Maysam Musai

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Tehran

This paper investigates the causal relationship between education and GDP in 40 Asian countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis for the period 1970-2010. A three-variable model is formulated with capital formation as the third variable. The results show a strong causality from investment and economic growth to educat...

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship among environment, economic growth and openness in Iran for the period 1970-2011, based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. The study finds a cointegrating relationship among these variables with co2 emission as dependent variables. The results imply GDP contribute most t...

In this paper, using LSDV approach to testing the effects of accession to GATT/WTO in a panel of developed and developing countries, we find that accession, on average has positive effects on the GDP and export of developed countries and has negative impact on GDP of many developing countries with the negative effects on export for a number of them...

This paper will study the relationship between divorce and Iran’s economic-social variables. The results showed that there is a significance relation between income distribution and divorce such that the worse income distribution quality, the more divorces will occur. Among other results of these paper, the direct relationship between divorce rate...

Factors having an influence on travel demand to Iran are explored. The hypothesis specifies the variable of “domestic upheavals and insecurity” as the most significant obstacle to expansion of the demand for travel to Iran. Several demand models are briefly reviewed, and then in a macro model the function of demand for travel to Iran is estimated,...

In this paper, we investigate the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation and economic growth. For this purpose, we investigated the data related to 76 countries throughout the world in 2008 by using endogenous growth model. In this model, we set domestic gross production as a function of entrepreneurship and innovation, physical capital a...

In this article, the demand functions for cinema in different provinces are estimated using the Almost Ideal Demand System. Then price and income elasticity are calculated for each province and for the entire country. The obtained results show that price elasticity for the entire country is equal to -0.91; and in the provinces except for Isfahan, H...

In this paper we intend to respond to the questions of: “What impacts do the subsidies that the government is granting to the printed press directly and indirectly, have on their circulations or on the demand for the press?”; and if the intention behind endowment of these subsidies to the press is to support their publishing in proportion to their...

In this paper we had studied the relationship between social networks and micro (small)-shareholders, also, and we had answered this basic question that whether social networks affect shareholders decision- making for entering stock market and selling and buying the shares? If it so, which one has the greater effect? This study is a survey, studied...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between gross domestic investment (INV) and saving rates for 40 Asian countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis for the period 1970-2010. The results indicate no long run relationship as well as no causalities between these two variables in these countries. The findings...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between education and GDP in developing countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis for the period 1970-2010. A three-variable model is formulated with capital formation as the third variable. The results show a strong causality from investment and economic growth to educ...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between gross domestic investment (INV) and GDP for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis for the period 1970-2010. The results show a strong causality from economic growth to investment in these countries. Yet, investment...

Abstract Masoole, a rural protected national heritage of Iran is characterized by the unique architecture of its inhabitants. This paper tries to survey the reasons of traveling to Masooleh as an important center of rural tourism in Iran .Two factors were studied during this objective: 1) rural properties 2) socio-economic factors. Statistical...

This paper examines the relationship between health expenditure and economic growth in Iran for the period 1970-2007, based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. The study finds a cointegrating relationship among real GDP, health expenditure, capital stock, oil revenues and education, although among them, health spending explains j...

This paper, seeking an answer to this problem that what the relationship between demand for travel to Iran and Human Development Index of selected countries. Our methodology is for measuring the effect of human development index on tourism demand, using linear regression coefficients and obtains the effects Multipliers of three basic dimensions of...

In this paper we had studied the relationship between social networks and micro (small)- shareholders, also, and we had answered this basic question that whether social networks affect shareholders decision-making for entering stock market and selling and buying the shares? If it so, which one has the greater effect? This study is a survey, studied...

We are intending to find out any effects of unemployment insurance pension on welfare of pensioners. Negative effects of unemployment in personal, family and social dimensions from one side and further effects on society on the other may lead to non-stop increase of social costs. Therefore it is necessary to find out different guidelines for recogn...

This paper seeks to respond to this major question that if Iran accedes to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and observes copyrights, in the realm of intellectual property, what demand and supply changes would occur in Iran's book market. To respond the above question first some instances of breaching the copyrights in book publishing sector is in...

In this paper we are going to find the answer of these questions: what is the relationship between social development and economic development? Whether any of them is the prerequisite of the other? Does one of them is the cause and the other the effect? Does The relationship between these is interactive and each of these is both cause and effect? I...

One of the challenging subjects in Islamic economics is necessary or unnecessary compensation for currency devaluation in exchanges (especially in loan). In this article, eight reasons have been presented for necessity of currency devaluation compensation. On the basis of finding of this article, to sum up, currency devaluation compensation is far...

The relationship between economic growth and income distribution is an essential economic issue that has attracted attention of economists, in particular development economists, who have offered a long range of opinion to explain the issue. Some strongly believe there is a conflict and inadaptability between equal income distribution and economic g...

In this article, we seek to study the relationship between education and economic growth. For this purpose, we studied information relating to Iran and 78 other countries in the world in 2006 with the use of endogenous growth model. In this model, gross domestic product (GDP) is based on the Cobb Douglas form which is the function of human capital,...

In this study we have used a panel smooth transition regression model with fixed individual effects to estimate relationship between health expenditure and income for 16 OECD countries over the period 1993-2007. The income elasticity for all of members of OECD is estimated about 2.59, much more than unity. Therefore, the health expenditure can be c...

This paper examine the causal relationship between the health expenditure and the GDP in a panel of 11 selected oil exporting countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis. A three variable model is formulated with oil revenues as the third variable. The results show a strong causality from oil revenues and economic grow...