mohammad alizadeh; Seyed Ehsan Hosseinidoust; Abolghasem Golkhandan
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From a financial perspective, decentralization is a transfer of resources from the central government to local governments. Fiscal decentralization policies can lead to more FDI attraction by increasing the share of provincial government funding to local infrastructure.Accordingly, the major purpose ...
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From a financial perspective, decentralization is a transfer of resources from the central government to local governments. Fiscal decentralization policies can lead to more FDI attraction by increasing the share of provincial government funding to local infrastructure.Accordingly, the major purpose of this study is to evaluate the long run and short run impact of fiscal decentralization on FDI in Iran during the period 1992-2014. For this purpose the three indicators of fiscal decentralization of revenue, fiscal decentralization of expenditures, fiscal decentralization of autonomy power and also some control variables including inflation, exchange rate fluctuations, and degree of trade openness have been used.In order to estimate the model, the Johansen-Juselius method and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) have been applied. Based on the results of the model, all three fiscal decentralization indicators increase FDI in the long run and in the short run. Therefore, providing the necessary conditions for the expansion of fiscal decentralization can help to promote the FDI level in Iran.Also, both in the long run and the short run, inflation and exchange rate fluctuations have a negative effect, and the degree of trade openness has a positive effect on FDI.
ZahraZahra Dehghan Shabani; Saeedeh Afarineshfar
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One of the factors affecting foreign direct investment is the ease of doing business. The world bank’s doing business report provides the indices of the ease of doing business. These indices measure the difficulty, costs and time it would take a standardized mid-sized company to start the business, ...
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One of the factors affecting foreign direct investment is the ease of doing business. The world bank’s doing business report provides the indices of the ease of doing business. These indices measure the difficulty, costs and time it would take a standardized mid-sized company to start the business, deal with construction permits, register property, get credit, pay taxes, import and export goods, enforce contracts and complete the bankruptcy process. It also measures the level of protection for investors. Inappropriate doing business decrease inflows of FDI because it increases production cost, increases risk of starting a new business, inappropriate size of the company, reduces the interactions between companies and reduces the financial participations. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze the effects of doing business on foreign direct investment by using Dynamic Panel Data model for 29 countries over the period 2003-2012. The results show that improved political stability, control of corruption, economic globalization, starting a business, protecting minority investors, enforcing contracts, closing a business, paying taxes and gross domestic product increase foreign direct investment flows.
Hosein Mohammadi; Mahboubeh Narouei
Volume 19, Issue 61 , February 2015, , Pages 149-171
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Many economists insist that the financial market is a key factor in economic growth due to the role of financial markets in financing and capital formation in different countries. With the development of endogenous growth models in recent decades, researchers pay more attention to the relation between ...
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Many economists insist that the financial market is a key factor in economic growth due to the role of financial markets in financing and capital formation in different countries. With the development of endogenous growth models in recent decades, researchers pay more attention to the relation between financial markets and economic growth. In this study, the empirical relationship between Foreign Direct Investment in dealing with financial development on economic growth investigated in 25 Islamic countries over the period 1990 to 2012 using Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The results show that the interaction between foreign direct investment and market-based indicators of financial development causes economic growth.
Seyyed Jalal Dehghani Firoozabadi; Mokhtar Salehi
Volume 17, Issue 52 , October 2012, , Pages 73-114
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This paper intends to study the role and significance economic diplomacy in the era of globalization. It then examines the performance of Iranian foreign policy and its interaction with global economy. The main challenges are reviewed, and major areas of activities evaluated. Five basic indices of globalization ...
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This paper intends to study the role and significance economic diplomacy in the era of globalization. It then examines the performance of Iranian foreign policy and its interaction with global economy. The main challenges are reviewed, and major areas of activities evaluated. Five basic indices of globalization were taken to be applied to the case of Iran evaluation of its performance in the course of globalization. Subsequently, the nature of relationship between Iranian economic diplomacy and indices of globalization in the areas of economic globalization, privatization, competition, foreign investment and development of ICT was analyzed and demonstrated.
