Public Economics
Ramin Amani; Saman Ghaderi; Khaled Ahmadzadeh
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Covid-19 has affected the world’s economy since 2019. The coronavirus pandemic is one of the most severe and dangerous problems that humanity has faced in the last century. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on the inflation rate in the 36 OECD member countries. Monthly ...
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Covid-19 has affected the world’s economy since 2019. The coronavirus pandemic is one of the most severe and dangerous problems that humanity has faced in the last century. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on the inflation rate in the 36 OECD member countries. Monthly data on Covid-19 and the inflation rate from February 2020 to August 2021 and the quantile panel regression method have been used to achieve this purpose. The results show that new cases of Covid-19 decrease the inflation rate in all quantiles, which means that by increasing the number of Covid-19 cases, economic activities decrease because of the business restrictions. Moreover, the new deaths of Covid-19 have a dual impact on the inflation rate in OECD countries. With increasing in Covid-19 deaths, business restrictions have increased, the economy has entered a recession, and inflation has decreased. On the other hand, the growth of Covid-19 casualties could increase economic uncertainty and inflation. Furthermore, Covid-19 vaccinations have positive and significant effects on the inflation rate in OECD countries. Accordingly, policymakers are advised to include increasing vaccine injections, especially booster doses, to increase economic activity and prosperity in OECD and world economies. Furthermore, Covid-19 showed the necessity of preparing the world against infectious diseases in the future.
Esmaiel Abounoori; Jamal Moumivand
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The main objective of this study is to analyze spillover fluctuations between inflation fluctuation and (un)employment fluctuation in relation to agriculture, industry and services sectors of Iran. In line with this, PANEL in Mean-MGARCH model has been used concerning Iran’s agriculture, industry ...
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The main objective of this study is to analyze spillover fluctuations between inflation fluctuation and (un)employment fluctuation in relation to agriculture, industry and services sectors of Iran. In line with this, PANEL in Mean-MGARCH model has been used concerning Iran’s agriculture, industry and services sectors over the period of time from spring 2002 to winter 2016. The results show that inflation fluctuations in each sector would spillover into the next period of all agriculture, industry and services sectors. (Un)employment fluctuations in each sector do not spillover into the next period of that sector or other sectors. The inflation and un(employment) fluctuations (conditional covariance) in each sector spillover into the joint inflation and un(employment) fluctuations of that sector and the other sectors.
Ezatollah Abbasian; Ali Yehea Nemer
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Objectives: The Tehran Stock Exchange fell in recession in December 2013, as it roughly persisted until the end of 2015. However, there are significant differences in the various industries both in terms of the beginning of recession and in terms of the end of recession. By the evaluation of the Bulls ...
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Objectives: The Tehran Stock Exchange fell in recession in December 2013, as it roughly persisted until the end of 2015. However, there are significant differences in the various industries both in terms of the beginning of recession and in terms of the end of recession. By the evaluation of the Bulls and Bears Markets in the major industries in the Tehran Stock Exchange, the recession contexts can be identified and indicated. Method: In the present study, the Lunde and Timmermann approach is applied to identify the situation of the different industries during the period of November 2008 to February 2016 and, Cox regression is used to examine the impact of the industry type and the main macroeconomic variables effect on the continuation of the Bears Market.Result and Conclusions: The results indicated that since the beginning towards the end of the recession between the under-study industries, there are many differences, which can be used as a criterion to identify the key industries in the recession of the capital market. In addition, the results of Cox regression indicate that the type of industry and the inflation rate have a significant effect on the continuation of the Bears Market.
Ahmed Yakubu; Mohammed Adebayo Ojuolape; Jemeel Sanni
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Transportation is a necessity if the day-to-day economic activities of the society must move on. There are different modes of informal transport available in Nigeria. This study evaluated the determinants of the modal choice of informal transport among commuters in North central city of Ilorin, Nigeria. ...
