Facing a more and more insecure environment, with a rising competition and with major technological changes, enterprises realize that adjusting to the environment and taking advantages of the opportunities it offers means a strategic approach of the actions that are to be taken in order to gain...

The general belief that some degree of market power in the banking sector was necessary to maintain its market stability, has led many countries into attending policies that implicitly or explicitly limit competition. Such policies have modified the banking market structure raising concerns...

A well designed and implemented financial management has a significant contribution for firms' growth. This growth is measured by the firm's adequacy of solvency and to maintain liquidity powers. The purpose of this study is to assess this adequacy level between liquidity and solvency in Indian...

Forecasting exchange rate is very important for monetary policy makers in order to prevent unexpected changes of exchange rate. This paper has used Newton's method for forecasting exchange rate of U.S. dollar/pound (24/03/2003—17/11/2011) in Iranian economy. Comparison of the original trends...

This article investigates empirically whether foreign and domestic credit rating agencies tightened their standards for evaluating Japanese regional banks from 2000 to 2009. We extend and enhance previous studies by estimating an ordered probit model using pooled data for this period. Our...

The aim of the paper is to implement the algorithm for selecting stocks from a pool of stocks listed in a single market index like S&P CNX 500(say) and finding the corresponding weights of the stocks in the optimized portfolio using Treynor's ratio, on the basis of historical data of Indian...

Though India has a long history of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, the actual FDI postindependence was quite low. Post-1991 liberalization policies supported inflow of FDI. Overall there is increase in foreign trade from 1991 to 2012 however the annual growth has not been consistent...

Dealing with a competitive, regional, national and international business environment, it is compulsorily needed to know the risks that can occur in the economic and financial activity of a firm. The insufficient knowledge of risk, its wrong evaluation and the lack of prevention strategy...

Liberalization of 1991 is a major turning point in the history of post-independence India. Overall both exports and imports of goods have grown from 1991 to 2012, though imports have grown more than exports over the same time period resulting in widening of trade deficit. However the surplus...

In this paper we present a literature review and classification scheme for investment cash flow sensitivity under behavioural corporate finance. The former consists of all published articles between 2000 and 2011 in different journals that are appropriate outlets for BCF research. The articles...