Uncertain economic situation

Economic Brief - Ethiopia’s Economic Growth Performance - Current Situation and Challenges

2.1. Real GDP growth averaged 11.2% per annum during the 2003/04 and 2008/09 period, placing Ethiopia among the top performing economies in Sub-Sahara Africa. This growth performance is well in excess of the population growth rate and the 7 percent rate required for attaining the MDG goal of halving poverty by 2015. Yet, a number of issues warrant the attention of policy makers. 22.2. Ethiopia’...

The current economic situation in Germany - Overview

Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities

Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities This paper discusses the optimal firm size in the presence of influence activities, and the level of individual rent-seeking dependent on the economic situation of the firm. Since firm size has a discouraging effect on the level of individual rent-seeking but also a quantity effect as the number of rent-seekers increases, the interplay of b...

Decision making behavior in a two-choice uncertain outcome situation.

The predictions people make when placed in a two-choice uncertain outcome situation have received considerable attention in recent years. In the classical situation, as first used by Humphreys (1939), S is asked to predict which of two events (e.g., illumination or nonillumination of a light) will occur after a signal stimulus. The two events occur with fixed but unequal probabilities, say TI a...

Discriminant Subspace Analysis for Uncertain Situation in Facial Recognition

Facial analysis and recognition have received substential attention from researchers in biometrics, pattern recognition, and computer vision communities. They have a large number of applications, such as security, communication, and entertainment. Although a great deal of efforts has been devoted to automated face recognition systems, it still remains a challenging uncertainty problem. This is ...