Iran's decision to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) is now 14 years old, among the longest cases in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and WTO history. Given the fact that negotiations have not yet started, it may be the longest accession process when Iran finally joins the...

This paper attempts to investigate the causal relationship among CO2 emissions and economic growth for Iranian economy. The sample period covered annual data during 1965-2004. By applying the techniques of unit-root test and the long-run Granger non-causality test proposed by Toda and Yamamoto...

This study is an attempt to develop a model of the simultaneous structure of aggregate dynamic supply and demand to be used for estimation of parameters from data related to Iran's Economy. The method for developing the model is an application of the dynamic and simultaneous process of aggregate...

This paper presents a comparative study of private returns to schooling of urban men in Egypt, Iran, and Turkey using similar survey data and a uniform methodology. We employ three surveys for each country that span nearly two decades, from the 1980s to 2006, and, to increase the comparability...

Though Iran's economy has experienced various types of sanctions post revolution and during the war with Iraq, the latest series of economic sanctions by the U.N. Security Council, based on Resolutions 1737 and 1747, seems to have adversely affected the Iranian economy in a multi-faceted manner....