We examine the effect of top management team (TMT) professional finance experience on firm investment efficiency. Top managers with a career background in help reduce deviations from level warranted by fundamentals. Reductions inefficiencies are achieved financial expert using project-specific rather than company-wide, discount rates for project evaluation and facilitating debt equity issuance ...

This study aims to identify the factors affecting government support for Iranian automotive industry. Initially, based on the research literature, a set of factors was identified and designed as an analytic network process model. To investigate the analytic network model using the Delphi method, the opinion of 25 experts associated with government support for the automotive industry was used to...

Market participants and businesses have made tremendous efforts to make the best decisions in a timely manner under varying economic and business circumstances. As such, decision-making processes based on financial data have been a popular topic in industries. However, analyzing financial data is a non-trivial task due to large volume, diversity and complexity, and this has led to rapid researc...

In this paper we describe two systems designed to connect users to distributed, continuously changing experts and their knowledge. Using information retrieval, information extraction, and collaborative filtering techniques, these systems are able to enhance corporate knowledge management by overcoming traditional problems of knowledge acquisition and maintenance and associated (human and financ...

Credit risk management is a key issue for any company at anytime, but is especially important in the case of the banking industry. This fact is more than evident in times of financial crises, when financial institutions can suffer high losses due to unpaid credits. For this reason, international financial supervisors and authorities have forced banks to monitor their credit risk and this risk i...

We examine the problem of discrete stock price prediction using a synthesis of linguistic, financial and statistical techniques to create the Arizona Financial Text System (AZFinText). The research within this paper seeks to contribute to the AZFinText system by comparing AZFinText’s predictions against existing quantitative funds and human stock pricing experts. We approach this line of resear...

it is now more than four decades from providing and execution of iran’s first comprehensive urban plan. evaluation of this plan shows that the process of execution has not been successful. considering the literature review, field study as well as comparing the plan’s documents, it is thought that lack of coordination between the urban planning organizations, the manner of providing and executio...