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An empirical evaluation of alternative consumption hypotheses in less developed countries :
(1980)
To accomplish the above objective, five consumption theories were selected and applied to the Iranian economy. Econometric methods and criteria were employed to estimate and evaluate the predictions of each consumption ...
The side effects of Public Law 480 and implications for economic development :
(1980)
A policy implication of the study suggests that for the future, Iran must give primary emphasis to stimulating both agricultural production and productivity in order to stimulate its economic development.
International commodity agreements :
(1982)
To address some of these issues, this study constructs a Monte Carlo simulation model to examine the expected outcomes of buffer stock intervention for the ten core commodities in terms of three success criteria: (1) price ...
A method of estimating the distribution of private wealth among American families, 1973.
(1980)
The method of estimation in this study relied on capitalization of certain flows recorded on income tax returns to estimate directly the gross value of certain classes of assets. Net wealth was then predicted for each ...
An investigation into the power of multinational corporations and an analytical evaluation of the determinants of U.S. foreign direct investment in the European Economic Community :
(1982)
This study concludes that there are many quantitative as well as non-quantitative factors of various socio-economic and political natures that determine the flows of direct investment abroad. The empirical results, based ...
The effects of economic integration on economic development :
(1980)
The determination of net welfare gains or losses resulting from economic integration depends strongly on changes in tariffs that lead to price changes and changes in patterns of trade. Therefore, much of this study was to ...
Incidence of the retail sales tax as applied to Oklahoma.
(1981)
The incidence, or distributional effect, of the retail sales tax has long been a concern of both economists and state legislators. Because the sales tax is added to consumer expenditures, and because households with lower ...
The political economy of income distribution and redistribution policies of Iran.
(1982)
An examination of redistributional policies reveals that the agrarian reform has failed to redistribute the land in an equalitarian manner. Moreover, the overall tax burden is slightly progressive. The inefficiency of ...
An analysis of the economic and ideological factors involved in the development of rights to water in the West :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
The last portion of the study offers an empirical test of the hypotheses generated by the model. Ordinary least squares equations are estimated, using the number of water rights cases as an indicator of defining and enforcing ...
The forward market for foreign exchange :
(1980)
The findings of this study support others which examine financial markets. The time series distributions are not normal; they are stable Paretian. The forward market for foreign exchange is not random; but neither is it ...