Mansour Zarra-Nezhad

Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz | scu · Department of Economics

The purpose of this research is to model the casual relationship and rank factors affecting the stock selection in Tehran Stock Exchange in 2003 using Network Analysis Process (ANP) and Decision Making Trial and Evaluation (DEMATEL). To this end, a tentative model was built based on Amiri’s model (2010) and those of Lee et al. (2011) as well as Edi...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic severely contracted Iran's economy in 2019-2021. Mass vaccinations in Iran, which began in February 2021, gradually made expectations for the future optimistic and increased investment incentives. Considering the importance of this issue, the main goal of the present study is to understand the effect of shock to the...

Analyzing the Effect of Export Barriers on the Marketing Performance in Iranian Petrochemical Companies

The purpose of this research is to analyze the pattern of tourism destination branding with an emphasis on social networks with a sociological approach. The research method is a qualitative case study and the participants are elites. By using the purposeful sampling method and theoretical saturation technique, key informants (including 16 people) w...

Extended abstract 1- INTRODUCTION Sustainable development is defined as a form of development process that meets the current human requirements without affecting the ability of future generations to cover their needs. Water is considered an essential resource for food and industrial productions, environmental protection, and a key irreplaceable re...

Public transportation is considered one of the main requirements for economic growth and the sustainable development of cities. Lack of appropriate public transportation infrastructure can cause various socio-economic issues, including congestion, waste of time and fuel, intensive air pollution and the emission of green-house gasses, high urban den...

Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Introduction The idea of removing zeros from a monetary unit has been implemented in many countries that have experienced significant inflation, with the aim of increasing the nominal value of money and eliminating the effects of inflation. Economic experts have varying opinions on the possibility and effects of...

Urban public transport demand response to various internal and external shocks is one of the most important issues in urban public transport policymaking. The purpose of this study is to investigate the spillover effects of demand for urban public transportation in Tehran megacity using global vector autoregressive approach during 2008-2019. Th...

Forming capital or investment is important to maintain economic growth. Recognizing the factors affecting the investment helps its growth for this reason. Islam has also paid a lot of attention to this issue and with regard to this issue, economists with a focus on Islamic economics have been looking for the extent and how Islamic economics issues...

Objective: one of the basic criteria for deciding to buy and sell securities on a stock exchange is stock returns. For this reason, it is necessary to examine the factors affecting stock returns. Capital technology shocks and business cycles are factors affecting stock returns. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of...

The informal economy appears to be growing in less developed countries alongside their formal sectors. The informal economy, which is neither taxed nor scrutinised by government determines its work environment according to its own internal behavioural rules. These types of economic activities are an important part of a country's economy and have si...

The reform of the tax system has always been a major concern for economists as well as a major challenge for policymakers. One of the main priorities of the Iranian tax system is to delve into consideration of obligatory religious payments (Khums) and charity in order to persuade people to pay taxes as well as to reduce tax burden. One of the sugge...

Sources of financing government expenditures are different and various. One of the most important sources of government income is tax. Taxes are imposed in various ways and types. One of the most important type is value added tax (VAT). Since VAT is a broad-based tax, almost all governments impose this type of tax. VAT is a multi-stage tax levied o...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of geographical factors on economic growth. To this end the impact of geographical factors on economic growth has been investigated with the emphasis on countries' access to the sea, coastline length, geographical location, arable land and rainfall. The research applies extreme boundary anal...

In this article, the book Introduction to the Economics of Sanctions: Theoretical Foundations and History of Sanctions in the World and Iran, written by Mehdi Toghyani and others, was reviewed. This article is organized into four sections: introduction, introduction and description of the book, content evaluation of the book, as well as conclusions...

In the present article, the book “An Introduction to the Economics of Sanction: The Theoretical Foundations and the History of Sanctions in the World and in Iran” by Mehdi Toghyani et al. was reviewed. This paper consists of four parts, namely the introduction, presentation and description of this work, content evaluation, conclusion and suggestion...

