Employee performance evaluations are one type of decision-making process that is embedded with uncertainty and ambiguity before concluding the final index. After reviewing different approaches to achieving such target, ...

We determine the real option value and the optimal launching time of a major project when the project present value follows a stochastic process with fuzzy volatility, and the project has to be delayed until it is deemed ...

Let S = {x1, x2, ..., xn} be a set of n distinct positive integers. The matrix [S] = (sij) having the greatest common divisor (xi, xj) of xi and xj as its i, j-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix on ...

We exploit the effectiveness of the Davies Report (2011), which urged FTSE 350 companies to increase female representation on corporate boards to examine the potential effect that this may have on the gender pay differential ...

The factors relating to gender pay inequity have been studied extensively in the economics literature. This study examines the earnings differential between males and females in Lebanon utilizing a random sample that ...

Integration of fuzzy systems with genetic algorithm has been identified by researchers as a useful technique of optimizing systems under uncertainty. This integration is usually referred to as Genetic Fuzzy systems (GFS) ...

Three facts have characterized the pre-crisis debates in macroeconomics: the increase in the US current account de cit, the decline in interest rates and the increase in the share of US assets in global portfolios. ...

This study builds on the MBA project work of one of the authors, Hanin A. Smahta, and the supervisory work of the first two authors. All authors were affiliated with the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American ...

This article aims to examine the causal impact of the Arab Spring (AS) and government institutions on the finance–growth nexus. The empirical analysis is implemented for extensive firm-level panel data combined with national ...