TY - JOUR ID - 35815 TI - Obstacles of Doing Business in Province of Zanjan JO - Journal of Economic Research (Tahghighat- E- Eghtesadi) JA - JTE LA - en SN - 0039-8969 AU - Meidari, Ahmad AU - Nassiri Aghdam, Ali AU - Mortezavi Far, Zeinab AD - Research Assistant Professor in Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran AD - Research Assistant Professor in Development Studies Institude of Jahad-e Daneshgahi, Tehran, Iran AD - Researcher in Development Studies Institude of Jahad-e Daneshgahi, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 48 IS - 3 SP - 129 EP - 147 KW - Business environment KW - province of Zanjan KW - survey KW - Transaction cost DO - 10.22059/jte.2013.35815 N2 - This paper aims to investigate obstacles of doing business in province of Zanjan. For this purpose, three complementary methods are used: first, surveying the business environment from the businessmen’s perspectives, using "Enterprise Survey" questionary; second, studying realized indices of business environment; and third, evaluating investors’ complaints submitted to Investment Committee of Province. Results indicate that existence of land opponents; complicatedness of dealing with permits; difficulty of getting credit; disputes between business owners and authorities of social security organization; and irregular import of Chinese products are the main obstacles of investment in zanjan. JEL Classification: D23 and R58. UR - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_35815.html L1 - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_35815_5df830667286d3aba255afc11264bf24.pdf ER -