Public Economics
Fatemeh Etemedmoghaddam; Majid Sameti; Sara Ghobadi; Mansour Mahinizadeh
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In an effort to achieve economic growth and development, to eliminate or minimize the traditional barriers of trade, trade facilitation (TF), and increase international trade, free trade zones in Iran were founded. In this regard, part of the solution to increasing countries' international trade is provided ...
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In an effort to achieve economic growth and development, to eliminate or minimize the traditional barriers of trade, trade facilitation (TF), and increase international trade, free trade zones in Iran were founded. In this regard, part of the solution to increasing countries' international trade is provided by Public- Private Partnerships. Since trade facilitation includes a relationship between the Public and Private sectors, this type of partnership is especially important in trade facilitation. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the relationship of the factors that have the greatest impact on TF-oriented PPPs in the free zones and these factors derive from the theory of PPPs. Qualitative data was collected focusing on private, public, and academic sector professionals involved in free zones and trade by a researcher-made questionnaire. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) strategy was utilized to look at the model and test the research hypotheses. Of the 5-hypothesis proposed by this study, four hypotheses were confirmed and one was rejected. The results have shown that the variables of private sector abilities, the micro-environment factors, and the macro-environment factors, in that arrange, have the foremost impact on TF-oriented PPPs and TF-oriented PPPs have a strong relationship to trade facilitation. Therefore, the use of TF-oriented PPPs in free zones can have a positive effect on trade facilitation, and the development of TF dimensions will also lead to trade facilitation in Iran's free zones.
Mansour Mahinizadeh; Kazem Yavari; Hassan Valibeigi; Ali Shafiei
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Nowadays, banks are considered as one of the major components of the financial system of a country and any deficits and malfunction in the banking system will negatively affect the performance of the real sector. Therefore, there is a need for more investigation on the behavior of banks and factors affecting ...
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Nowadays, banks are considered as one of the major components of the financial system of a country and any deficits and malfunction in the banking system will negatively affect the performance of the real sector. Therefore, there is a need for more investigation on the behavior of banks and factors affecting those behaviors in a country. One of the issues that affect the behavior of banks is symmetric information. Thus, the main aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of asymmetric information in the money markets on investment, production, and employment. Hence, based on the New-Keynesian framework, a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model was adopted in accordance with the structure of the economy of Iran. The designed model entailed nine sectors including households, firms, banks, the Central Bank, oil, the government, exports, imports, and other countries of the world. Moreover, the rigidities of the prices and wages, and the rigidities of the imported and exported goods were taken into account in the model. By using the Bayesian method and data gathered from Iran during 1974-2017, the parameters of equations were estimated and the impact of symmetric information was investigated. The results indicated that increasing the asymmetric information and reducing the honesty in the society through decreasing the resources available to the banks and increasing the cost of banks will lead to an increase in the profit of the facilities. Also, increasing the profit of banks concessional loans decreases investment, production, and employment.
Mohammad Ali Feizpour; Mansoor Mahinizadeh; Kazem Yavari; Iman Shaker Ardakany
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Industrial subsidy is one of the important tools in support of the national production that plays a crucial role in the realization of a resilient economy. Regarding limited financial resources, it is important to determine how these subsidies can be distributed efficiently. Accordingly, the purpose ...
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Industrial subsidy is one of the important tools in support of the national production that plays a crucial role in the realization of a resilient economy. Regarding limited financial resources, it is important to determine how these subsidies can be distributed efficiently. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to provide a model for allocating industrial subsidy among 22 manufacturing industries at the level of 2-digit ISIC codes using the ZSG-DEA model based on the merging of the concepts of game theory with the DEA, and also four effective criteria in allocating public resources namely, industrial added value, the number of industrial employees, the amount of direct export and the amount of industrial taxes and duties. The results of the study show that the food and beverage industry should receive the highest proportion of the optimum subsidy, whereas industries related to manufacturing office machines, accounting and computing machinery, radio, television, communication devices, wearing apparel, tanning and polishing leather and leather goods, fur, and manufacturing tobacco products should receive the lowest proportion of industrial subsidies.
