The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between the structure and performance in the banking industry of Iran. In doing so, the data and information of public and private banks from 1996 to 2015 is examined using Toda-Yamamoto causality test (TY) and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach. Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) (the degree of market concentration) ...

background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

globalization is integration of national economies in global economy and infers on increasing the flow of goods and services. in this study the consequences of globalization were studied through the analysis of level of international trade index (lit) in the caviar export equation. the required data were gathered from statistical yearbook of foreign trade, statistical yearbook of fisheries, sta...

This article examines whether domestic saving rate leads to higher domestic investment rate in the case of Malaysia. We argue that the results obtained from cross-sectional studies are not able to address this issue satisfactorily and highlight the importance of individual country case studies. Using the recently developed autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing procedure, the results rev...