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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777355603321

Titolo

30 years of IJSE [[electronic resource] ] : festschrift in honour of Professor John O'Brien . Part 1 / / guest editor, Barrie Pettman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-280-51567-8

9786610515677

1-84544-740-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

International journal of social economics ; ; v. 31, no. 5/6, 2004

Altri autori (Persone)

PettmanBarrie

Disciplina

332.6

Soggetti

Investments

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; What determines private investment in Iran?; Politics of race and poverty in Fiji; The foundations of marriage: are they crumbling?; A reconsideration on the method of economic and social sciences; Edge cities, urban corridors and beyond; Prices and subsidies for Australian psychiatric services; Motivational needs and interdependent utilities; The relationship between religion and earnings: recent evidence from the NLS Youth Cohort; Moral considerations in outsourcing to foreign labor

Factors explaining the choice of an economics major

Sommario/riassunto

Iran's third five-year development (2000/2001-2004/2005) has been considered a pivotal role for private investment in creating 700,000-800,000 jobs per annum to stabilise the rate of unemployment. This paper examines the long- and short-run determinants of the private investment function by employing the Johansen multivariate cointegration technique and a short-run dynamic model. Using annual data for the period 1960-2000, this paper finds, inter alia, that private investment is cointegrated with non-oil gross domestic product and the rate of inflation. It is found that a 1 per cent increase i