This paper examines how a country’s organization of its financial activities its financial structure affects how corporations invest and raise funds. We provide an analysis of how financial structure affects economic growth for a given degree of financial and economic development. Differences in the organization of financial activities are shown to affect the creation of new businesses as well ...

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also discuss the challenges of account...

The effect of changes in age structure on economic growth has been widely studied in the demography and population economics literature. The beneficial effect of changes in age structure after a decrease in fertility has become known as the demographic dividend. In this paper we first present the motivation for also explicitly addressing changes in education in addition to and age structure and...

background and objectives: poverty and risk of nutritional vulnerability of female-headed households (fhhs) are usually higher than male-headed households (mhhs). this study aimed at comparing the socio-economic status, and food and nutrient intake of fhhs and mhhs based on the data from comprehensive study on household food consumption patterns and nutritional status of iran (2001-2003). mater...

one of the necessary preconditions to the establishment and stability of optimal currency area is the homogeneity of the economic structure in member states. but place with eurozone currency crisis, the question arises whether the economic structure of the eurozone countries were homogeneous? accordingly, this study by using an econometrics model and estimating it by panel data method, has been...

To characterize economic development and diagnose the economic health condition, several popular indices such as gross domestic product (GDP), industrial structure and income growth are widely applied. However, computing these indices based on traditional economic census is usually costly and resources consuming, and more importantly, following a long time delay. In this paper, we analyzed near...