This paper examines the causality between concentration in banking industry and economic growth by using data across 15 countries named in "Iran outlook in 2025", over the period 2004-2011. Our aim is to assess whether the economy grows more or less rapidly in areas where the banking sector is more concentrated. The topic is motivated by the fact that the causality between concentration in bank...

the shape of urban development and its impact on economic growth is one of the most important issues in urban economic literature. in accordance to the corresponding theory, economic growth and urban concentration have an inverse-u shape relation. the shape of urban development is related to how resources are spread out in existing cities of an urban system and investigated under the term of ur...

This paper uses a novel, globally harmonised city-level data set – with cities defined at the Functional Urban Area (FUA) level to revisit link between urban concentration and country-level economic dynamics. The empirical analysis, involving 108 low- high-income countries, examines how differences in impinge on changes employment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita labour productivity cou...

the organization of the petroleum exporting countries (opec) has a key role in making universal political and economic decisions regarding petroleum. therefore, it seems highly important to assess the opec member’s degree of concentration and its monopoly.  this research, aims to assess and classify the concentration of petroleum export in the opec countries during the 1997-2011 period by the h...