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Transportation is a necessity if the day-to-day economic activities of the society must move on. There are different modes of informal transport available in Nigeria. This study evaluated the determinants of the modal choice of informal transport among commuters in North central city of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study used primary data generated through a structured questionnaire administered to 100 commuters randomly selected in Ilorin metropolis. The study used a multinomial logit model for data analysis. The results showed that earnings and household size were the core determinants of the choice of informal transport mode. The study concluded that different informal transport modes available to the commuters gave them the opportunity to make choices based on their income and the transport cost in Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria.
Majid Maddah; Mohammad Mehdi Berijanian; Mohammad Sadegh Ghazizadeh
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Environmental problems are one of the most challenging issues for the entire world and each country. In economic studies, environmental issues are analyzed as negative externalities. In this article, the negative externalities of electricity production on the output growth of different sectors and household’s ...
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Environmental problems are one of the most challenging issues for the entire world and each country. In economic studies, environmental issues are analyzed as negative externalities. In this article, the negative externalities of electricity production on the output growth of different sectors and household’s welfare in Iran’s economy have been studied through price system using Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model empirically. In this regard, Iran’s Social Accounting Matrix of 2011 and GAMS software by introducing five scenarios related to environmental effects of electricity production have been used. The results show that firstly, the internalization of electricity production externalities reduces the output of agriculture and industry sectors in all scenarios, while the output of services will increase. Secondly, internalization of electricity production externalities increases total economy’s output and declines the household’s welfare.
Mohamad Reza Zare Mehrjerdi; Maryam Ziaabadi; Fatemeh Irani-Kermani
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Abstract In order to study energy consumption in Iran's agricultural sector, a Genetic algorithm concept was used to calculate significant factors affecting energy consumption between 1974 and 2008. Then, durability or "stability" of variables was assessed through econometric method (Augmented Dickey-Fuller ...
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Abstract In order to study energy consumption in Iran's agricultural sector, a Genetic algorithm concept was used to calculate significant factors affecting energy consumption between 1974 and 2008. Then, durability or "stability" of variables was assessed through econometric method (Augmented Dickey-Fuller test). In addition, long-term and short-term relationships of energy consumption were estimated using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Results of this study reveal that intensity of energy consumption variables in agricultural sector and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are of great importance and have a considerable impact on energy consumption in agricultural sector of Iran. Therefore, these factors can be beneficial for policies of energy consumption conservation in agriculture sector.
International Economics
Zahra Mahdavi Sabet; Mohammad Ali Abdolvand; Kambiz Heidarzadeh; Mohsen Khounsiavash
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Organizations enter into the international competitive markets because of different motivates such as: gaining international reputation, achieving long-term growth, increasing profitability, taking advantages of economies of scale, domestic market maturity, the intensity of competition in domestic market, ...
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Organizations enter into the international competitive markets because of different motivates such as: gaining international reputation, achieving long-term growth, increasing profitability, taking advantages of economies of scale, domestic market maturity, the intensity of competition in domestic market, governmental rules and regulations; but actually all of the companies concerns of organizations is to improve export performance. Given the sanctions on the oil industry in Iran and the lack of a comprehensive model of export performance of Iranian petroleum products, this research can help improve and develop this industry in global markets. The statistical society of this mixed research method includes Iranian Petroleum Exporters Association. According to the first qualitative research, non-probability and snowball sampling method was used in this research; for gathering information, 7 semi-structured depth interview was used. Regarding the quantitative research in the second study, probable and random sampling method was used in this research. A Likert Spectrum Questionnaire of 5-point scale was used to gather information. In the first study, after open, pivotal and selective coding and using Atlas qualitative software, recommended antecedents of Iranian oil products export performance includes: market orientation, marketing mix, company resources, and macro environmentand export performance itemsof Iranian oil products includes: financial performance, customer retention and customer satisfaction. In the second study, 19 variables with several cases and continuity domains were proposed. 57 items were used to measure structures and all 16 hypotheses were supported.
Monetary economics
Vahideh Sotoudeh Mollashahi; Mohammad Talebi; Mohammad Ali Rastegar; Ramin Mojab
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After the financial crisis of 2007-2009, in which liquidity problems led to insolvency and consequently the bankruptcy of many large banks and financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision introduced liquidity requirements for the most part to reduce the possibility ...