Underground economy with its complex, diverse and widespread aspects leads to various economic and social issues, obscure data and statistics, inadequate performance of socio-economic policies, and finally, the slowdown of the development process in different societies. Studies conducted about the underground economy have mainly focused on estimati...

Macroeconometric models have recently been widely used, due to having a logical framework and their ability to contain behavioural presuppositions. Reviewing recent economic literature, especially on institutional economics, emphasizes the influence of cultural and religious components on the economy. Following the failure of growth theories to exp...

Cualquier organización deportiva necesita un sistema de evaluación del rendimiento para garantizar la conveniencia de sus actividades, especialmente en entornos dinámicos y complicados. El objetivo de este estudio fue utilizar Modelización Estructural Interpretativa (ISM) para proponer un modelo de evaluación del rendimiento para las oficinas de jó...

Urbanization has proved to be an inevitable feature of the development of humankind, and an indispensable part of national modernization, closely connected to economic development. In recent decades, Iran has been experiencing rapid urbanization, represented by significant changes in its demographic composition and large-scale expansion of its urba...

The purpose of this study is to investigate passengers' preferences and willingness to accept low-cost air transport services. Choice experiment was applied to examine passenger choices associated with a bundle of service attributes applicable to low-cost air transport service. Results of multinomial logit models demonstrated that passengers are wi...

The existence of a strong and dynamic capital market is one of the important pillars of economic growth and development. The stock exchange is effective in attracting small and unproductive savings and promotes, mobilize, and allocate savings among alternative uses for the development and prosperity of the country. One of the most important and bas...

Tourism brings positive impacts on personal income and more employment opportunities. Tourism is one of the main determinants of economic growth and development. Given the importance of tourism, identifying the economic factors affecting the foreign tourists helps policymakers to improve or maintain the status quo. Among other factors, exchange rat...

Tourism has already become a source of growth and employment in many countries around the world and accounts for a large share of global income. Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world today and plays an important role in the economies of countries. It is often recognized as one of the driving forces of economic growth and development...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of Value Added Tax (VAT) on Iran's economic growth. For this purpose, Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGE) has been used. Data are derived from the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Iran in 2011, prepared by the Parliament Research Center in 2015, which is the latest SAM of Iran. Policy...

This study proposes the use of fuzzy AHP method to evaluate the structure of airline business model attributes and its corresponding hierarchy of evaluation index. As the AHP method requires, several pairwise comparisons were made using linguistic variable to determine the weights of criteria and sub-criteria. According to the results, value added...

Any sport organization intensively needs a performance evaluation system to ensure the desirability of its activities, particularly in dyna-mic and complicated environments. The objective of this study was to use interpretive structural modeling (ISM) to propose a performance evaluation model for the youth and sports offices in Khuzestan Province,...

Nowadays, the attention to Islamic economics has grown as a special approach and discourse in the field of economics, and Islamic economists emphasize this approach to theorizing Economic issues. The results of this approach can play a prominent role in the economic policies of Muslim countries. The review of recent economic literature, especially...

Over the three past decades there has been a growing interest in application of political marketing by political parties in electoral campaigns in developed countries (Lees Marshment, 2001), and now this interest is growing in other countries too. Political parties are now using commercial marketing to attract the voters. Political marketing is, th...

he main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of maritime transportation instability on international trade instability based on wavelet smoothing and spatial panel data econometric method during the period 1990-2012. The results showed that the spatial effects have an impact on international trade instability. So that a sudden 100 perc...

Banking system plays an important role in the economy of any country. The success of an economy depends on the sound and efficient operation of the banking system. Banks, as financial institutions, have the role of financial intermediaries. Savings, investment, production, employment, and growth in the national economy are influenced by the decisio...

In a few recent decades with increasing extension of capital markets, investigating effective factors on stock return has become the most important and the most challenging financial management issues. So, different models such as capital asset pricing model and multifactor Fama and French are introduced for examine effective factors on stock retur...

Monetary policy regime varies from country to country, depending on the circumstances of the country. Four basic types of monetary policy have already been experienced internationally including exchange-rate targeting, monetary targeting, inflation targeting, and monetary policy with an implicit but not an explicit nominal anchor. Choosing a moneta...

