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Iran's Role in Energy Security at Regional and Global Levels
Koolaee, Elaheh - In: Iranian Economic Review 16 (2011) 1, pp. 95-115
Afghanistan, has escalated the importance of Iran in ensuring energy supply in this strategic region. In this essay, the author … considers the impacts of the political and security developments in post- bipolar system era on the role of Iran in energy …
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Qajar Rule in Iran: in the Qajar Government Events that Changed the Fate of Iran
Rashidvash, Vahid - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 2 (2012) 6, pp. 841-849
study scientifically a main and decisive part of the history of Iran, namely the Qajar dynasty when it is a cause of deep …, is to consider the role and the effect of relations between Iran and Russia in the form of the Golestan and Turkmanchy … parts from Iran, people's dissatisfaction and determining the Araxes river as the major border between Iran and Russia. …
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Oil Prices and Interstate Conflict Behavior
Hendrix, Cullen S. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2014
Anecdotal evidence suggests high oil prices embolden leaders in oil-rich states to pursue more aggressive foreign policies. This article tests the conjecture in a sample of 153 countries for the time period 1947–2001. It finds strong evidence of a contingent effect of oil prices on interstate...
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ECO and Regional Trade
Koolaee, Elaheh - In: Iranian Economic Review 12 (2007) 1, pp. 63-83
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as...
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Factors influencing the formation of corruption in oil-rich countries
Fouladi, Masoome; Setayesh, Hedieh; Goudarzi-Farahani, … - EcoMod Network - 2014
Corruption undermines economic development and therefore it is one of the major factors hindering economic growth and political stability, especially in the developing countries. Studies in recent years show that countries with rich natural resources have the potential to shape corruption....
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Business Cycles in Oil Exporting Countries: A Declining Role for Oil?
Huseynov, Salman; Ahmadov, Vugar - EcoMod Network - 2014
In this paper, we investigate business cycle regularities in oil exporting countries. We ask the question whether oil exporting countries are all alike or whether economic fluctuations and the response dynamics of macroeconomic variables are similar. Besides we also test for the possible sources...
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Resource curse: A comparative study
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Rukavina, Marko - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Hochschule für … - 2014
examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …
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An Estimation of the Impact of Oil Shocks on Crude Oil Exporting Economies and Their Trade Partners
Hesary, Farhad Taghizadeh; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abdoli, … - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 4, pp. 571-591
equation framework for different countries with business relations. As expected, we found that oil-producers (here, Iran and …
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Resource curse: A comparative study
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Rukavina, Marko - 2014
examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330964
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The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report.
Garcelon, Marc; Walker, Edward W.; Patten-Wood, Alexandra; … - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 1998
In the early 1990s, energy companies around the world began to realize the enormity of the still-untapped oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian Sea basin, igniting a scramble to develop new extraction and transport networks to bring these resources to the world market. The result has...
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