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After the financial crisis of 2007-2009, in which liquidity problems led to insolvency and consequently the bankruptcy of many large banks and financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision introduced liquidity requirements for the most part to reduce the possibility of bank insolvency caused by liquidity shocks. This research develops an agent-based model of a banking system to be used to analyze the impact of the liquidity requirements on the solvency position of banks. The model devises a banking system with 12 heterogeneous banks in which banks perform their traditional activities namely taking deposits and making loans. Banks can fulfill their liquidity needs by engaging in interbank lending, selling their securities, and using central bank lending assistance. The model aims to study the behavior of different banks in response to imposing liquidity requirements. This model is calibrated using the data of Iranian listed banks during 2018-2020. Liquidity requirements are measured using liquidity coverage ratio, and the solvency position of a bank is measured using the capital adequacy ratio. The results of the simulations demonstrate that as liquidity requirements increase, the solvency position of some banks improves, some banks deteriorate, and some remain unchanged. Regarding this reaction among other various factors, profitability, inflow, and outflow of liquidity, and finally, the outflow rate parameter play an essential role.
Mahshid Shahchera
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Banks may well perform differently in lending to firms according to their funding structure. This paper surveys the relation between Loan volatility and deposit in Iranian banking system. The extent to which bank lending is connected to funding structure is affected by the banks’ characteristics ...
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Banks may well perform differently in lending to firms according to their funding structure. This paper surveys the relation between Loan volatility and deposit in Iranian banking system. The extent to which bank lending is connected to funding structure is affected by the banks’ characteristics (such as capital structure, profitability, and the measure of non-performing loans). To analyze this relation, therefore, this paper uses Dynamic panel data of banks. This paper using a unique dataset of Iranian banking system and dynamic panel data show that loan volatility has statistically strongly significant effect on the deposits. Banks respond to loan shocks by mainly adjusting their deposits volumes. This paper measures bank uncertainty by measures of bank loan volume volatility and use the GARCH Method. According to the results, Loan SD and loan GARCH as Loan volatility have negative effect on deposit ratio in Iranian banking systems.
Sattar Mehraban; narges Hajimoladarvish; Hossein Raghfar
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This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into ...
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This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from the second round of Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool. Determinants of CHE were identified using logistic regression. We found that the significant effect of insurance on aggregate data was solely determined by its effect on reducing the risk of CHE in social security organization hospitals. Insured people by this organization allocate a higher proportion of their salaries to the health insurance and are admitted to the organizational hospitals free of charge. This finding shows the bias inherited in the aggregation and provides support for full pre-payments mechanisms. Our findings suggest that individuals relate CHE to the chosen hospitals, which, in turn, needs to be based on individuals’ health insurance and socio-economic conditions.
Mohammad Ali Torki Harchegani; Nazar Dahmardeh
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Despite positive aspects of energy consumption, their negative externalities i.e., environmental pollutions, are considerable. Green taxes, paid for products and services that are not environmentally friendly, are recommended as an efficient way of improving health indices. Since, Iran is among the countries ...
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Despite positive aspects of energy consumption, their negative externalities i.e., environmental pollutions, are considerable. Green taxes, paid for products and services that are not environmentally friendly, are recommended as an efficient way of improving health indices. Since, Iran is among the countries with high per capita consumption of energy, pollution can be a kind of threat. In this regard, to simulate the effect of green taxes on Iran’s health sector, we use a general equilibrium model, calibrated by Iran’s Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) in 2011. The results show green taxes reduces all kinds of environmental pollutions. Furthermore, 62% of health costs are spent on mortality, 26.4% on morbidity, and 11.6% on non-health effects.
Tayebeh Nikraftar; Nazanin Falahati
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The aim of this paper was to investigate the processes of organizational innovation in medical tourism businesses. Specifically, this research aimed to answer: ―What is the process of developing medical tourism businesses in a developing country like Iran?‖ For this purpose, a grounded theory approach ...
