abstract oil export revenues have a major share in both iranian government incomes and gross domestic product (gdp). with regard to the importance of agricultural sector in economic growth, rural development and rural welfare improvement, this sector indubitably influenced by temporary and unexpected shocks in oil export. therefore we employed feder(1982) and auto-regressive distributed lag (ar...

t he objective of this study is using the markov switching vector autoregressive method and regime dependent impulse response functions to measure the pass-through of world food prices to consumer price index in iran from 1990 to 2013. with respect to information criteria and the log-likelihood ratio statistic, msia(2)-var(1) model has a better fit to data than other models. the magnitude of th...

t his paper investigates the existence of possible spillover effects among four main asset markets namely foreign exchange, stock, gold, and housing markets in iran from 2002:03 to 2015:06. for this purpose, we have exploited sigma-point kalman filter (spkf) to extract the bubble component of assets prices in the aforementioned markets. then, in order to analyze the price bubbles spillover amon...

p eople’s business credit program (kur) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in indonesia this study aims to estimate the impact of kur program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (psm). the survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 kur receivers and 177 non-kur receivers. r...

abstract the study examines the growth effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality in nigeria between 1970 and 2013. variables like per capita income, environmental degradation, foreign direct investment, human capital, inflation, trade openness, interest rate, and the interaction term between foreign direct investment and carbon emission were employed in the study. a long run...

Article history: Received 17 December 2016 Available online 10 July 2017 JEL classification: C72 C79 D82 D83

Article history: Received 3 March 2010 Available online 3 November 2010 JEL classification: L22 L51 O31 O38

Article history: Received 2 July 2007 Revised 16 September 2008 Available online 26 September 2008 JEL classification: E21 E25 E62

Article history: Received 23 June 2006 Revised 29 July 2008 Available online 5 August 2008 JEL classification: O2 O3 I2

Article history: Received 11 June 2009 Available online 26 August 2010 JEL classification: C72 C78 D74 D82