zahra najafi; Majid Sameti; Karim Azarbayjani
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Over the past few decades, intra-industry trade has become one of the most important issues of international concern. Iran needs a model to further its economic goals and improve its business relations with its major trading partners in non-oil industries. Therefore, in this study, with a particular ...
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Over the past few decades, intra-industry trade has become one of the most important issues of international concern. Iran needs a model to further its economic goals and improve its business relations with its major trading partners in non-oil industries. Therefore, in this study, with a particular attention to the industry of riding cars and the role of the key components of innovation and the size of the government at the macro and economic level, the linear and nonlinear relationship between these variables is examined. According to the results, nonlinear relationship (inverse-U) between the innovation variable and commercial vehicle trade has been confirmed. Also, government size has had a positive and significant impact on the trade of this industry. Linder markers and geographical distances as control variables have not had a significant effect on the level of business of riding cars, and membership variables in the WTO and ECO have contributed to the expansion of trade in this industry.
Hassan Heidari; Arash Refah-Kahriz
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Attitude towards the role of government and reasons for the existence of government have experienced several changes and revisions during the last century. Attitude changes alter the duties and responsibilities assigned to the government and thus change the size and composition of public expenditure. ...
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Attitude towards the role of government and reasons for the existence of government have experienced several changes and revisions during the last century. Attitude changes alter the duties and responsibilities assigned to the government and thus change the size and composition of public expenditure. In the context of these attitudes, there are factors that could explain the changes in the size and the growth of government and consequently the government intervention in the economy over time and among different countries. This study investigates the relationship between government size and macroeconomic variables including economic growth, growth of oil revenues, growth of tax revenues, inflation in Iran using seasonal data during the period of 1990:1 – 2014:4 by applying Markov Regime Switching model. The results show that in the selected model consisting of two regimes with different government sizes, economic growth has a significant negative impact on government size in both regimes of zero and one. But inflation has different effects on government size: it has a negative effect in the regime zero (smaller government) and a positive effect in the regime one (bigger government). Moreover, the growth of oil revenues has a positive effect in both regimes, but the growth of tax revenues has a positive effect only in the regime one. Also, the results indicate that the government size in Iran has often been in the regime one with bigger government size and it is predicted that bigger government will be more sustainable than smaller government.
Hadi Rafiee Darani; Naser Shahnooshi
Volume 19, Issue 58 , April 2014, , Pages 153-181
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The main objective of this paper is to study the effect of government size and good governance on human development in different countries in 2000, 2005 and 2010. For this purpose, geographical weighted regression (adaptive spatial kernels) was used for data analysis considering significance of Moran ...
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The main objective of this paper is to study the effect of government size and good governance on human development in different countries in 2000, 2005 and 2010. For this purpose, geographical weighted regression (adaptive spatial kernels) was used for data analysis considering significance of Moran statistic and spatial correlation of Human Development Index. Results (obtained utilizing ArcGis 9.3 software) indicate that on average, government size and good governance have an overall positive impact on human development index. Specifically, the effect of government size shows a decline between 2000, 2005 and 2010, whereas, the effect of good governance shows an increase from 2000 to 2005 and a decline from 2005 to 2010 respectively. In the case of Iran, findings indicate that regional impact coefficient of government size is positive in 2000 and 2005, while it is negative in 2010. The effect of good governance in Iran is positive with an increase in effect intensity. We also analyzed the effects of government size and good governance specifically on four groups of countries in terms of the level of development.
Behzad Alipour; Mehdi Pedram; Iman Charghanian
Volume 18, Issue 54 , April 2013, , Pages 27-53
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We analyse short-run and long-run effects of government size on the economic growth of Iran ,using 1353-90 time series .the results of estimation , by using of ARDL and boundaries testing approach, indicate convergence of the dynamic model to the long-run trend. The error correction model also ...
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We analyse short-run and long-run effects of government size on the economic growth of Iran ,using 1353-90 time series .the results of estimation , by using of ARDL and boundaries testing approach, indicate convergence of the dynamic model to the long-run trend. The error correction model also show that 59 present of departure from the long-run trend will be corrected in every period. The long-run estimation shows a positive relation between oil price, oil revenues and ratio of investment to the real GDP as independent variables and economic growth as dependent variable, and a negative relation between government size and a dummy variable for war and revolution as independent variables and economic growth.
Farhad Dejpasand; Hosein Goudarzi
Volume 14, Issue 42 , April 2010, , Pages 189-207
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A great deal of literature has examined the relationship between government size and economic growth. To investigate this relationship, this study applies a threshold regression model to test whether the Army curve exists in Iran as an oil exporting country. Five classification of government size include ...
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A great deal of literature has examined the relationship between government size and economic growth. To investigate this relationship, this study applies a threshold regression model to test whether the Army curve exists in Iran as an oil exporting country. Five classification of government size include total government expenditure/GDP, government investment expenditure/GDP and government consumption expenditure/GDP, government expenditure financed by oil /GDP and government expenditure financed by tax/GDP. The result reveal that all classification except government expenditure finance by tax have a threshold effect and economic growth is maximum when government expenditure is between 23 to 30 percent of GDP.
