Relevant literature suggests that the most important determinant of health care spending is real GDP. Moreover, there is considerable evidence that health care spending rises at a faster rate than real GDP. This paper uses recently developed tests for the existence of a long run relationship to analyze the links between health care spending and GDP. We are, particularly, interested in estimatin...

Moving on from [Coleman, J.S., 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, London] and [Putnam, R.D., Leonardi, R., Nanetti, R.Y., 1993. Making Democracy Work Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, Chichester], an ever-growing literature claims that repeating trustful interactions in the economy do sediment ...

This paper is an attempt to test the existence of Wagner’s Law in Pakistan. In this connection the Johansen and Juselius (1990) Cointegration approach has been used to test the long-run relationship between government expenditures and its determinants for Pakistan. Short-run dynamics are estimated by using the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM), various diagnostics and the stability tests are use...

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abstract- according to article 44 of the i.r. of iran constitution, the iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. the aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...

increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (pmh) services in the netherlands. decentralized under the (community) participation act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” but innovation, even when pressure for c...

a basic subject in economy is change in growth of population and it’s link to ‎other variables. if growth in population is consistent with other economic ‎circumstances, it would lead to economic growth, otherwise it would be ‎problematic. by using okun's law and population structures, this paper is ‎analysis the case for iran for 1974-2010. predictions are related to 2025 ‎horizon. the re...