Mohammadreza Nasiri Nezhad; Hossein Ostadi; Amir Hortamani
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2014, , Pages 38-29
Abstract
No country today without the active participation in international trade and the global economy can not reach its proper development. The challenge currently facing developing countries including Iran is how the international activities of the company are effective. Economic development will be achieved ...
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No country today without the active participation in international trade and the global economy can not reach its proper development. The challenge currently facing developing countries including Iran is how the international activities of the company are effective. Economic development will be achieved due to the increasing volume and variety of exports and attract foreign direct investment and thus increasing export competitiveness. Therefore, in this study, the impact of taxes on attracting foreign direct investment has been examined. Panel data approach for the years 1995-2012 is used in this study. Variables include GDP, the degree of trade openness, education, population, exchange rate and inflation rate. Based on the findings of the study, exchange rate, inflation rate and taxes have a negative impact on attracting foreign direct investment and variable of trade openness, population and GDP have a positive impact. It is observed that Indonesia with higher growth in attracted investment has lower tax rates than other D-8 countries in different years.
Shahram Arianmehr; Abolfazl Yahyaabadi; Amir Hortamani
Volume 4, Issue 13 , January 2014, , Pages 28-11
Abstract
The transference of economic activities to the private sector and the government withdrawal of its economic activities are introduced as dominant solutions to today's economic problems and growth in countries, over the past two decades. This strategy -which takes place in order to return the government ...
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The transference of economic activities to the private sector and the government withdrawal of its economic activities are introduced as dominant solutions to today's economic problems and growth in countries, over the past two decades. This strategy -which takes place in order to return the government activities to the private sector known as privatization- can make fundamental changes in behavior and nature of the economic activities. Unlikely to the previous studies, which have been extremely done so far regarding the effects of privatization but in micro scale there are still few studies regarding the practical experiences of the privatization in different countries, in macro scale. This research demonstrates the effects of privatization on economic growth with controlling of critical Levine and Renelt (1992) growth models, as well as, empirical findings from previous studies, about D-8 countries, for the period between 2001-2009 and by using of the dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM). The results confidently prove that, as was expected, the privatization strategy has positive (although negligible) and significant impacts on economic growth in the mentioned countries.