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The aim of this paper was to investigate the processes of organizational innovation in medical tourism businesses. Specifically, this research aimed to answer: ―What is the process of developing medical tourism businesses in a developing country like Iran?‖ For this purpose, a grounded theory approach was used. In-depth interviews were conducted with fifteen medical tourism entrepreneurs who had experienced the above mentioned process. Analyzing the structure of values and interactions of entrepreneurs with others through their interviews led to the formation of an intermediate theory. The pattern obtained from this study shows that the main category that led to innovations among the studied medical tourism businesses was entrepreneurs’ tendency to create entrepreneurial activities, that is an innovative initiative. Based on our findings, should an innovative entrepreneur be affected by intermediate and environmental conditions, he or she introduces specific strategies to effectively carry out entrepreneurial activities that are discussed in this paper.
Monetary economics
Elham Kamal; Vahid Taghinejadomran
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This paper studies the main fiscal determinants of central bank credibility (CBC) from 1990 to 2014. Covering 25 inflation-targeting (IT) economies, we mainly focus on sovereign debt holders and fiscal rules since adopting the IT framework. As the CBC indicator is highly concentrated in the right tail ...
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This paper studies the main fiscal determinants of central bank credibility (CBC) from 1990 to 2014. Covering 25 inflation-targeting (IT) economies, we mainly focus on sovereign debt holders and fiscal rules since adopting the IT framework. As the CBC indicator is highly concentrated in the right tail of the distribution, the mean-based approaches are incapable of unearthing the fact that the effect of fiscal factors may be asymmetric across the distribution of the credibility index. In departing from the problem, we use a quantile regression method to estimate parameters over the entire conditional distribution of CBC. The asymmetric response using the quantile regression is state-dependent and conditional on the credibility distribution. Having provided a comprehensive survey on the fiscal factors potentially related to the credibility in the literature, we find that fiscal rules are almost prominent at the lower quantiles while debt holders' composition is strongly significant at the upper tails of CBC distribution. These findings are further supported by the slope equality tests, discussed in Koenker & Bassett (1982). These results could be attributed to the more sensitivity of the private sector expectations to the debt holders’ composition. Therefore, central bankers could reduce public expectations by taking into account the non-linear impact of fiscal factors on their credibility.
Social Economic
Fatemeh Bazzazan
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Tourism has not been a growing sector in Iran in recent decades due to political conflicts with the west. Still, there is hope that it grows after lifting the economic and monetary sanctions and may bring both political and economic stability and more foreign tourists to Iran. This paper aims to study ...
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Tourism has not been a growing sector in Iran in recent decades due to political conflicts with the west. Still, there is hope that it grows after lifting the economic and monetary sanctions and may bring both political and economic stability and more foreign tourists to Iran. This paper aims to study the distributional impact of foreign tourist spending in Iran using structural path analysis (SPA) within the SAM framework. The primary databases are the 2011 SAM and foreign tourism spending in 2018. According to the SAM multiplier results, high-income groups benefit significantly from foreign tourists spending and generates more inequality between ten deciles of urban and rural household income groups. Moreover, the SPA approach results indicate that most of the paths affecting household income pass through production factors. Evaluating production factors reveal that mixed-income has a significant contributor to intermediate paths., Its share in global influence for higher-income groups is significantly greater than middle- and low-income groups. Global influence also reveals that compensation of employees for lower household income groups would be affected sharply.
Monetary economics
Roozbeh Balounejad Nouri; Amir Ali Farhang
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the relationship between oil revenue, exchange rate, and M2 on the CPI and PPI, over time of 2005:1-2022:1, was investigated in Iran with QARDL method used. The results showed that, in the short run, all the variables had an asymmetric effect on the CPI and the PPI. oil revenues, in the long run, from ...
