T his paper investigates the effect of monetary policy on the distribution of economic activity and agglomeration economies within a country. The considered channel for this effectiveness is the availability of credit to firms in various regions and the effects on the labor and consumer welfare. For this purpose, data for manufacturing firms located in 30 different provinces in Iran ...

Behavior in the Ultimatum Game has been well-studied experimentally, and provides a marked contrast between the theoretical model of a self-interested economic agent and that of an actual human concerned with social norms such as fairness. How did such norms evolve, when punishing unfair behavior can be costly to the punishing agent? The work described here simulated a series of Ultimatum Games...

This paper presents a microfounded theory of long-term development. We model the interplay between economic variables, namely the process of human capital formation and technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes affect each other and are endogenously determined. The model is analytically solved and simulated for illustrative purposes...

Train energy saving problem investigates how to control train's velocity such that the quantity of energy consumption is minimized and some system constraints are satis ed. On the assumption that the train's weights on different links are estimated by fuzzy variables when making the train scheduling strategy, we study the fuzzy train energy saving problem. First, we propose a fuzzy energy ...

Precise specification of meta-models is an important prerequisite for the successful application of a model-driven engineering (MDE) process. One means of precise specification are textual constraints. However, the task of constraint development is time-consuming and error-prone if done manually. In this paper, we present both a methodology and a tool for developing constraints in a systematic ...

Since the beginning of computer science, raising the abstraction level of software systems has been a continuous process. One of the latest steps in this direction has led to the usage of modelling languages in software development processes. Software models are abstract representations of software systems which are used to tackle the complexity of present-day software by enabling developers to...