College of Administration and Economics

The Department of Economics at the College of Administration and Economics, University of Mosul, held a discussion for the master’s thesis entitled “Gross Investment in Light of Savings and Perceived Corruption in Selected Countries.”

The study, presented by graduate student Hadeel Sabah Ibrahim from the Department of Economics, aimed to: explore the literature on investment and its influencing factors, clarify the economic relationships between savings and investment, as well as to identify the quantitative relationship among the study’s variables using econometric methods.

The study reached several conclusions, the most important of which was that interest rates have varying effects in the short and long term. Specifically, the relationship between interest rates and investment volume is positively correlated in the long run, while in the short term it is negative and statistically significant—consistent with economic logic. Additionally, the study found no significant relationship between GDP and the volume of investment.

The examination committee was chaired by Assistant Professor Dr. Rabah Jameel Saad Al-Din, with members including Assistant Professor Dr. Omar Hisham Sabah, and Assistant Professor Dr. Zuhair Hamed Turki from the University of Tikrit, under the supervision and committee membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Abdullah Khudhur Abtan.