unbalanced multilateralism should be considered as a part of the west world’s strategic policy to confine iran’s economic and international capabilities. indications of unbalanced multilateralism in iran’s economic sanction policymaking are focused on executive mechanisms and america and eu’s legislative bodies. although america and eu have relatively identical strategic objectives toward islam...

This study focuses on the distributive politics of presidential elections. Specifically, I research whether there is an economic advantage to being a swing state. Current literature on the subject supports the idea that money flows into swing states during presidential election years because of the Electoral College. My findings proved inconclusive; most likely because of limitations in the dat...

centralizing and using proper transportation facilities cut down costs and traffic. hub facilities concentrate on flows to cause economic advantage of scale and multimodal transportation helps use the advantage of another transporter. a distinctive feature of this paper is proposing a new mathematical formulation for a three-stage p-hub location routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and de...

rapid economic growth and competition ability are the most important themes of the fourth development plan, without promotion and development of human capital and increasing labor productivity is not achieved and in this regard, education an important role is playing. this paper investigated the value added comparative advantages state and private education in khorasan region (including three k...

This paper based on a sample of 940 Spanish exporting enterprises, of which 188 were multinationals, confirmed that foreign direct investment decisions are conditioned by the nature of the firms economic capital that constitute its competitive advantage. At the same time we found that international experience not only increases the likelihood of investing abroad but also facilitates geographic ...

This paper tries to test the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Former Soviet Union countries after their independence in 1991. It has become an article of faith in most economic and political circles that opening up the economy to international trade will produce substantial benefits in terms of greater consumer choice and higher living standards. Higher productivity is...

â â â  â  â  abstract â  this paper aims to identify key challenges facing iran and south korea in their bilateral trade and investment relations. in particular, it is concerned with the policy implications which can be useful for policy makers and business people of both countries. for this purpose, we review and analyze the recent developments of the iranian economy and bilateral trade and in...

The paper studies a sample of natives and 18 immigrant nationalities in the Swedish labor market between 1970 and 1990. The purpose is examining the existence of an immigrant specific glass ceiling. Results suggest a considerable overall advantage in terms of the probability of experiencing upward occupational mobility for native Swedish males. Despite this, the pattern does not correspond to t...