In this study, a financial performance index is calculated for the 1989-1998 period in order to analyze the profit generating capability of Turkish commercial banks, observe the effect of scale and mode of ownership on bank behavior and therefore bank performance. Another purpose of the study is...

This study applies the Markowitz analysis to the Istanbul Stock Exchange and empirically investigates the performance of this tool in an emerging market setting. The results show that during the early years of establishment of an emerging stock exchange, an active strategy of mean variance...

This paper summarizes work performed in evaluating shortage costs associated with stockouts for each of a manufacturer's seven thousand catalogued line items. A modified version of a decision tree model proposed by Yu Chang is employed in a determination of estimated unit shortage costs for a...

A number of manpower planning models are developed and optimized. The models are dynamic feed forward models and treat people as the only flow variable. The flow originates by considering a particular population of eligible persons and then traces them through the educational and economic...

This paper presents a structural and a mathematical framework for the analysis and/or synthesis of a large class of production systems. Service and/or goods producing enterprises are considered to be production systems. The structural framework consists of a generalized schematic involving...

This article presents a mathematical model describing the most general case in equipment investment policy. A systematic study of all other cases in the order of decreasing complexity follows. The general model reduces to their present worth all disbursements and receipts involved in the...