Nonfarm activities play an important role in the determination of rural household income, consumption expenditure, and household food security. However, much less studies have been devoted to the factors that influence nonfarm income diversification by farm household in developing countries. Using cross-sectional data and a probit model, this study attempts to determine the factors influencing ...

Regulators and managers in the banking sector prioritize system’s stability safety to limit risks, shocks, potential losses. This study reveals why a bank is more or less stable via capital, liquidity creation, asset diversification. We form structural model which capital affects through diversification moderates relationship between of banks. employ moderated mediation Partial Least Squares St...

Popular belief holds that banking consolidation will result in a small number of large monopoly banks that can achieve substantial economies of scale and outperform small competitors. But research suggests that small banks are sometimes more efficient than their large counterparts. One competitive strategy undertaken by numerous small banks is agricultural lending. Agricultural lending is thoug...

iranian banks can not freely determine their interest rates in the financial market. this characteristic causes banking industry unable to perform their duties of financial intermediaries in the transmission mechanism of monetary. in these circumstances, monetary shocks will have a significant and high effect on the alternative markets (like stocks and housing). in this study, we used dynamic s...

The right to health accepted as an essential human right.The US administration’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal on May 2018, increased attention to the impact of sanctions on the health of more than 80 million Iranians. Sanctions will damage the Iran public health-care system, notably patients suffered from cancer. Cancers are the third cause of death in Iran. Diagnosis of malignancy is ...

The opinions expressed are those of the BlackRock Investment Instititute as of August 2011, and may change as subsequent conditions vary. } The emerging markets (EMs) have provided major investment opportunities over the last decade—whether in the equity, fixed income or currency spaces. } The global growth landscape and investment opportunity set have changed significantly in recent years, but...

non-performing assets (npas) have been a major cause of concern for indian commercial banks in the recent past years. many studies have been reported on the different aspects of npas in indian banking system. however, there is a crucial lack of investigation on the comparative assessment of various types of banks such as public sector banks, private sector banks and foreign banks so that the tr...

Electricity Storage is a key activity in the European Union’s (EU) decarbonisation strategy. Indeed, storage facilitates penetration of electricity from renewable sources into grid by reducing variability generation. Despite its importance, still perceived as risky activity. The risk derives widespread need to secure multiple revenue streams order ensure profitability. This article investigates...

Generally, high oil prices slow economic growth, cause inflationary pressures and creates global imbalances. In addition, oil price volatility increase uncertainty and restrain the much-needed investment in the capital market. Thus, this paper applies the Augmented Dickey Fuller and Johansen Co-integration Tests in which the effect of oil price volatility, crude oil price and stock price is ana...