This study investigates the impact that Information and Enterprise Systems have on economic performance in a sample of Greek SMEs. Furthermore, it analyses whether the adoption of unstructured decision support systems (DSS), structured decision systems (MIS) and enterprise application systems (ERP) are linked to increase the firm’s turnover in four economic sectors. The results of the study ind...

Redistributive policies often sustain inefficient economic sectors. Economists routinely argue that governments should let the sectors collapse, and compensate the affected agents. We explain why governments may instead prefer the inefficient redistribution. If income shocks in a given sector are more correlated than in the rest of the economy, and redistribution is related to individuals’ inco...

the present paper evaluates the effect of investment risk spillover on key economic indicators using a CGE model and the GTAP.9 database have been used for this purpose. Two scenarios of 10% and 3% increase in investment risk are considered in order to investigate the effect of these changes according to a recent trend analysis of economic indicators in Iran and the trend of the Iranian economy...

In the ordinary macro-economic input-output tables, the industrial sector consists of several dozen industries and each industry in a certain sector is an aggregate of many companies in the sector. The sectoral statistics are the sum of statistics of companies in the respective sector. Usually, all sectors have the same set of inputs for producing outputs. For example, they have labour, capital...

This paper explores the impact of professional sports teams and stadiums on employment and earnings in specific sectors in US cities. Previous research focused on aggregate measures of income or employment. We find that professional sports have a small positive effect on earnings per employee in one sector, amusements and recreation, and an offsetting decrease in both earnings and employment in...

Regional economic structure is defined as the composition and patterns of various components of the regional economy such as: production, employment, consumption, trade, and gross regional product. Structural change is conceptualized as the change in relative importance of the aggregate indicators of the economy. The process of regional development and structural change are intertwined, implyin...

regional input-output tables historical background goes back to 1950 when its idea was proposed by walter isard. in iran, regional accounts generation started in the fifth development plan before the islamic revolution, but these accounts have been generated only for some provinces. the generation and completion of these accounts and tables on the basis of surveying and mechanical methods or a ...

Methods A literature review was carried out using thesaurus and free terms in several databases and grey literature. Setting: Out-patient and in-patient sectors including possible measures at the interface of out-patient and in-patient sectors and stakeholders involved: State (as regulator), third party payers and patients (funders); pharmaceutical industry. Inclusion criteria: Studies or docum...

The following study is based on a hybrid statistical-deterministic model designed for the assessment of the daily concentration of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide  and particulate matter (PM10) as major pollutants in the Greater Tehran Area (GTA): the capital of Iran. The model uses three available or assessable variables including economic, meteorological and environmental in the GTA for the y...