journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, ser. 64/3     extended abstract   an analysis of the effects of growth opportunities on financial leverage of companies listed on tehran stock exchange   dr. s. samadi                  s. soheili                   v. kabiripour isfahan university   introduction the ability of companies in identifying the potential financial sources to ...

For many natural systems there is an advantage in their simulating on a computer. In this article, a way how to determine the influence of the predator-prey simulation’s parameters on the model’s behaviour based on the leverage points is examined. An investigation whether it is possible to sort the parameters according to the importance and if it is possible to automate the process to a certain...

The presence of clusters in a data set is sometimes due to the existence of certain relations among the measured variables which vary depending on some hidden factors. In these cases, observations could be grouped in a natural way around linear and nonlinear structures and, thus, the problem of doing robust clustering around linear affine subspaces has recently been tackled through the minimiza...

1 Dario Nardi, University of California Los Angeles, Program in Computing, Math Sciences 6363, Los Angeles, CA 90095 [email protected] Abstract—Systems concepts like non-linearity and feedback are relevant in many fields, but interactive software to demonstrate these concepts are uncommon. Three mini-applications are discussed. These applications are relatively simple in programming and desi...

New Zealand has a poor rate of immunisation in comparison to other OECD countries. Immunisation is a major public health issue as it is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. However, high immunisation rates are required to realise the full benefit of immunisation programmes. In this paper we use Systems Thinking to identify principal dynamics that underlie immunisation system and...

A successful knowledge management strategy identifies a firm’s key leverage points essential to achieve business results. These often reside in core business processes that may be re-engineered to capitalize on and expand organizational knowledge resources and capabilities. This case describes a 4-year initiative undertaken by IBM to re-engineer its customer relationship management process and ...

Integrated supply chains are one of the most powerful competitive tools in today's globalizing business economy. For agricultural products, successful supply chain development projects reduce not only the transaction costs but also the institutional barriers that decouple individual links in traditional distribution channels. They allow participants to achieve higher levels of service and to ca...

Traditionally, autonomous cars make predictions about other drivers’ future trajectories, and plan to stay out of their way. This tends to result in defensive and opaque behaviors. Our key insight is that an autonomous car’s actions will actually affect what other cars will do in response, whether the car is aware of it or not. Our thesis is that we can leverage these responses to plan more eff...

T paper proposes a new methodology to infer investors’ expectations about the speed of leverage adjustment implicit in the prices of credit instruments. On average, the credit markets imply a fairly rapid annual speed of adjustment of 26% toward a firm’s predicted leverage. The speed varies considerably across partitions formed by the differential implications of the pecking order, market timin...

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of allowing for nominal debt contracts in the context of a quantitative business cycle model with financial market frictions. In our setting, as in reality, corporations fund themselves by choosing the appropriate mix of nominal defaultable debt and equity securities to issue in every period. Corporate debt is priced fairly taking into account defa...