The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the structure of the Iranian banking system and to measure the market power factor based on the Boone approach. In this paper, we investigated the Iranian organized money market, including 18 banks operating in the period of 2008-2015. To calculate the marginal cost (MC), we used a Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function. Findings based on the ...

Background: Tea is one of the most popular beverages all over the world which is prepared from the leaves of a shrub camellia sinensis. Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey which account for around 100% of all tea production in Turkey was among the areas contaminated by Chernobyl accident. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive study was planned and carried out to determine the level of ...

the root lesion nematode tea,pratylenchus loosi, is currently the most important damage-causing factor of tea in iran and all over the world. this nematode is considered as the most damage-causing factor of tea in many tea-producing countries including sri lanka, china, india, japan and bngladesh. in recent years, it’s also considered as a key disease and damage-causing of tea that cause to sev...

Regarding the tea quality, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has established recently the levels of minimum concentrations of total polyphenols in tea. Because of this standard, the commercial exploitation of tea demands the investigation of the levels of total polyphenols. However, it is quite difficult for most producers and traders to implement because this test is lab...

background & aims of the study: tea is one of the most important beverages that consumes in several parts of the world including iran. tea plant can be contaminated during manufacturing processes and growth period by pollutants such as heavy metals. in this study, the concentration of some heavy metals in different brands of both iranian and imported black tea to iran was investigated to survey...

We characterize the impact of the auctioneer in a large market in the context of tea auctions in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Rather than naïvely applying agency logic, we argue that the auctioneer’s behavior is better understood using the lens of market design. In a rapidly moving auction, with four lots of teas sold per minute, we find that there is positive externality on subsequent lots from rai...

A research was carried out so as to determine the effect of Iranian green tea (IGT) powder in diet on blood metabolites and carcass traits of broiler chickens. Therefore, considered four treatments consisting (basic diet + IGT 5g/kg feed, basic diet + IGT 10g/kg feed, basic diet + IGT 15g/kg feed and one control diet without additive), and three replicates (15 chicks per repea...