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the relationship between oil revenue, exchange rate, and M2 on the CPI and PPI, over time of 2005:1-2022:1, was investigated in Iran with QARDL method used. The results showed that, in the short run, all the variables had an asymmetric effect on the CPI and the PPI. oil revenues, in the long run, from the quantile of 0.05 to the median, the impact of the variable on the inflation would be increased, and then its impact would be decreased. also, in the long run, the effect of the increase on the PPI is greater than the consumer price index. In the long run, the effect of exchange rates on the CPI and the PPI was nonlinear while being symmetric. because from the quantile of 0.2 to 0.8, its effect proportionally increased and then decreased. also, regarding the M2, the results showed that this variable on the CPI and the PPI had an asymmetric effect, in the short run. in this way, from the middle quantile to the quantile of 0.9, its effect was positive and significant, and in the long run, the results confirmed its positive effect on inflation in all quantiles; although, its effect on the PPI was asymmetric.
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This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor as it copied material by corresponding author, previously published in the article ‘‘Trade-based technology transfers and its impact on the Iranian economy: A GTAP model’’, by Bahmani and Nejati, Iran. Econ. Rev. ...
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This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor as it copied material by corresponding author, previously published in the article ‘‘Trade-based technology transfers and its impact on the Iranian economy: A GTAP model’’, by Bahmani and Nejati, Iran. Econ. Rev. Vol.19, No.1, 2015. p.107-122.
Saeed Rasekhi; Zahra Sheidaei
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The aim of this article is to study the firm-level pricing behavior based on the firm’s competitive strategy through the exchange rate pass-through. Using Iranian export price microdata, we provide new empirical evidence on how firm’s exchange rate pass-through depends on firm’s strategic ...
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The aim of this article is to study the firm-level pricing behavior based on the firm’s competitive strategy through the exchange rate pass-through. Using Iranian export price microdata, we provide new empirical evidence on how firm’s exchange rate pass-through depends on firm’s strategic decisions of competition. After classifying firms in two groups based on their competitive strategies, we show that firms involving in strategic complements pass more exchange rate movements to export prices than firms with strategic substitutions. Furthermore, firms in strategic substitutions tend to increase their export volume significantly more than the firms in strategic complements as a result of the depreciation of exchange rate.
Other
Saleh Sedighi Shiraz; Samad Aali; Rasoul Vazifeh; Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh
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Appropriate and rational evaluation is considered as a fundamental issue of today's organizations with multiple branches, especially about banks. In the meantime, utilizing a proper model of marketing performance evaluation at the bank’s branch level will bring consequences such as increasing the ...
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Appropriate and rational evaluation is considered as a fundamental issue of today's organizations with multiple branches, especially about banks. In the meantime, utilizing a proper model of marketing performance evaluation at the bank’s branch level will bring consequences such as increasing the accountability, services quality improvement, increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty, and finally, the bank profitability. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of designing and explaining a comprehensive model of marketing performance evaluation for the bank branches with the qualitative approach of the grounded theory. Considering the criterion of theoretical saturation, judgmental sampling was used to select 20 people who were interviewed. Based on the findings of the research, the provision of banking services at a certain level of quality by the bank's employees and management affects the marketing performance of the branch over time. Also, the findings showed that factors such as organizational culture, as well as local market conditions and macroeconomic factors, extra-branch rules and regulations, and the severe fluctuation of the local market, manifest themselves in customer relationship management, human capital management, and continuous improvement and finally, the consequence of such management is gaining customer loyalty, creating a successful brand and the bank profitability.
Monetary economics
Mohammad Feghhi Kashani; Majid Omidi
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This paper is an endeavor towards investigating the potential role of deposit market structure as a distinct channel for (monetary, fiscal, and regulatory) policy transmission mechanism. In doing so, we have developed the core idea in a rational expectation partial equilibrium setup incorporating the ...
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This paper is an endeavor towards investigating the potential role of deposit market structure as a distinct channel for (monetary, fiscal, and regulatory) policy transmission mechanism. In doing so, we have developed the core idea in a rational expectation partial equilibrium setup incorporating the possibility of contagion risk in the banking system. This has enabled us to build up more sensible analytical findings within a tractable structure which is capable of making diverse equilibria spotted in some empirical evidence. The setup/paper lays down conditions under which one could expect Nash equilibria involving, inter alia, “limited price war”, “deposit rates rat race”, “bank run”, and “systemic banking crisis” followed by incidents of “banking panic”. This multiplicity in equilibria is the result of interaction between the deposit market structural characteristics and policy commands due to externalities originating from strategic complementarity/substitution among the rivalry banks in the market. Further the paper explores the allocation and stabilization efficiency implications in terms of conceivable equilibria for deposit rates, deposit market share, expected net returns, expected markup, and the level of expected effort of banks operating in the banking system with an emphasis on the role of equity capital in between.
