Seyed Nezamuddin Makiyan; Mehdi Emami Meybodi; Samaneh Eshraty; Zohreh Ahmadi
Volume 3, Issue 11 , September 2013, , Pages 84-75
Abstract
Many factors affect on the performance of economic activities. Some of these factors are out of the control which areknown in economic literature as Doing Business. Although this concept was used in economic history thought, but from the 1990s the literature of doing business has been concerned by governments ...
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Many factors affect on the performance of economic activities. Some of these factors are out of the control which areknown in economic literature as Doing Business. Although this concept was used in economic history thought, but from the 1990s the literature of doing business has been concerned by governments and international economic institutions. This study aims to investigate andcompare the most important factors, i.e.: starting a business, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders and enforcing contracts which improve the environment of doing business for growth.We examine such a factorsbetween MENA Islamic countries and the countries of OECD in the period of 2007-2012. The method which is used, is panel data regression analyses. Results indicate that the Islamic countries must have more attention to the factors of trading across borders and getting credit for improvement of ease of doing business.
Seyed Nezamuddin Makiyan; Azadeh Saadatkhah
Volume 2, Issue 5 , March 2012, , Pages 68-45
Abstract
This paper investigates the possibility of both linear and nonlinear effects of energy consumption on economic growth in Iran, using data for the period of 1959–2007 based on threshold regression. Some previous studies support the view that energy consumption may promote economic growth. However, ...
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This paper investigates the possibility of both linear and nonlinear effects of energy consumption on economic growth in Iran, using data for the period of 1959–2007 based on threshold regression. Some previous studies support the view that energy consumption may promote economic growth. However, the conclusion drawn from this study suggests that such relationship exists only where there is a low level of energy consumption in Iran. The evidence shows that, there are two break points (corresponding with three regimes) in economic growth function. For the low energy consumption regime (where per capita energy consumption is less than 5 barrels) we find that energy consumption has an important positive influence on economic growth with coefficient 0.09, which is not the case with the high or middle regime. In middle regime with per capita energy consumption between 5 and 8 barrels, the marginal effect of energy use on economic growth gets to 0.015. For the regime corresponding to per capita energy consumption above the threshold 8 barrels, the marginal effect of energy use is reduced to about zero. We show that a threshold regression provides a better empirical model rather than the standard linear model and policy-makers should seek to capture economic structures associated with different stages of economic growth.
