As a growing industry in Iran, the insurance industry has dramatically grasped researchers' and managers' attention. Among the various issues in this industry, measuring and evaluating the efficiency and performance of its units and branches has always been considered by relevant experts because...

It is generally understood that well functioning banks and financial institutions help promote economic growth. That's why Iranian government is trying to play active role to promote economic growth through well established banking and financial system. This survey shows that after interference...

This study emphasizes that it is interesting to study the opinion of the auditor as intermediary information between the company and external users throughout audit report. Throughout questionnaire usable data were collected from different participants. The results of this study show that audit...

Managerial Entrenchment means that management control a significant portion of the equity in the firm and his/her actions is inconsistent with maximizing aim of the Institute. This research examined the impact of managerial entrenchment on cost of capital stock by analyzing of changes in levels....

This study aims to use gray models to predict abnormal stock returns. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2005-2015. The analyses portray three models, namely, the gray model, the nonlinear gray Bernoulli model and the Nash...

The present study investigates the relationship between management characteristics (managerial entrenchment, CEO narcissism, overconfidence, board effort, real and accrual-based earnings management) and the audit report readability of listed firms. In other words, this paper seeks to answer the...

In the current study, we investigate the impacts of social capital (SC) and intellectual capital (IC) on audit fees among the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Since the criteria for the norms and the networks are extremely correlated, we used a principal component analysis...

The present study aims to investigate the effects of mandatory requirements of audit firm rotation on earnings management among companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The study population consists of 1030 observations and 103 companies listed on the TSE during the years 2003-2012;...

Purpose: The present study aims to examine the effects of the Islamic sacred months, namely, Muḥarram, Rajab, Dhu al-Qaʿdah and Dhu al-Qaʿijjah, on stock prices on the Iran and Iraq Stock Exchanges. Design/methodology/approach Using the infrastructure models of the capital market, the daily...

This study investigates the impact of investment efficiency on firm value with a moderating role of institutional ownership and board independence for companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The information from 177 companies in 2014-2021 was examined. Tobin's Q is a common measure...