Evaluating the Factors Affecting on Credit Ratings of Accepted Corporates in Tehran Securities Exchange by Using Factor Analysis and AHP

Subject Areas : Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and its Application in Financial Management

Ahmad Mohammaddoost ¹ , Mir Feiz Falah Shams Dialestani ² , Madjid Eshaghi Gordji ³ , Ali Ebadian ⁴

1 - Department of Mathematics, Payame Noor University Tehran, Iran
2 - Business Faculty, Tehran Central Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Mathematics, Semnan University,, Semnan, Iran.
4 - Department of Mathematics, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Received: 2020-05-10 Accepted : 2020-09-01 Published : 2021-01-01

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