Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar

• PhD in Economics
• Research Associate at Hamburg University of Technology

Public good games in coalitional form, such as the ones depicting international environmental agreements for the reduction of a global pollutant, generally foresee scarce levels of cooperation. The incentive to free ride, that increases for higher levels of cooperation, prevents the formation of stable coalitions. The introduction of other–regardin...

The paper aims to provide a thorough statistical analysis of marine fuel prices, including the high sulphur (HS 380) and marine gas oil (MGO) prices, to indicate bunker price fluctuations in four major world bunkering spots: Houston Rotterdam, Singapore, and Fujairah. In addition, the derived time series of the difference between HS and marine gas...

This paper examines the relationship between host-site institutional support, innovation capabilities and exports using data from a survey of 50 Taiwan semiconductor firms. The major questions asked in the paper are whether host-site institutional support is important in stimulating firm-level innovation capability, and whether the latter is import...

This study analyses the influence of host-site institutional support, foreign ownership and regional production linkages on firm-level technological capabilities using data from automotive firms in Indonesia. The results show that host-site institutional support and foreign ownership are positively correlated with technological capabilities. In add...

It has been projected that more than 15% of the Malaysian population will consist of aged people by 2030 and Malaysia is expected to be among the most rapidly ageing countries in the world. Policy design should begin now so that in the future, it will be easier to handle retirement plans and social security insurance.With the central public pension...

Tourism as an infant industry has affected socio-economic status of countries during recent years. This industry is regarded as one of the important income resources in countries at present which plays a major role in creating employment and establishment of new economic and income opportunities. Impact of tourism on all types of socio-economic sta...

Managing huge amounts of assets in large banks require regular and constant control, as the slightest weakness in one of such bank's various fields of activity can affect its assets in the long term. On the other hand, the increasing and expanding private banks and competitions between public and private banks further denote the importance of appro...

The current study investigates factors that influence tourist satisfaction. The research framework was constructed based on the extensive literature review to establish the hypothesis. The questionnaire was designed and included a total of eight attributes factors and thirty sub attributes identified to be examined. The results found fifteen satisf...

This study proposed to investigate how FDI effect economic growth and how important are human capital and its interactions with domestic investment. By decomposing productivity growth into technological progress and efficiency improvement, we are able to consider two kinds of spillovers through FDI: technology spillovers and efficiency spillovers....

One of the most significant parameters effective on human capital performance is the role of individual health and its related indexes in enhancing economic level of a country so that one of the important subjects is investment in individuals' education. Among health features of a society we can refer to high life expectancy, low death rate in chil...

Importance of education and the role that it plays in economic growth acceleration of each country is unavoidable. On the other side, statesmen and policy makers intend to allocate the budget based on return of each plan. Objective of this paper is to test effectiveness of realized educational expenditures at various levels on economic growth of th...