Econometrics
Alireza Kamalian; Seyed Komail Tayebi; Alimorad Sharifi; Hadi Amiri
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Propensity score matching is extensively utilized in estimating the effects of policy interventions and programs for data observations. This method compares two treatment and control groups to make statistical inferences about the significance of the effects of these policies on target variables. Therefore, ...
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Propensity score matching is extensively utilized in estimating the effects of policy interventions and programs for data observations. This method compares two treatment and control groups to make statistical inferences about the significance of the effects of these policies on target variables. Therefore, when using propensity score matching, it is significant to obtain the standard error to estimate the treatment effect. The precise estimations of variance and standard deviation facilitate more efficient statistical testing and more accurate confidence intervals. However, there is no agreement in the literature on the estimation method of standard error; some methods rely on resampling, while others do not. This study compares these methods using Monte Carlo simulation and calculating the Mean Squared Errors (MSE) of these estimators. Our results indicate that Jackknife and standard methods are superior to Abadie and Imbens (2006) bootstrap, and subsampling ones in terms of accuracy. Finally, reviewing Tayyebi et al. (2019) indicated that different methods of estimating variance in the matching estimator led to different statistical inferences in terms of statistical significance.
Seyyed Mohammad Ali Soozandehfar; Marzieh Souzandehfar
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This investigation is an endeavor to appraise the language of Resilient economy aiming at modeling it discursively for the first time in Iran. In this vein, postulating the thematic analysis proposed by Ary et al. (2010) as the analytical framework, this study integrated the concepts utilized in the ...
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This investigation is an endeavor to appraise the language of Resilient economy aiming at modeling it discursively for the first time in Iran. In this vein, postulating the thematic analysis proposed by Ary et al. (2010) as the analytical framework, this study integrated the concepts utilized in the discourse of Resilient economy extracted from various materials, articles, excerpts, interviews, and questionnaires through diverse qualitative techniques such as open, axial, and selective codifications. Moreover, to select a subset of common concepts and remove the redundant ones, factor analysis was applied as a quantitative technique. The findings elucidated two major theoretical views, i.e. macroscopic and microscopic. Macroscopic view accounts for the themes of history and philosophy behind Resilient economy, while microscopic view illuminates four themes of requirements, principles, objectives, and application procedures, which altogether comprised a model describing Resilient economy in the Iranian context. In the denouement, it was concluded that Resilient economy is the essence of Islamic and monotheistic economy where justice, fairness, democracy and knowledge shine as its premises, conducive to bolstering independence, flourish, innovation, entrepreneurship, and constant success and growth. Parenthetically, the study proposed some implications for economics teachers and discourse analysts at the end.
Macroeconomics
seyedrohollah Ahmadi Hajiabadi; Jabbar Ul-Haq; Hubert Visas
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The present paper aims to test the new structural economics hypothesis in regard to the effect of development strategy on economic growth in a country that has witnessed an eight-year war and has suffered severe sanctions i.e., Iran. According to the new structural economics, if a country adopts a comparative ...
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The present paper aims to test the new structural economics hypothesis in regard to the effect of development strategy on economic growth in a country that has witnessed an eight-year war and has suffered severe sanctions i.e., Iran. According to the new structural economics, if a country adopts a comparative advantage defying strategy, it will have poor growth performance. In contrast, to have a strong economic growth, it should employ a comparative advantage following strategy. the technology choice index (TCI) is utilized as a proxy of development strategy. Based on this indicator, increasing of TCI means that a country is conducting a comparative advantage defying strategy. The relationship is estimated by the ARDL bounds test approach. To run the model, the technology choice index (TCI), and a variety of control variables were included in the model. Hence, time-series data was collected from reliable databases for the period 1979-2018. The results in which their stability is checked, reveal a negative effect of adopting a comparative advantage defying strategy on economic growth, which supports Lin's hypothesis. In other words, it is shown that by increasing TCI, economic growth is declined significantly. So, to achieve economic growth, a kind of development strategy should be adopted that is based on pursuing comparative advantages.
