With a raster Digital Elevation Model, it is usual to associate a directed graph. Firstly, the problem of defining cost functions for such digraphs is discussed in a general and formal framework, and a particularly simple and natural way to tackle this problem is proposed. Secondly, the notion of profitability, which is commonly linked with the notion of cost, is put forward. Thus, profitabilit...

This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of 12 branches of the agricultural bank in Guilan province, Iran over the period of 2012-2016. The first results indicated that scale inefficiency contributed more to overall technical inefficiency than pure technical inefficiency over the studied period. Results of return to scale r...

this study investigates the relationship between market structure and profitability in the iranian manufacturing industries. in this study, raw data based on international standard industrial classification (at four digit code) has been used. fixed effects panel estimation method (based on diagnostic test results) has been chosen for empirical investigation. the result of the study confirms the...

The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing profitability in a feedlot environment and to estimate genetic parameters for and between a feedlot profit function and productive traits measured in growth tests. The heritability estimate of 0.36 for feedlot profitability shows that this trait is genetically inherited and that it can be selected for. The genetic correlations between fe...

The current study aims to investigate the relationship between stock liquidity risk and financial information quality criteria (i.e. the timely dividends announcement, accruals quality and the percentage of profitability prediction error) of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, 148 cases of data from listed companies, collected from 2007 to 2012, were employed in ord...

This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...

This study examines the determinants of bank profitability in China over the period 2003-2009. The determinants are divided into three groups: bank-specific, industryspecific and macroeconomic variables. The two-step General Method of Moments (GMM) system estimator is used. The results show that there is a positive relationship between bank profitability, cost efficiency, banking sector develop...

The main objective of this research is studying the relationship between working capital management and profitability. Cash conversion cycle is one of the important measuring tools to calculate the efficiency of working capital management. The time realm of the research was 2001-2006 and the studied companies have been the ones accepted in Tehran stock exchange. In general, out of 2628 companie...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining credit union (CU) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries, together with empirical estimation for a unique sample of Latin American CUs. Delinquency and profitability were found to be responsive to the incentives that CUs create for their borrowers to repay loans. These incentives include loan and deposit rates, the us...

Prior research shows that firms generating earnings growth by improving profitability create shareholder value, while firms generating earnings growth through investment destroy value. This paper examines whether compensation committees consider this while determining CEO compensation. We first confirm prior results that growth from increased profitability is perceived by markets to add value w...