JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH)
Year:2004 | Volume:4 | Issue:11-12|Papers Count:9

In recent decades globalization has had an important role in trade and development. In this paper effects of globalization on import demand pattern of Iran have been reviewed. For this purpose, two hypothesis have been tested: 1- Traditional models of endogenous relative price pattern is not a suitable model for estimation of import demand because of its import constrains. 2- Globalization has positive affects on import demand of Iran. Using the econometric techniques, the hypotheses have been tested. Results show that relative price variable coefficient in the import demand pattern is not linearly confident and it seems that globalization phenomenon would cause cause an increase in imports of Iran.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relation between the rates of inflation and stock returns in Tehran Stock Exchange. There are different views on this relation.in economic literature. There is no agreement among economists on the Issue,one way or another. Some believe that there exists negative relation between these two variables, on the other hand, some economists are on the belief that there is no meaningful relation between them. In this paper we review some of the empirical literature about the relation between these two variables are reviewed and then the relation between the rates of inflation and returns on stocks in Tehran Stock Exchange in the period 1377-1382 have been stamated estimated and the results will be compared with the result of other research. In doing this VAR and Granger Causality Test have been useds. The results indicate that there is no meaningful relation between the rates of inflation & stock returns in Tehran Stock Exchange.

The present study aims at investigating into the Devisia Decomposition Methods as applied to the three energy carriers including electricity; natural gas; oil derivatives and total energy consumption in major Iranian industries in general. It also seeks to analyze the production and structural factors and pure intensity factor in the changes in the ultimate energy consumption from 1979 to 2001. The findings of the study show that production effect in explaining the changes of electricity consumption, pure intensity effect in explaining changes in natural gas consumption as well as production effect and pure intensity in explaining the changes in the consumption of energy carriers of oil and the whole energy use played the dominant role respectively both before and after 1989. Structural effects were shown, in all the four cases mentioned above, to have a share, though a slight one, in explaining the energy consumption behavior. Moreover, as to the consumption of the carriers and that of the whole of energy in Iranian major industries, the findings indicate that structural changes have led to the reduction,however small of the consumption of energy.

The present study aims at investigating into the Devisia Decomposition Methods as applied to the three energy carriers including electricity; natural gas; oil derivatives and total energy consumption in major Iranian industries in general. It also seeks to analyze the production and structural factors and pure intensity factor in the changes in the ultimate energy consumption from 1979 to 2001. The findings of the study show that production effect in explaining the changes of electricity consumption, pure intensity effect in explaining changes in natural gas consumption as well as production effect and pure intensity in explaining the changes in the consumption of energy carriers of oil and the whole energy use played the dominant role respectively both before and after 1989. Structural effects were shown, in all the four cases mentioned above, to have a share, though a slight one, in explaining the energy consumption behavior. Moreover, as to the consumption of the carriers and that of the whole of energy in Iranian major industries, the findings indicate that structural changes have led to the reduction,however small of the consumption of energy.

For proper identification factors affecting household settlements in Mashhad, we have utilized hedonic price method in this title. Four groups of factors consisting of structural, environmental, accessibility and spatial characteristics are introduced. The variable related to spatial character restricts price function of the location by spatial econometric method. Spatial econometric method can well help us in determination of factors affecting hedonic price but also leads us to an inquiry of distribution of characteristics with spatial dependence phenomena. This technique is composed of geography concepts and regional economics. It enables researchers to study economic variables with regional approach and utilize results in terms of neighborhood characters. As a result housing price are not only affected by its location and structural character but also by conditions of neighbors housing. Finally existence or nonexistence of spatial dependence in hedonic model depends on the type of housing and submarkets extent. It has also found that spatial econometric model has better identification capability compared with OLS. For villa units, Most coefficients of hedonic function are related to the following variables land area, location security condition, existence of backyard and number of rooms in the house. In apartment units majority of coefficients hedonic model are related to the land price (as square meter), building area, age of building and expectation of increase in relative price of land.

In this paper, using Leontief (demand - side) input - output technique, we analyzed the effects of tourism expenditures and also the omission of final and total demand in tourism sector on employment in Fars province has beeb analysed. Total expenditures in tourist sector has been disintegrated by continent into American, Asian and European tourists to investigate the contribution of various foreign tourists on the employment. The results show that: 1)Omission of final demand for tourist will reduce total employment by 29 percent. 2)Omission of both final and intermediate demands would reduces total employment by 39 percent. 3)Also, the corresponding employment multiplier for American, Asian and European tourists are 93,91 and 92 person, respectively.

In this paper a solution is sought for credits distribution subject to article 38 of urban development chapter through a regional policymaking including decentralization. These credits have not been distributed in centralized form every year and have not followed any particular pattern. This article aims to reduce the proyincial differences with approaches like, helping newly-established cities, empowerment of small-sized cities, protection of medium-sized cities, and protection of some important and urgent projects in big cities that have economic, political, social and security importance. So, the main solution is distribution of credits among cities in a province by a provincial institution and central control of distribution and usage methods of them through unique codes in the country. The provincial shares of credits are given regarding the indicators of cities situation and urban development ranks of different provinces. Therefore, It is recommended that desired zoning be based on urban needs of each province.

Since 1381, the financing method of budget in Iran has been introduced using financial statistics by means of current operation balance, asset transfer balance and financial asset balance. In this paper, the effect of government financing size on growth is estimated with seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) method in two current and capital sizes to provide the effective procedures for structural reforms in Iran. The results show that decreased dependency of current operation to asset transfer balance reforms the size of government puts Iranian economy in a growth path. So, Iranian government needs to determine a base year to reach optimal size of reforms; and reform the additional current size based on structural adjustment policy pre-base year and structural stabilization policy post-base year.