Journal Of Development Economics and Planning
Year:2012 | Volume:1 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:8

The happiness economic subject, like human capital and environmental economics, is very important from micro and macroeconomic perspectives, and effective on economic growth and productivity. The goals of this research are the study of labor happiness economics and factors affecting happiness economic index.Here the happiness is divided into the goods and intellectual happiness. The goods happiness was studied using literature, economic, and system dynamic model approaches whereas, intellectual happiness was analyzed using data collected by questionnaires. The effect of happiness on economic growth was analyzed, as well.In the system dynamic approach, such variables as pollution and household expenditure were used an different general equilibrium scenarios were considered. The results showed that increase in the happiness caused increase in productivity of labor. Health, job satisfaction and feelings of job security caused positive impact on happiness feeling.

This article tried to estimate the foreign exchange need for import in the fourth development plan using an up to date input-output table, and compare the results with the actual values of the plan performance. The up to date tables were prepared in two stages, adjusting prices and the quantities. Results showed that because of unexpected of foreign exchange in the early years of the plan, at the time of preparing plan the allocated foreign exchange for imports was more than sufficient. This shows that in the time of preparing plan the decision makers have been worried about the delayed debts and paid attention to bring about a positive trade balance.

The purpose of this research was to analyze the effect of monetary policy on gross domestic product and inflation via house price index as a proxy for other assets in Iran in 1989-2008. For the analysis time series data and vector error correlation method were used. The results showed that in the pattern 1 the positive monetary shocks in the short run increased the product and decreased the prices but, in the long run it decreased the product and increased the prices. The debt shocks of the banks to the central bank in the short run had little effect on the product and the prices. In the intermediate run these shocks had decreased the product and increased the prices. And in the long run it increased the product and decreased the prices. In pattern 2 positive shock of the legal deposits ratio leads to decrease in the production and increase in the inflation in the short, intermediate and the long run, through the banking lending. Results shoed also that money policy instruments (banks loan to the central bank and the rate of legal deposits) had a little effect on the granted facilities of the banks.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can increase the capacity for producing export goods. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of FDI to industrial trade flows (ITF) in the OECD countries by using gravity model and pooled data for the years of 2000 to 2007. The results showed that there was a positive and statistically significant relationship of FDI to ITFin the countries under study. Also, such other factors as national income and size of population had positive and statistically significant effects on ITF. Geographical distances had negative effects, however.

In this study the effects of human capital on economic growth in the short run and the long run by using Auto-regressive Distributed Lag Model were analyzed. The results showed that human capital had more effect on economic growth in the long run than in the short run. This shows that the policy makers should pay more attention to expansion of human capital.

In this paper the interaction effects of income integration and the trade flow expansion in Iran and her partners including OECD countries in the period of 1996 to 2006 was analyzed. The purpose of this research was analyze the interaction effects of income integration and trade flow and the factors affecting it. The analytical model was developed on the basis of the regression model was used by Soderbon and teal. The employed data was of a panel type. The results showed that income integration and trade flows had reversal positive and statistically effect on each other. Therefore a complementary relationship revealed between income integration and trade flows.Also, trade flows, labor resource and physical capital had positive effects on economic growth whereas, income integration did not.

In this paper to evaluate the comparative advantage of ISLC two digit code manufactured commodities in Iran, two indexes of comparative shift analysis and symmetric revealed comparative advantage in 2002 to 2006 were used. Then, using taxonomy analysis method the two indexes were combined and the manufactured goods with comparative advantage were specified. The results showed that in turncoke producing industries-oil refinery (23), chemical materials and products (24), and mine and non-metal products (26) had the highest advantage and administrative machinery products (30) and medical and opticalequipments (33) had the lowest.

On the basis of macroeconomic consumption theories, consumption behavior as compared to income is more stable. Overtime income inequality that is, appeared as fluctuation and dispersion in income, would affect consumption expenditure. In this paper the extent of consumption expenditure inequality that are caused by income fluctuation and dispersion was analyzed. The inequalities of household consumption expenditure were analyzed for eight goods and services categories. Urban household budget panel data for the years of 1982 to 2007 were used and causal relationship between the variables analyzed. The results showed that not all of the fluctuation and dispersion in income were transferred to consumption expenditure. Therefore, consumption expenditure was less dispersed than income.