Information constitutes the main basis for decision making. Sometimes the amount of information obtained is so huge that the inappropriate use of unanalyzed information will lead to making wrong decisions. Defining practical indices and the quantification of quality indicators in different domains can be of remarkable help to discover fundamental p...

National accounts data are of the most important statistical tools in planning and making economic policy. Therefore, forecasting the main economic variables in the economy is of great importance. Economic growth is one of the key macroeconomic variables, which gets top priority in forecasting. The purpose of this study is to identify the appropria...

The purpose of this research is to estimate the size of smuggling in the Iranian marine transport sector using the Multiple Index-Multiple Index (MIMIC) method with emphasis on applied marine transport indices for the seasonal period 2014:1-20019: 4. Variable such as unemployment rate, currency gap, inflation and liquidity were used to reflect the...

The prevalence of financial and economic crises in the last two decades and its adverse effects on the economic stability of various societies, especially developing and vulnerable countries, has led researchers to pay special attention to the issue of economic resilience. In this article, in addition to review concepts of resilience in various sci...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the household’s behavior in response to the kinds of the wealth and the estimation of marginal propensity to consume out of wealth. By using Ando-Modigliani consumption model and applying Engle-Granger co-integration strategy, marginal propensity to consume out of wealth is estimated in Iran during 1982-...

Customer satisfaction plays an important role in banking system because costumer is the ultimate aim of this system. Given the importance of customer satisfaction, it is necessary to investigate factors influencing customer satisfaction. To this end, Ahvaz branches of Bank Meli Iran were considered as a subject of the study. The research model was...

In this study, a macro-economic model consisting of twelve behavioral equations and fourteen identity equations was estimated with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policies set out in the fourth and fifth development plans. In the estimated model, the variables of development expenditures, current expenditures and t...

In many countries, tourism is one of the most important and ever growing industries in the world which generates jobs and revenues. The sacred places located in some countries provide a particular opportunity to tourism industry to develop toward a sound direction and in a sustainable way. In this respect, Saudi Arabia has a unique situation due to...

The shadow economy is a real phenomenon with significant and complex concepts that requires deep study and attention. For all the countries of the world especially developing countries which possess a more expanded volume of these activities, always there are concerns about the growing tendency of shadow economy. Due to the hidden nature of the sha...

The global oil market is considered as the most important energy market of the world. Oil price volatilities can have considerable effects on the structure of oil market and the economy of petroleum exporting and importing countries, especially OPEC member countries as the largest entity that is consisted of 12 oil exporting developing nations. The...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors affecting tax efforts in Iran. To this end the impact of per capita income, national income, share of agricultural value added in GDP, share of value added of manufacturing and mining industries in GDP, net export to GDP ratio, deferred foreign debt, and inflation rate on tax efforts was es...

Financial intermediaries are institutions serve as a medium between the investors and the borrowers to decrease cost, provide economies of scale, and create efficient markets. The aim of this research is to rank the twenty-six financial intermediary companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange for the period 2009- 2013. For this purpose, data enve...

One of the most controversial and relatively old subjects in economics is the optimal size of government and its impact on macroeconomic variables. Government size and extent of public enterprises are of crucial impacts on economy. Thus, one of the main objectives of the governments is to achieve full employment. This paper investigates the effects...

Explaining the concept of resilient economy and putting it forward as current discourse requires a thorough literature review. The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the book “Analysis of Macroeconomic Indicators in Iran with Economic Resistance Approach” written by Ahmad Tashkini and Amir-Reza Souri. Review of this book in terms of fo...

Shadow economy according to one of the broad definitions, embraces all economic activities that avoid government regulation and taxation and escapes detection in the GDP of the economy. The shadow economy is a pervasive phenomenon that can significantly affect the formal economy and the social and economic development of a country. The purpose of t...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the spatial effect on fluctuations of trade based on the Spatial Panel data Econometric Method and Wavelet Smoothing using bilateral trade weighted matrix. The negative spatial dependent are estimated. Using data from 34 most-important countries the period of 1980-2010 are investigated through Spatial...

