Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

We propose a simple summary statistic for a nation’s flow of welfare, measured as a consumption equivalent, and compute its level and growth rate for a broad set of countries. This welfare index combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. Although the index is highly correlated with per capita GDP, deviations are often economically significant: Western Europe looks conside...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

The Welfare Cost inflation in Iran

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the welfare cost of inflation in Iran. We first use the long-horizon regression approach developed by Fisher and Seater (1993) to obtain an estimate of the inflation rate elasticity of money demand and then the Baily’s consumer surplus approach to calculate the welfare cost function. The results show that reducing inflation rate from 40% to 0% increases ...

Variety Growth and World Welfare