The Effect of Government Health Expenditures on Economic Growth in Countries of D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation

Background: Providing healthcare services is one of the essential needs of a community that its shortcoming is considered as a state weaknesses causing widespread social discontent. Accordingly, this study was done to determine the impact of health expenditures on economic growth in D8 Organization for Economic Cooperation members. Methods: In this causal-analysis study, related data and statistics were extracted from WDI2013. Economic assessment was done through Eviews 6 software and using panel data over the period from 1995 to 2012 for D8 countries. Results: According to the results, one-percent increase in each of the variables of government health expenditure and gross capital formation increases economic growth by 0.03 and 0.09 percent respectively. Also one-percent increase in the fertility rate decreases economic growth by 0.04 percent. Conclusion: Given the significant positive impact of government health expenditure on economic growth, it is recommended that policy makers of D8 members consider this type of expenditure as an investment not a cost and by appropriate policies give priority to funding for the health sector and take a step toward achieving economic growth

The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Economic Growth in Member Countries Department of D8

The objective of this research was to study the effect of information and communication technologies(ICT) on economic growth in member states of the D8. This research method was an analysis-causal and aimed at the application and fact and information about the variables used in this study was extracted from WDI2015. Also, Econometric tools used in research was Eviews Software and the econometric method is panel data and time domain is 2008 to 2014 and spatial domain including Iran, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt and Nigeria. The results of this research indicated that the coefficient for each of the variables in the model were consistent with the theoretical bases and statistically significant and information and communication technologies has a significant positive impact on economic growth

Studying the Impact of Management of Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Instability on Total Return of Tehran Stock Exchange

The Objective of this research is studying the impact of management of central bank’s monetary policy instability on total return of Tehran stock exchange from the first quarter of 1998 to the fourth quarter of 2011. For this purpose, first, the instability index of monetary policy is estimated using EGARCH model and then the impact of central bank’s monetary policy instability on total return of Tehran’s stock exchange has been examined using Johansen-Juselius method. The results of the model indicate that the impact of central bank’s monetary policy instability, coin price, land price index and interest rate on total return of Tehran’s stock exchange have been significantly negative, while central bank’s expansionary monetary policy and gross domestic production have significant positive impact on economic growth. Also, the results based on vector error correction model indicate that each period (a quarter), about 0.01 of short term imbalances is adjusted to achieve long term balance

Study of the Instability Trend of Rural House Price in Iran

The objective of this research is to study of the instability trend of rural house price in Iran over the period of first quarter of 1996 to fourth quarter of 2015. To quantitative instability of rural house price, EGARCH model is used. The results indicate that the volatility of rural house price was high in the second quarter of 2001, the second and forth quarter of 2006, the second quarter of 2008 and second quarter of 2014. As among the volatilities respectively, the volatilities of the second quarter of 2006 and second quarter of 2014 were higher than others. Also, in other periods, the volatility of rural house price had a stable trend