Trade liberalization due to its improving role has been at the center of economies in recent years. Against public finances of many developing and emerging market countries, it still acts as develop alternative source of revenue. Using a panel of 83 countries, over 1990–2012, we perform Generalized Method of Moment regression to test the hypothesis...

Different theories have different predictions about the relationship between financial development and income inequality that leads to two broad categories of thought with two conflicting theoretical hypotheses. This study examines the effect of financial development on income inequality in the Iran’s economy by using a Threshold Error Correction M...

This paper aims to investigate the interaction effects among market concentration, profitability, research and development (R&D), and advertising in Iran’s manufacturing sector. For this purpose, the quarterly data on Iran’s manufacturing sector was gathered in ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification) codes, then the interaction effe...

Research and Development (R&D) is a key element for companies to improve technology or create new product to acquire patent, lower the costs, raise funds, and improve the company's ability to recruit better talent. Managers and professionals need to realize the importance of R&D. Unless managers realize this importance, there will be no ground for...

Research and Development is a necessary condition for the success of any company. R&D does improve the ability to create new product, lower costs, raise profits, and improve the company's ability to recruit better talent. The literature shows that the more companies spend on R&D, the more they achieve technological advancement and industrial develo...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology on organizational performance using Balanced Score Card (BSC) model in National Iranian Drilling Company. The research population consisted of 3000 and research sample was comprised of 341 company's experts. The sample size was selected using Cochran form...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology on organizational performance using Balanced Score Card (BSC) model in National Iranian Drilling Company. The research population consisted of 3,000 and research sample was comprised of 341 company’s experts. The sample size was selected using Cochran for...

Nowadays, Investing in the stock exchange market is an important component of the countries economy. Being able to forecast the stock price variations is of great significance for the stockholders as it will enable them to obtain the highest return on their investment. The stock price index illustrates the general state of the stock market and coul...

Forecasting economic and financial variables is highly important for economic policy-makers in any country. In this study, using Brock, Dechert and Scheinnkman (BDS) test, firstly linearity or non-linearity and then, chaoticity of the Returns in Tehran Stock Exchange Price Index (TEPIX) were examined within the period starting from March 25th, 2009...

In this article the effect of parameters uncertainty on optimal monetary policy design was investigated in Iran's economy. After estimating the monetary policy rule based on Taylor rule using both linear and non-linear approaches, the obtained coefficients of these relationships have been used to investigate the simulation of uncertainty effect. To...

This study investigates the efficiency of the quantitative targets of monetary and fiscal policies of Iranian 4th economic development plan using dynamic simulation approach. An open macro economy model was designed and eleven behavioral equations were estimated for different economic sectors of Iran for the period of 1971-2004 using autoregressive...

The government spending is a variable that explains the public sector activity in a determined period. It contains the share of gross domestic product, resources alleviation and infrastructures toward development. It can conduct economic-policy makers to change decisions and methods for GDP growth not only in the present but also in the future. In...

Abstract: The effect of globalization on income distribution is one of the most controversial issues between proponents and opponents of the globalization. A lot of research has been done on this topic all over the world and is still growing. Considering the importance of the issue, this paper attempts to examine the impact of globalization on inco...

The aim of this research is to estimate the performance of Bank Meli Iran, Ahvaz branches. Bank Performance was measured by consumer satisfaction. The research model was based on Dincer and Hacioglu (2013) approach. The model was reviewed by 30 experts who have experience in the subject and the model was then adjusted based on the consensus of expe...

This study is an attempt to empirically investigate the role of inflation on the money demand function in Iran. The main purpose of this study is to focus specifically on the relationship between inflation and money demand, that is whether the relationship is non-linear and as well as to estimate the threshold level; at which the sign of the relati...

The present study evaluates the effect of internal marketing on organizational commitment with an emphasis on the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation. The statistical population includes the headquarter offices of Aghajari Oil and Gas Operating Company of Iran, from which 100 people were selected randomly and data was gathered through a q...

