The price of a barrel of crude oil doubled within a few months last year. Although prices have been easing lately, for those who paid more than $3 for a gallon of gas, the memory is not likely to fade quickly. But worries about higher gas prices don’t end at the pump. Oil price shocks—sudden and sharp increases in the price of oil and its derivatives like gasoline—are associated in the popular ...

A well-known model due to J.-M. Lasry and P.L. Lions that presents the evolution of prices in a market as the evolution of a free boundary in a diffusion equation is suggested to be modified in order to show instabilities for some values of the parameters. This loss of stability is associated to the appearance of new types of solutions, namely periodic solutions, due to a Hopf bifurcation and r...

‎financial market modeling and prediction is a difficult problem and drastic changes of the price causes nonlinear dynamic that makes the price prediction one of the most challenging tasks for economists‎. ‎since markets always have been interesting for traders‎, ‎many traders with various beliefs are highly active in a market‎. ‎the competition among two agents of traders‎, ‎namely trend follo...

INTRODUCTION Materia Socio Medica Journal has a long history. It was founded in 1978. AIM To evaluate journal articles in 2015 and compare findings to previous years. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study has retrospective and descriptive character, and included the period 2009-2015. RESULTS A total of 99 articles were published in Materia Socio Medica during 2015 and it shows an upward trend du...

Increasing grain price volatility over the last year has revived the discussion on optimal marketing strategies. Various models of optimal grain marketing have been proposed and simulated in the literature. In this study an overview on these models is presented and critical aspects are discussed. Optimal strategies are then applied to the wheat market in Germany and Poland. Results indicate tha...

abstract comparison of food prices in different periods, indicates fluctuations and continually upward trend. any change in agricultural sector variables, as main food supplier, will affect food price. productivity shocks and production gap are examples of such variables. in this paper ,hodrick prescott and kalman filters are used as generators of productivity shocks and production gap series. ...

the regulated price policy may be implemented for some products. it is generally implemented for some products such as electricity, natural gas, water and so on that are supplied as monopolist. the regulated price shock on these products may lead to an adjustment in the endowments of primary factors. the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of a regulated price shock on price indices...