IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS
Year:2012 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:6

Foreign direct investment entering the country in addition to financing investment projects, Accelerate the process of technology development, education, human capital increase productivity, improve quality and standards of the domestic goods, Expand trade with other countries, reducing the unemployment and increase production in the host country.Given the importance of attracting this type of investment, in this study, the analysis of FDI and Algebraic and graphing and macro-economic indicators affected by it, Paid to economic factors affecting foreign direct investment in the oil producer middle eastern countries during the period (2010-1995) in the panel data econometric methods. The study shows that the results estimate the degree of economic openness, economic Security, has a significant positive effect on attracting foreign direct investment in the countries studied but market size and labor force alone, no significant effect on attracting foreign direct investment.

In this study, due to the necessity of targeted subsidies to the need for supportive policies on food security of vulnerable and detailed cost data - household income in 1388 and mathematical programming techniques (MGA), the demand system is almost ideal (AIDS) and compensating variation (CV) was used. In this study, basket of food has been so favorable that, while fine for standard amounts of nutrients, the budget confirmed a household medicine community as well as it has been applied. In the next step the main group of edible materials which had highest share in household costs have been introduced oral material and after estimating these groups demand functions by approximated almost Ideal demand system and method of regression separate appearance patterns (SUR) demand functions coefficients were obtained. Then using the same elasticity values of the demand analysis, spontaneous, and introduces the crossover has been calculated and the results are used to estimate the effects on welfare. It is notable that goal of this study was to focus on the provision of food security is vulnerable strata, using economic estimates of damage to households that have been introduced in this regard and comparison of effects of welfare changes in some price of major household goods, edible basket, vulnerable households as community has been defining the target and finally, with the emphasis on the necessity of identification of that society, necessary credits to support of optimal shopping free get into account premises Of different goods have been introduced in scenarios price is achieved.

In the new literature, Research and Development (R&D) has an important role in economic growth. Specifically, R&D expenditures improve economic growth and fill the gap between growth of production and its factors by decreasing cost and enhancing productivity. R&D funded by different sectors and insufficient investment in one of them can be a factor for weaker economic growth in developed and developing countries In this paper, we have analyzed the effect of R&D expenditures on economic growth of OIC countries. For this, we have separated investment sectors according to endogenous growth model and then employed panel data method during time period 1998-2009. Based on obtained results, R&D expenditures by government, higher education, non-profit organizations, and business enterprise have positive and significant effect on economic growth.

Due to an abundance of energy and human resources, Iran has enjoyed an expansion of its industrial sector. Low energy prices, however has increased the dependency of these industries on cheap energy and increased the production of energy inefficient consumer goods. In this article we examine the relationship between energy prices and industrial employment according to Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Method (ARDL) and Vector Auto Regressive model (VAR). We conclude that there is a meaningful relationship between employment and the overall price of energy, prices of oil products, electricity and natural gas. The results of Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) also confirm the hypothesis that energy price shocks have an impact on the level of industrial employment.

Elgoli park which is located in East Azerbaijan province named as one of the important tourism and promenade zone of Iran due to its numerous natural places. Studying Tourism value of this place could be useful in predicting needs, remove scarcities and development of tourism. The aim of this research is estimating the Tourism value of Elgoli park with the use of contingent valuation method. For investigating effective variables on willingness to pay of individuals, Logit model estimated with the use of maximum likelihood approach. Requested data set were obtained by completing questionnaires and interviewing with 322 individuals who visit mentioned place. Results revealed that 93 percent of individuals were ready for paying as a use of the mentioned place. Also, results showed that variables include Income, Education, gender, family size, visit number, age and bid had a significant effect on probability of willingness to pay of individuals. Annual Mean Willingness to pay each family and Tourism value of Elgoli park was 54000 RLs and 20 billion RLs respectively.

During the last two decades, the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in increasing countries the economic growth and productivity in different countries form of inter-country data has been more considered. Most of these studies have considered the positive impact of ICT on economic growth and productivity. Hence, regarding the multiple economic functions of ICT, the goal of this paper is to study ( the Uhansson-Usilius convergence growth test), using Panal Data method while illustrating in the long-run production in Mena's Countries during 2000-2009 concerning the role of ICT, and also the long term relation between production and communication in Iran using data gathered during 1347-1386. Moreover, through Granger causality test, the existence of causality between ICT and production in mentioned countries and also Iran have been investigated.The results of estimated model in Mena's countries show that all estimated coefficients have the considered signs and are statistically significant. In sample Mena's countries, the production elasticity of ICT, capital, labor and human capital have been respectively estimated approximately 0.0559, 0.2747, 0.467, 0.153. Also, in (R2) there is a one way causality from ICT to production at the significant level of s per cent. The results of estimated model of Iran also show that the related coefficients related to the expendituers of ICT capacity, capital, labor and human capital in long term are respectively 0.07689, 0.4045, 0.1646, 0.14288 and similar to Mena's countries there is a one way causality from ICT to production.