JOURAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:1|Papers Count:7

It is evident that food taxes and subsidies through changing the prices affect the consumers’ purchasing power and welfare. Therefore, with respect to the "economic change scheme" one main point of which is to target the subsidies, it is necessary to study the effects of all kinds of taxes and subsidies on poverty with respect to the different theoretical foundations and models.The aim of this paper is, based on Son-Kakwani model, to compute the price elasticity of poverty for taxed and subsidized food commodity groups in the years 1379-1383 and, useng these elasticities, to determine whether these taxes and subsidies are pro-poor. By the way, in the methodology section, it will be shown that the price elasticity of poverty can be computed without having to estimate a poverty function.

This paper was done to find optimal size of income inequality that ensures economic growth for Iran's economy is desirable. This size was called the threshold level, i.e. the size of income inequality over the limit, has negative effects on economic growth. For this respect, using Hansen two-regime threshold regression model, a relationship was obtained between the effects of income inequality threshold level economic growth. The research results show that income inequality in Iran follow up from threshold two regime methods, that was 0.441. Also, nonlinear estimation results show that there is nonlinear relationship between inequality and economic growth.

In this world full of potential risks, farmers face diffiwlties concerning providing optimum agricultural pattrrns while taking risks inti consideration.In this study, modeling method, item making, MEG MOTAD models and taryet MOTAD models have been emplayed to provide agriwltural sub-optimum patterns and prioritize them based on potential rishs.The data for this study were gathered Forom agricultural districts of Shiraz for six years (1387-1383). The results that with 10 perent reduction of optimum level different agricultural designs on the basis of risks can creataed. Moreover, target-MOTAD model relatively provides better agricultural designs with lower risks.

The privatization policy in Iran flourished after the announcement of overall policies of the article 44 of the constitution. Based on enacted laws, it is determined that all public banks have to be confered to private sector excluding Melli and Sepah ones. The Mellat bank was the first one entering Tehran stock market after passing the legal process. This research aims to investigate the effects of this share offering on daily returns of private banks stocks existing in Tehran stock market. So, it is possible to measure the investor’s attitude towards this policy and its application. The statistical population of this study consists of seven private banks in Tehran stock market for which their daily returns are analyzed during a period of 738 days since 27th of Farvardin 1386 to 12th of Ordibehesht 1389. A panel data is used to study all these seven banks during the above-mentioned period. In order to evaluate this panel, including seven cross-sections over 738 days, seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) method is employed regarding the events nature and violation of independent distribution of residuals.The results show that among nine events relating to Mellat bank share offering through the Tehran stock market, there is no significant reaction from investors in eight of them. Only, in the seventh event, relating to the four percent offering of this bank’ block, we observed a significant reduction in daily returns of private banks stocks in the Tehran stock market.

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between labor productivity and natural unemployment in Iran’s economy. Because of the ability of Kalman’s filter to maintain the structure of information of time series as well as possibility of forecasting time series in long term, this filter was used in this study. Natural unemployment rate and the growth rate of labor productivity in Iran were calculated using the filter and the relationship between them was investigated. The results indicate that the rate of natural unemployment is high and rate of lobar productivity is very low in Iran's economy. Results also show there is a negative relationship between the two variables. In other words, to decrease the unemployment rate in Iran, the roductivity improvement should be taken into consideration as the main economic policy. To calculate the Philips curve's coefficients and natural unemployment as a non-observable variable together, the study proposed a new structure by combining Kalman filter and genetic lgorithm.

The purpose of this article is a ranking analysis of industries investment of Hormozgan Province in 1379 and 1383. In to do so, a combination of analysis and numerical taxonomy and introducing indexes such as firm indexes, raw material and function of export index, activities have been clasified on international standard industrial classification of all economic activities (ISIC). The results show that some of Hormozgan industries in this period of time have secured the their position, in other words the combination of the industial acctivities in the first priority during in this period of time studied is not constantly dixed set and tend stowards electrical and chemical industries.

This paper analyses the effect of GDP, inflation, exchange rate, and foreign direct investment on exports of three important members of Eco (Iran, Turkey Pakistan) during the period of 1973-2003.The panel, and augmented ols techniques are used. The results reveal that except inflation, the other variables have positive effects on exports.