dividend policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. this study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in tehran stock exchange. based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. to test the research hypotheses, this study uses fixed effe...

might be measured on a single scale. In human applica-New York, New York 10003 tions this measure is provided by 'utility'—a somewhat artificial and uncomfortable concept: In biology, Darwin-ian fitness provides a natural and genuinely one-dimen-Behavioral ecologists argue that evolution drives ani-sional scale. " mal behavior to efficiently solve the problems animals By anchoring economic theo...

this paper uses a multivariate garch model to simultaneously estimate the mean and conditional variance using daily returns among different tehran sector indexes from tir 1386 to tir 1391. since different financial assets are traded based on these sector indexes, it is important for financial market participants to understand the volatility transmission mechanism over time and across sectors in...

Pricing is one of the major aspects of decision making in supply chain. In the previous works mostly a centralized environment is considered indicating the retailers cannot independently apply their decisions on the pricing strategy. Although in a two-echelon decentralized environment it may be possible that supply chain contributors have encountered with different market power situations which...

Behavioral ecologists argue that evolution drives animal behavior to efficiently solve the problems animals face in their environmental niches. The ultimate evolutionary causes of decision making, they contend, can be found in economic analyses of organisms and their environments. Neurobiologists interested in how animals make decisions have, in contrast, focused their efforts on understanding ...

Critics object that the Everett view cannot make sense of quantum probabilities, in one or both of two ways: either it cannot make sense of probability at all, or it cannot explain why probability should be governed by the Born rule. David Deutsch has attempted to meet these objections by appealing to an Everettian version of Savage’s rational decision theory. Deutsch argues not only that an an...