The purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the effects of government intervention on the Iranian economy over the last few decades. It is shown that public expenditures affect the value added of each economic sector not only simultaneously, but lagged over several periods. Regression results show that the value added from the agricultural sector has never been affected by government e...

After its development and phenomenal success, Total Quality Management (TQM) was applied outside the industrial sectors to service organizations, such as banks. This paper investigates the application of TQM to a service organizations using Jordanian baking sector as a model example. Banking is an important sector in Jordan. The government has introduced several laws and constitutions aimed to ...

This study estimates liquidity premiums using the recently developed Liu (2006) measure within a multifactor capital asset pricing model (CAPM) including size premiums and a time varying parameter model for the West African emerging market of Nigeria. The evidence suggests that liquidity factors are relevant only for financial and basic materials sector stocks while size factor is more generall...

Specification of PM2.5 spatial and temporal characteristics is important for understanding PM2.5 adverse effects and policymaking. We applied network analysis to studying the dataset MIX, which contains PM2.5 emissions recorded from 2168 monitoring stations in China in 2008 and 2010. The results showed that for PM2.5 emissions from industrial sector 8 clusters were found in 2008 but they merged...

The COIN (Enterprise COllaboration and INteroperability) platform allows exposure, integration and application of interoperability and collaborative services in various business domains. As part of the COIN FP7 project, the objective was to exploit the COIN platform and apply its services in the marine shipping sector. In this demo, we demonstrate how COIN services are used to expedite and simp...

The study suggests that the construction sector plays a leading role in the improvement of socioeconomic conditions and the built environment in every country. The study revealed that the construction sector remains as one of the key sectors in the economy in terms of its share of GDP (i.e. 9.1% for 19932011 period) and the overall industrial output( i.e. 35.9% for 1993-2011 period). Also, the ...

social capital can improve industrial growth via different mechanisms. in this study, taking the improvement of technology through social capital as one of the mechanisms, we have analyzed the effect of social capital on industrial growth theoretically and empirically. according to the findings of the article, derived from our cointegration model, and iranian economic data (1966-2006), social c...