after the war with iraq which ended in 1988, iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on five-year national development plans. the main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. this paper investigates the extent to which iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

the support of agricultural sector is adopted in various countries of the globe through different means and mostly with the aims such as increasing farmers incomes, protecting domestic products, ending dependence (on foreign goods), augmenting employment and reducing poverty. this paper tries to survey the support policies in agricultural sector in different countries as far as their components...

We model aggregate delinquency behaviour for consumer credit (including credit card loans and other consumer loans) and for residential real estate loans using data up until 2008. We test for cointegrating relationships and then estimate short run error correction models.We find evidence to support the portfolio explanations of declines in credit quality for consumer and for real estate loans, ...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the welfare cost of inflation in Iran. We first use the long-horizon regression approach developed by Fisher and Seater (1993) to obtain an estimate of the inflation rate elasticity of money demand and then the Baily’s consumer surplus approach to calculate the welfare cost function. The results show that reducing inflation rate from 40% to 0% increases ...

This paper uses neural network models and the ensemble technique of stacked generalization to investigate the relative importance of situational and demographic factors on consumer choice. We discuss the theoretical justification for this approach and develop the level-0 and level-1 models which we estimate using a consumer choice data set from AT&T. The findings confirm the superiority of situ...

Temporary price reductions (sales) are common for many goods and naturally result in large increase in the quantity sold. In previous work we found that the data support the hypothesis that these increases are, at least partly, due to dynamic consumer behavior: at low prices consumers stockpile for future consumption. In this paper we quantify the magnitude of the effect and derive the quantita...

Supporting production and consumption of domestic goods is always a top priority in our country's economic and trade policy and a common approach in this regard, political and legal support and encourage the consumption of domestic goods by utilizing and stimulate patriotic feelings and pushing these feelings to use domestic goods and establish business of entrepreneurs. On this basis, the main...

Demand estimation is important for new-product strategies, but is challenging in the absence of actual sales data. We develop a cost-effective method to estimate the demand of new products based on choice experiments. Our premise is that there exists a structural relationship between manifested demand and the probability of consumer choice being realized. We illustrate the mechanism using a the...