the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between free cash flows and stock return considering managers' myopia. two hypotheses have been designed and tested, selecting 96 firms from accepted companies in the tehran stock exchange for six-year period from 2005 to 2010 and using stock return for three years ahead (to 2012). the results show that free cash flows are negati...

The present study aims to investigate the association between political connections and related-party transactions for the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Sample includes the 485 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2013 to 2017 and research hypothesis was tested using multivariate regression model based on panel data.We fin...

The stock selection problem is one of the major issues in the investment industry, which is mainly solved by analyzing financial ratios. However, considering the complexity and imprecise patterns of the stock market, obvious and easy-to-understand investment rules, based on fundamental analysis, are difficult to obtain. Fundamental and technical analyses are two common methods for predicting th...

in this research, role of accruals in elaboration of quality of earning of the companies accepted in mumbai stock exchange has been studied and relationship between quality of earning through accruals and its constituents and abnormal stock return has been studied. the studied sample includes 35 companies in group a of mumbai stock exchange in 2009-2013.fordata analysisandhypothesistesting mult...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.056 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Beh Multi-Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) or Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have received much attention from researchers and practitioners in evaluating, assessing and ranking alternatives across diverse industries. Among ...

Background: According to the sustainable development theory, managers have a high incentive to observe ethical principles in business operations. However, some of the immoral behaviors of managers in earnings manipulation lead to ethical failures in companies. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between sustainable development performance and managers’ immoral...

The stock selection problem is one of the major issues in the investment industry, which is mainly solved by analyzing financial ratios. However, considering the complexity and imprecise patterns of the stock market, obvious and easy-to-understand investment rules, based on fundamental analysis, are difficult to obtain. Fundamental and technical analyses are two common methods for predicting th...

this research aims to use var as a risk measure to find the optimum portfolio in tehran stock exchange. in this research var which is calculated with parametric method by using the 15 daily returns of 100 companies from march 21, 2001 to november 22, 2007 was added to the markowitz model of portfolio optimization as additional constraint. by changing the accepted var and accepted confidence lev...