Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Prof., Department of Finance, Faculty of Management, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Prof., Department of Industrial Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Prof., Department of Management, Medical Science Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The stock exchange is considered to be an important establishment to finance long term projects, on one hand, and to collect savings and finance of private section. The stock exchange can be a safe and secure place to invest surplus funds to purchase corporate stocks. As recession and prosperity in this market can have a great role in stockholders` decision-making, it becomes vital to predict these cycles. In this paper, using model MSMH(4)AR(2), we extract the financial cycles of the market. Then, using the ant colony algorithm, we determine the most significant predictors and predict the market financial cycles using neural networks. The results show that the PNN model performs better in predicting the future market with respect to the criteria of mean squared error, the root mean squared error, the model accuracy and kappa coefficient.

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