Similar Search Results

Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed more to COVID-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, globalization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219663

The impact of economic globalization on the shadow economy in Egypt

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Mai - 2017 - This version: 24.03.2017

This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645904

An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries. There has been significant cross-country variation in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622723

Covid-19 fatalities and internal conflict : does government economic support matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2021

countries, the estimation results demonstrate that the positive effect of COVID-19 fatality rates on internal conflict may …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643553

The effects of international sanctions on military spending of Iran : a synthetic control analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019

We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123033

A matter of trust? : political trust and the Covid-19 pandemic

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534679

The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity : evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295084

The impact of US trade sanctions on the global trade of target countries : do the political institutions of the targets matter?

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024

We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by employing a gravity model that incorporates data spanning from 1980 to 2020 across 79 nations. The results reveal that both partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464169

Years of life lost to revolution and war in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510202

The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024

This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563835