Trading down and the business cycle

Business Cycle Features In The Iranian Economy

Identification and classification of the business model elements influencing on trading strategy in startup business with a meta-synthesis approach

Nowadays, new opportunities for business development have been created on the internet, which have shaped different business concepts. In addition, the number of e-businesses has increased recently but in many cases, they have faced great challenges for development and survival. These challenges are mainly reduced by having a proper plan for the business model (BM). Despite the extensive studie...

Bank Lending Behaviour over the Business Cycle in Iran

This paper studies bank loans over the business cycles in Iran to determine the role of Iranian banks in stabilizing credit. By estimating the long-run relations using dynamic OLS and fully modified OLS estimators, the findings show that real bank lending is positively related to real GDP in the long-run providing evidences of the pro-cyclicality of bank lending in Iran. Hence, Iranian banking ...

INTERNATIONAL Globalization and ISO 14001 trading up or trading down ?

1) This article is an abridged version of “ Racing to the Bottom ? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001”, American Journal of Political Science, 2006, 50(2), pp. 347-361. The authors gratefully acknowledge the permission of Blackwell Publishing. For the unabridged version, including a description of the methodology used by the authors in their research, see : http://faculty.washington...

Analysis of the Relationship between the Business Cycle and Inflation Gap in Time-Frequency Domain

Controlling the business cycle and minimizing the inflation gap are considered as two major goals for monetary policy. Hence, the policymaker will be able to make more decisive decisions with an awareness of the dynamic relationship and causal relationship between these two variables. Accordingly, the present study uses a discrete and continuous wavelet transform to provide a new understanding ...