in this study, the relative performance of mazandaran wood and paper company as a major supplier of paper products in iran was measured. network data envelopment analysis (dea) models with parallel structure were used to evaluate and measure its performance. gams software version 23.4 was used for data analysis. results indicated that this company in all studied years had good performances base...

While economic deterrence models are fully based on maximizing economic utility; social psychology models explain human behavior by examining the underlying attitudes, norms and beliefs. Tax morale is defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes. However, determinants of tax morale need to be investigated for a more comprehensive understanding of tax morale. In this paper we analyze the mos...

in this paper the conditional location problem is discussed. conditional location problems have a wide range of applications in location science. a new meta-heuristic algorithm for solving conditional p-median problems is proposed and results are compared to those of the previous studies. this algorithm produces much better results than the previous formulations.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the out-of-sample performance of SETAR models relative to a linear AR and a GARCH model using daily data for the Euro effective exchange rate. The evaluation is conducted on point, interval and density forecasts, unconditionally, over the whole forecast period, and conditional on specific regimes. The results show that overall the GARCH model is better able t...

This paper examines the hedging effectiveness of gold futures for the stock market in minimizing variance and downside risks, including value at risk and expected shortfall using data from the Iran emerging capital market during four different sub-periods from December 2008 to August 2018. We employ dynamic conditional correlation models including VARMA-BGARCH (DCC, ADCC, BEKK, and ABEKK) and c...