Majid Ahmadian's research while affiliated with University of Tehran and other places

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Groundwater is one of the common resources in Varamin Plain, but due to over extraction it has been exposed to ruin. This phenomenon will lead to economic and environmental problems. Also, the world is expected to face with more stochastic events of water supply. Furthermore, incorporating stochastic consideration of water supply becomes more acute...
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Optimal allocation and dynamic and stochastic factors in water allocation are important. So In this paper, stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) is used determine the optimum of water allocation to farmers ofVaramin plain and municipal of Tehran city from latian dam during 1991-2012. Objective function is consumer welfare surplus that obtained from...
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Government subsidies for agricultural activities in recent decades have encouraged farmers of Hamadan-Bahar plain to extend the number of wells and irrigated farms, with no consideration of groundwater resource conservation. As a result, the level of the groundwater table has decreased continuously in this area, threatening the life of groundwater...
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According to the standard analysis of commodity prices, stockpiling is a necessary signature of speculation. This paper develops an approach suggesting that speculation may temporarily (e.g. during a few months) push crude oil prices above the level justified by physical-market fundamentals, without necessarily resulting in a significant increase i...
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This study estimates the gasoline demand function for the Islamic Republic of Iran, using the structural time series model over the period 1968-2002, and uses it to estimate the change in social welfare for 2003 and 2004, of a higher gasoline price policy. It is found that short- and long-run demand price elasticities are inelastic, although the re...
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This study estimates a gasoline demand function for Iran using the structural time series model over the period 1968-2002 and uses it to estimate the change in social welfare for 2003 and 2004 of a higher gasoline price policy. It is found that short and long run demand price elasticities are inelastic, although the response is greater in the long...
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Forests play a significant role for human's well being. Economists' attention is mostly drawn on the market value of (certain) forest products. The trend, however, is changing as non-market values of forests are increasingly appreciated and measured. Recently, the ecosystem value of natural resources has been studied by natural resource economists...

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... ) ‫جدی‬ ‫تردید‬ ‫مورد‬ ‫تنهایی‬ ‫به‬ ‫آن‬ ‫كارایی‬ ‫و‬ ‫دارد‬ ‫قرار‬ (Balali et al. 2010;Ahmadpour and Sabouhi 2009;Sabouhi and Azadegan 2014;Chen et al. 2014;Mamitimin et al. 2015;Huang et al. 2006;Tsur and Dinar 1997;Kahil et al. 2016) . ...
... Boosting the agricultural production requires not only the basic inputs, tools, machinery and assets but also an enlightened and active management aimed toward optimal utilization and longterm protection of these resources (Soltani et al., 1998;Najafi Alamdarlo et al., 2016). In this regard, one of the professional tasks of agricultural extension agents is awareness about farmers' attitudes toward their problems and barriers in the field of agriculture and natural resources (Moradi et al., 2011;Athrai et al., 2017). ...
... One of the most important dimensions is 'environmental-psychological analysis' on the exploitation of water resources. As well, the dimensions of water resource management can largely vary in a way that different human-related components and variables are taken into account together with technical, environmental, economic and institutional aspects (Alamdarlo et al., 2014). One of the most significant relevant components is 'resilience behavior' of users and stakeholders suffering from water resources. ...
... Rivlin believes that Iran has artificially boosted demands while subsidizing energy products [10]. Iran's gasoline demand function over the period of 1968-2002 was evaluated by Ahmadian et al., and they concluded that the higher gasoline price decreased social welfare [11]. ...
... In recent years, agricultural areas have increased worldwide, leading to an increase in water demands (Miao et al., 2021). In this respect, unsustainable practices have led to serious groundwater depletion and degradation in many regions of the world, thereby leading to a series of negative effects on people and the environment (Agudelo Moreno et al., 2020;Asfaw and Ayalew, 2020;Balali et al., 2011;Jia et al., 2020). Agricultural production has been influenced by major droughts, resulting in a decrease in groundwater and surface water reserves (Miao et al., 2021). ...
... In this study, the Logit model involves the variables of bid, race, religion, age, marital status, education, occupation, and salary (refer to Table 3). The study by Amirnejad et al. (2006) found that bid and income were the most influential factors for WTP, followed by education and age, but not household size. Nearly 66.8% of respondents correctly answered 'yes' or 'no' to the WTP prediction in the model, indicating a relatively good fit with the data (see also Cox & Snell R 2 and Nagelkerke R 2 ). ...
... The key role of energy availability in production promotes many oilexporting countries to subsidize the fossil fuel aiming at stimulating their economies (Shirazi et al., 2020;Aldy & Armitage, 2020). Iran holds the first rank in subsidizing fossil fuel in the world for many years as in Fig. 3, to benefit the economic pillar of sustainable development (Ahmadian et al., 2007;Chepeliev & Mensbrugghe, 2020). Figure 3 displays the natural logarithm of fossil fuel subsidization in the top 5 five fossil fuel subsidizing countries within 2010s. ...