Ranking of Financial and Electronic Debts Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Abstract

Abstract Financial and electronic debts are one of the important issues in Iran's financial scope that are considered by economists due to their role in creating financial instabilities. Therefore, a model was represented in this survey to evaluate and rank financial and electronic debts in Iran including foreign debts, governmental debts, non-governmental debts and banking debts during the period 1999-2012 using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). To this end, four indexes of volume of debt, ability to repay, willingness to repay and return rate of debts were identified and paired comparison of debts was conducted given to the research literature in this scope and interview with experts. Then total weight of each index was calculated, score of each index was exploited and finally ranking of all kinds of financial and electronic debts was determined by sum of the score of indexes. Expert Choice 11 software was used to calculate the weights.