This research aims to evaluate the optimum portfolio selection using with particle swarm algorithm and genetic algorithm. For this purpose, the financial information of companies listed on the Iran stock exchange, during years 2007 to 2012 is collected and using heuristic particle swarm algorithm, genetic algorithms and based on Markowitz model, me...

Specification of demand for money function has always been very important for monetary policymakers because this function can have a great impact on macroeconomy through monetary policy channel, as well as, in turn, be influenced by these variables. Having a well-specified and stable demand for money function allows for detailed analysis of how mon...

The exchange rate is one of the criteria that shows the economic situation of a country compared to other countries. It is influenced by domestic and foreign economic policies and many other variables. Real exchange rate changes are not directly observable, so it must be estimated. The two main estimating methods of real exchange rate are fundament...

The aim of this study is to identify robust determinants of economic growth in Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). To examine the robustness of 101 potential determinants of economic growth in OPEC about 11 million regressions are estimated. The results of extreme bounds analysis with the unbalanced panel data of 21 years show tha...

Selecting the most profitable option has always been the main human issue in economic matters. Risk and returns are, in reality, inversely related. The main concern of the investors is how to get highest returns with lowest risk. Since capital is limited, the optimal rule is to get the highest returns on each unit of capital with the lowest risk. R...

Due to continuous and unpredictable changes, companies and institutions face different and numerous risks every day. Various companies and institutions, in particular financial ones and even governments, face certain risks depending on their area of operation. Today, almost all activities and operational processes of companies and institutions are...

Stock portfolio selection to maximize returns has always been one of the most important concerns of investors. The fact is that investors are usually risk averse, have limited capital, but unlimited choices, and the choice is made in a risky environment. So risk is one of the most important factors influencing investors' decisions. The purpose of t...

Since multivariate econometric forecasting encounters with much restriction, using univariate models seems to be a proper alternative approach. But most of these methods require large amounts of data to achieve a good result. Fuzzy regression approach which uses the fuzzy numbers for modeling and prediction needs less data compare to nonfuzzy appro...

The main purpose of this study is Evaluation of technical efficiency in the education departments of oil Ministry subsidiaries, using data envelopment analysis. In this study, the performance of education departments in the 12 oil Ministry subsidiaries, has been studied during 2011-2012. The results show that the managerial courses that held in thi...

This study examines the effect of financial development on income inequality in Iran for the period of 1971 to 2011using Johansen cointegration approach. To this end a financial development index has been constructed from six sub-indices including banking sector, non-banking financial sector, regulation and supervision, monetary sector and monetary...

The aim of this study is to review the rentier state theory, with special regard to Iran. Iran’s rentier state is highly dependent on oil revenues, but much less on tax revenues. Even this negligible reliance on tax revenues, itself seems to be indebted to oil revenues. Thus the main research hypothesis is that Iran’s oil revenue is one of the main...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the spatial volatility of trade based on the Spatial Panel data Econometric Method and Wavelet Smoothing. The negative spatial dependents are estimated. So that, an increase by one percent in trade volatility and unknown volatility in neighboring countries causes 2.1, 0.55 percent increase in trade vo...

This study examines the effect of financial development on income inequality in Iran for the period of 1971 to 2011 using Johansen cointegration approach. To this end a financial development index has been constructed from six sub-indices including banking sector, non-banking financial sector, regulation and supervision, monetary sector and monetar...

Information system is one of the key elements of any organization. Using information technology, paperless offices, virtual organizations, digital organizations, e-banking, e-commerce, e-cities and e-government were developed. Today, concepts such as knowledge management, and business intelligence which is one of the most advanced information techn...

The education departments are very important in developing the knowledge and improving skills that enable employees to increase their capacities to perform assigned tasks optimally. The purpose of this study is evaluation of technical efficiency of education departments of Iran’s Oil Ministry subsidiaries using data envelopment analysis (DEA) which...