Institutional Economics
Mohamad Mahdi Kamal; Hadi Amiri; Vahid Moghadam; Darrius Rahimi
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The Dictator Game can describe many environmental challenges. That is the conditions where exploiters have asymmetric power in exploitation. For solving such environmental problems, solutions have been proposed, several of which focus on exogenous factors and others on characteristics of users. In this ...
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The Dictator Game can describe many environmental challenges. That is the conditions where exploiters have asymmetric power in exploitation. For solving such environmental problems, solutions have been proposed, several of which focus on exogenous factors and others on characteristics of users. In this research, we are looking for a solution to one of these problems in the field of water for Iranian exploiters. To do this, we used experimental economics in the context of institutional analysis and development framework. The game was played in 19 groups of 5 participants with 1767 observations and then estimated using an econometrics model. This study showed that creating a club good downstream of the river and supporting local regulation (along with intra-system monitoring) can enable water distribution to occur more uniformly among users. Additionally, supporting local regulation has more substantial effects than the creation of club goods in water distribution. Furthermore, the data analysis obtained through the experiment and Ring Game shows that if the upstream exploiters have an other-regarding social value orientation, it produces positive effects on the exploit of other people so that the downstream exploiters also benefit from water. Thus, this research can have some implications for solving Iran's environmental problems similar to the dictator game.
Behnam Abdi; Seyyed Hamid Khodadad Hosseini
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An outstanding feature of the contemporary world is the rapid economic, technological, social, and political changes marked by a high level of uncertainty. For surviving in this complex and constantly changing economy, successful transition to a learning economy is a necessity for developing countries. ...
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An outstanding feature of the contemporary world is the rapid economic, technological, social, and political changes marked by a high level of uncertainty. For surviving in this complex and constantly changing economy, successful transition to a learning economy is a necessity for developing countries. This research was aimed to investigate the factors which played a role in the developing countries’ successful transition to a learning economy. Furthermore, according to evolutionary economics, countries are path-dependent, i.e. the differences in structures and institutions of an economy give each economic system its specific nature that is illustrated in the particular challenges each country face in its transformation to a learning economy. Hence, based on the pieces of evidence from Iran, this inductive, exploratory, and qualitative research, using a grounded theory approach and a follow-up quantitative analysis based on survey data, led to the development of a model that can be used to analyze the success factors which contribute to this transition. The findings showed that in terms of the ‘paradigm model’, transitional thinking as casual condition, ICT, social capital and macro-economic conditions as intervening conditions, policy institution as central category, government, university and industry interactions, learning firms, collaborative learning, improved research and education system, and regional development as strategies were factors that could lead to a learning economy.
Macroeconomics
Ali Akbar Jafarizadeh Malmiri; Gholmreza Askarzadeh; Hamid Khajeh Mahmoodabadi; Yahya Abtahi
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of ETF funds on Iran's stock market. The index investigated in this research is the degree of fragility of the stock market in Iran. For this purpose, a model has been used at first, which shows how much the entry of an ETF market fund can ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of ETF funds on Iran's stock market. The index investigated in this research is the degree of fragility of the stock market in Iran. For this purpose, a model has been used at first, which shows how much the entry of an ETF market fund can affect the stability and fragility of the stock market. Then, in order to analyze the issue, a series of ETF funds in Iran has been selected. We used price data of 21 different stocks included in ETF funds and the price of related ETF from 30-Jan 2022 till 28-Dec 2022. Using OLS regression analysis, the results and analysis give a pattern that with the entry of ETF funds, the nonsystematic value has increased values. Therefore, we conclude that the entry of ETF funds into the market increases the fragility in the Iranian stock market.
