Mehdi Behname

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Investing in gold markets for several reasons such as: make a profit, asset value, jewelry, and medical will be done. For this reason, gold prices forecast have been considered. In the past, various methods have been used to predict the gold prices. In this study, we decided to revise the price of gold in quarterly forecast by using monthly informa...

The aim of this paper is to survey the relationship among natural resource, income inequality and openness in Iran by using the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model in the period 1980-2009. The stationary test reveals that our variables are both I(0) and I(1), so for that reason, we used the ARDL approach to estimate long run and the short...

The present research studies the causality relationship between the three variables of foreign direct investment (FDI), export (EX) and gross domestic product (GDP) for the period from 1977 to 2009 using Panel model for Mena countries. Having performed the variables stationarity test, Pedroni co-integration test has been done which indicates that t...

The present article studies the long-run causal relationship between coal consumption and economic growth in the Greater Middle East zone. Four countries of this zone, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, have been coal consumers in the time period from 1965 to 2008. After performing unit root test for variables, Pedroni co-integration test is to be d...

This paper use the urban set data for studding the FDI impact on average wage level in MENA countries. The results show that the openness to FDI tends to increase wage level of MENA countries. The positive impact remains significant after controlling for the capital labor ratio, industrial structure and human capital stock. Our results also suggest...