Reza Aghababaee; Mahmoud Motevasseli; Seyed Morteza Hoseininejad
Volume 15, Issue 44 , October 2010, , Pages 1-33
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It is argued that foreign banks entry can improve the process of development by technology transfer and access to new international funds. This paper investigates factors affecting foreign banks entry. The theoretical model is based on Markowitz portfolio model, in which a bank decides to invest ...
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It is argued that foreign banks entry can improve the process of development by technology transfer and access to new international funds. This paper investigates factors affecting foreign banks entry. The theoretical model is based on Markowitz portfolio model, in which a bank decides to invest on “portfolio of countries” according to their potential country risk and return. To test various hypotheses, we construct a panel data model for 10 year across 30 countries. The results confirm the “follow up” theory: banks follow their clients to meet their needs in another country. The policy implication for authorities is that in order to attract foreign banks, they may consider participation of foreign companies in other industries. Banks are expected to automatically follow their clients and open up new branches at that country.
Alireza Amini; Hasty Rismanchy; Alireza Farhadi Kia
Volume 14, Issue 43 , July 2010, , Pages 55-80
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In this study, the factors affecting total factor productivity (TFP) are estimated with an emphasis on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Iran and 23 selected countries using the data over the period 1996-2006. TFP is computed using the Divisia index technique. The findings of this study show that the ...
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In this study, the factors affecting total factor productivity (TFP) are estimated with an emphasis on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Iran and 23 selected countries using the data over the period 1996-2006. TFP is computed using the Divisia index technique. The findings of this study show that the main determinants of TFP comprise FDI capital stock, R&D capital stock, university enrolment gross rate (as a proxy for human capital), the degree of openness (as the main sources of technological progress) and the ratio of actual output to potential output (as a measure of capacity utilization rate).. However, the magnitudes of the estimated parameters confirm that capacity utilization rate has the highest effect while FDI capital stock has the lowest effect on TFP.
Reza Najarzadeh; Mehran Maleki
Volume 7, Issue 23 , July 2005, , Pages 147-163
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Capital is considered to be the engine of economic growth and development. Developing countries, however, are short of this pivotal factor of economic well beings. Until not too long ago these countries used to resort to borrowings from abroad to furnish this shortage. But in recent years, ...
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Capital is considered to be the engine of economic growth and development. Developing countries, however, are short of this pivotal factor of economic well beings. Until not too long ago these countries used to resort to borrowings from abroad to furnish this shortage. But in recent years, the developing countries have faced mounting foreign debts on one hand, and their inability to payoff these debts on the other hand. They are gradually being attracted to foreign investments. In this article, the impact of FDI on economic growth has been studied. The results indicate that FDI has a positive impact on the economic growth of the five countries under study (Indonesia, Malaysia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran). Moreover, the degree of this impact is influenced by the quality of the human capital of each country. This fact holds not only for FDI but also for domestic investments as well.
Parviz Davoodi; Akbar Shahmoradi
Volume 6, Issue 20 , October 2004, , Pages 81-113
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the FDI using a panel data consisting of 46 developed and developing countries, including Iran. The period of study is 1990-2002. The estimated reduced form model is derived from a simultaneous macroeconomic model. The Housman test statistic carried out to ...
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the FDI using a panel data consisting of 46 developed and developing countries, including Iran. The period of study is 1990-2002. The estimated reduced form model is derived from a simultaneous macroeconomic model. The Housman test statistic carried out to verify using fixed effect rather than random. Also, the tests of Hadri (2000) for the null of stationarity against the alternative of unit root in panel data are carried out to show the reliability of the results, among other factors. The results imply that focusing on the necessary laws and regulations, motivating local private investment, increasing R&D, enhancing infrastructure investment’s efficiency and productivity, more skilled and productive labor force, and finally increasing the political stability of the country could be most important factors to attract FDI.
