After the recent financial crisis, many types of government policies have been debated as possible remedies, but most of them are still controversial. This paper considers two: (A) limiting the growth of financial firms; (B) taxing financial transactions. It strengthens the arguments for both by means of the recently proposed rationality-allocation analysis, which broadens the view of financial...

Because of the Increasing competition between enterprises in the current competitive market, the importance of continuous performance evaluation in the marketplace has increased. It has become increasingly important for banks, because as a key component of the financial system, banks allocate funds from savers to borrowers in an efficient manner to support economic activities. Along with the in...

This chapter gives a number of criteria that can be used for the evaluation of simulation software. According to Law and Kelton (1991), simulation software can be classified as simulation languages and simulators. However, in this study the term ‘simulation software’ is mainly used for discussing data driven simulators, and all criteria are derived and described from the perspective of this typ...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) World Health Report 2010, “Health systems financing, the path to universal coverage,” promoted universal health coverage (UHC) as an aspirational objective for country health systems. Yet, in addition to the dimensions of services and coverage, distribution of coverage in the population, and financial risk protection highlighted by the report, the conside...

the results of examination of annual financial statements by independent experts (auditors) are presented in reports. we have tried to examine and evaluate the activities of two important professions of accountancy and auditing in iran, in preparing and validating annual financial statements, and relate these evaluations to group behavior of share – holders and analyses of stock – brokers. for ...