The estimation is based on cross-sectional ordinary least square regression analysis to find the relationship between share price volatility and dividend poli...

interest as investment opportunity cost or in other words cost of obtaining the credit requirement in the production process, have a key role in the good's cost price and hence it's necessary to control this kind of variables that have harmful effects on the interest rate's trends. among this, the unexpected changes in some variables that can have destructive effects on interest ...

This paper addresses the problem of durable goods manufacturers in an oligopoly seeking optimal values for three decision variables: product warranty, reliability and price. Each ®rm seeks a warranty-reliability-price combination that maximizes expected pro®t subject to quite general constraints on the ®rm's decision variables. Warranty serves as a signal of product reliability, which is not ob...

This focus of this paper are the effect, implication, impact and realtionship between selected macroeconomic variables and wider US indices S&P 500 and industrial Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). I Consider inflation, interest rates, money supply, producer price index, industrial production index, oil price and unemployment and their impact on selected stock indices in the USA between 1999 ...

abstract this paper sketches a model of product differentiation according to the hedonic hypothesis that is based on the theory of consumer behavior of lancaster (1971). lancaster suggested that utility is derived from the characteristics of the good and not the good itself. thus, from the perception of the consumer, every characteristic has a price. this is the hedonic (or implicit) price. we ...

Improving return forecasting is very important for both investors and researchers in financial markets. In this study we try to aim this object by two new methods. First, instead of using traditional variable, gold prices have been used as predictor and compare the results with Goyal's variables. Second, unlike previous researches new machine learning algorithm called Deep learning (DP) has bee...