The main objective of this study is to provide a dynamic simulation model of unemployment rate in Iran by using aggregate demand and comparison with the statistics provided by the central bank. The unemployment rates in the period 1976 - 2013 using ex-post simulation and dynamic least squares simulation methods, simulation were done. To this end, a...

Introduction: In human history, hunger, unemployment, and poverty have been the concern of human society. Poverty has been always with human being as one of the major issues in human societies and cultures. It seemed along with the Renaissance and the industrialization, the problem have been tried to be resolved. But following the industrial revol...

The research aims at investigating the effect of value added of manufacturing and agriculture sectors on environmental performance index in selected developing countries. Research in this area has so far focused only on examining the effect of economic growth in general on environment, while the impact of economic growth components on the environme...

Background Social withdrawal in early childhood is a risk factor for later socioemotional difficulties. This study examined the joint effects of children's social withdrawal and mothers' and fathers' parenting styles on children's socioemotional development. Based on diatheses-stress, vantage sensitivity, and differential susceptibility models, soc...

In this study, we investigated the relationship between foreign trade and economic growth in the developing and developed countries by using extreme bounds analysis approach. For this we used unbalanced panel data of 103 variables of 94 countries (74 developing countries and 20 developed countries) during 1990-2010. The estimation results of more t...

In recent years, the formation of Islamic currency union has been considered in most OIC members countries. In this paper, the impact of formation of currency union on trade in OIC countries using OCA theory and augment gravity model from 1990-2011 was investigated. The results show that the factors such as common border, the existence of trade uni...

In a general classification, the economy of any country is divided into two parts of official and invisible economies. Invisible activities drop outside the scope of the law and official economy and strongly affect socioeconomic development and the formal sector of all countries.These activities which are known under various titles including the sh...

The importance of evaluating universities and ranking them is essential for any educational system. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the technical efficiency of Islamic Azad University of Iran. The sample study includes 16 branches from district six. The collected data are related to the educational activities of these branches duri...

The study of Islamic history is of great importance. The aim of this study is to estimate the total revenue of the early Muslims governments. To this end the contents of various historical sources have been analyzed. The available historical sources have no enough evidences in this context and there are many errors and mistakes made by historians a...

Since multivariate econometric forecasting encounters with much restriction, using univariate models seems to be a proper alternative approach. But most of these methods require large amounts of data to achieve a good result. Fuzzy regression approach which uses the fuzzy numbers for modeling and prediction needs less data compare to nonfuzzy appro...

One of the most important features of new capital markets is the presence of major investors and the acquisition of a large part of corporate ownership. The presence of major investors in the capital market raises the question of whether the ownership structure can affect the capital structure of the company. The purpose of this research is to inve...

Organizational commitment is the interest in and attachment to the organizational affairs. One of the main goals of any organization is to increase organizational commitment. There is expected to be a close link between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. The organizational citizenship behavior is a voluntary commitme...

The profitability is a necessary condition for the survival of a bank. The main part of a bank's profit comes from the return on its assets. Several factors affect the bank's profitability (return on its assets). One of these factors is financial repression by which governments channel funds from banks to themselves as a form of debt reduction. The...

Price index measures the percentage in a set of prices over time. The change in the price index over a period of time measures the inflation. Inflation is generally believed to cause income inequality, so that higher inflation seems to be associated with higher income inequality. But there is evidence to show that the inflation rate has ambiguous e...

The economies of Islamic countries have always under been the influence of trade and its effective factors. But so far, there has not been any comprehensive study concerning the effects of common currency on Islamic countries trade. This paper attempts to investigate the effects of common currency on the 49 members of the Organization of Islamic Co...

Organizational performance is the effectiveness of an organization in the achievement of its vision, mission, and goals. There are many factors affecting the organizational performance. One of these factors is organizational learning capability which is the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. The other...

Knowledge management refers to changing corporate culture and business procedures to share information and experience to increase the workforce's overall knowledge. The purpose of this research is to identify and estimate the causal relationships of factors involved in the successful application of knowledge management in the banking system. The in...