dividend policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. this study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in tehran stock exchange. based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. to test the research hypotheses, this study uses fixed effe...

t he investigation of exchange rate pass-through is an important issue in international finance. the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and exchange rate arrangements such as the dollarization regime has been examined in recent decades. for this purpose, the main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of exchange rate pass-through on the domestic inflation in selecte...

â â â  â â â â â â â â â â â  financial sector is one of the most influential sectors in economic activities. empirical and theoretical studies conducted in recent years have also confirmed the significant role of financial institutions in economic growth. additionally, trade and financial liberalization policies have been particular concerned with strategic policies in developed and developing...

t his paper investigates the impact of monetary policies on the exchange rate of selected developing countries during the period 2001-2010. for this purpose, in addition to the theoretical explanation, dynamic panel data based on the generalized method of moments (gmm) have been used to estimate the model. our findings indicate that the lag of exchange rate variable has a positive and signific...

in a general classification, the economy of any country is divided into two parts of official and invisible economies. invisible activities drop outside the scope of the law and official economy and strongly affect socioeconomic development and the formal sector of all countries.these activities which are known under various titles including the shadow economy are influenced by various factors....

the increase of greenhouse gases (ghg) in which co2 emissions constitute the principal component, is of major environmental problems of all societies. economic growth impels intensive use of resources and as a result, more residues and wastes thrown in the nature that could lead to environmental degradation. this article tries to trace the eventual relationship between trade openness and enviro...

This entry describes the basic framework for statistical estimation and inference using Generalized Method of Moments and also illustrates the types of empirical models in finance to which these techniques have been applied. GeneralizedMethod of Moments (GMM) provides a computationally convenientmethod of obtaining consistent and asymptotically normally distributed estimators of the parameters ...