Energy
Dhulfiqar Hameed Abed Hameed Abed; Yousef Mohammadzadeh; Ali Rezazadeh
Abstract
Today, energy is one of the economic and even political challenges within and between the countries of the world. Reducing energy intensity or increasing energy efficiency is a priority in the planning of policy makers of major countries. The important thing is that along with the phenomenon of globalization, ...
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Today, energy is one of the economic and even political challenges within and between the countries of the world. Reducing energy intensity or increasing energy efficiency is a priority in the planning of policy makers of major countries. The important thing is that along with the phenomenon of globalization, the developments of one country spread to other countries, which has been more attention in recent studies. Hence, the present study examines the energy intensity spillover and the factors affecting it with an emphasis on financial development among 35 countries of the Asian continent during the years 2000-2021. This study has used the dynamic spatial panel approach (with two SAR and SDM approaches) for this purpose. The results of this research show that energy intensity spreads spatially between neighboring countries, so that an increase in energy intensity in one country also increases energy intensity in the neighboring country. Also, financial development has a negative effect on energy intensity, and therefore countries with higher financial development have been able to reduce their energy intensity. Also, a higher degree of economic freedom and a lower level of corruption have had a negative impact on energy intensity. On the other hand, the countries that have enjoyed more natural resource rents have had significantly higher energy intensity. Another important point is that financial development spatially has a negative impact and the abundance of natural resources has a positive spatial impact on energy intensity in neighboring countries.
Economic Growth
Yousef Mohammadzadeh; Samad Hekmati Farid; Elmira Sharifi
Volume 7, Issue 26 , February 2017, , Pages 97-112
Abstract
Although it is generally agreed that there is a role for the government to redistribute income in favor of the poor and provide public goods and services, there is considerable disagreement over how far the government should go in these areas.On this issue, a variety of conflicting theoretical explanations ...
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Although it is generally agreed that there is a role for the government to redistribute income in favor of the poor and provide public goods and services, there is considerable disagreement over how far the government should go in these areas.On this issue, a variety of conflicting theoretical explanations has been advanced that can only be resolved through empiricalinvestigations. According to importance of this issue the important question arises that, what is the effect of government size on good governance and economic performance? This study examines the relationship between government size, good governance and economic performance by estimating dynamic models using panel data from 50 selected countries for the period 1996-2013.The results show that the government size, and inflation have a negative and statistically significant effect on good governance indicator. Also employment index has a positive and significant impact on good governance indicator.The growth model also indicates that the government size has a negative and good governance indicator has a positive effect on economic growth. The interactions effects of government size and good governance indicator show that the size of government through governance indicator has a negative impact on economic growth. Also human development index, foreign direct investment, export and ICT's share of the imported goods have positive and significant effect on economic growth. Shrinking the size of the government and reducing its involvement in the economy, are two key policy recommendations of this study.
