94 A method for introducing standardized (simulated) patients into general practice consultations Jan-Joost Rethans, Riet Drop, Ferd Sturmans and Cees van der Veuten 97 Assessment of the performance of general practitioners by the use of standardized (simulated) patients an-Joost Rethans, Ferd Sturmans, Riet Drop and Cees van der Vleuten 100 Case finding in elderly people: validation of a posta...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C11 E32 E52 Keywords: New Keynesian models Small open economy Monetary policy Taylor rules Bayesian methods Using the Bayesian approach, a small open economy DSGE model was estimated using a sample of quarterly data for three Central and Eastern Europe economies, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The hypothesis that central banks react to exchange rat...

In the last decade, the prospect of accession of Central and East European countries (CEECs) to the European Union has given momentum to the discussion of their economic integration into the EU. Thus, academic studies have generally focused on variables at the macro level and are conducted in the light of quantitative methodologies in social sciences. This paper instead focuses mainly on the in...

In this paper, we consider a frictional contact problem with normal compliance. The problem is formulated as a variational inequality, and is shown to possess a unique solution. The nite element approximation is analyzed, with a Cee alike inequality proved. A major diiculty in actually solving the problem is caused by the presence of a non-diierentiable functional in the formulation of the prob...

The NK homeodomain factor Tinman is a crucial regulator of early mesoderm patterning and, together with the GATA factor Pannier and the Dorsocross T-box factors, serves as one of the key cardiogenic factors during specification and differentiation of heart cells. Although the basic framework of regulatory interactions driving heart development has been worked out, only about a dozen genes invol...

This thesis is a result from a project funded by ITS Edulab (a cooperation between Rijkswaterstaat and Delft University of Technology) and the Netherlands Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics TRAIL, and it is co-sponsored by the NWO project " Travel Behaviour and Traffic Operations in case of Exceptional Events " (Project number 453-08-006). Preface Prior to starting my m...

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe, facilitated by its collapse in the Soviet Union, caused fundamental societal changes that led from a rigidly directed economy to a modern approach to capitalism and a market economy. The process of transition from communism to capitalism is, in Czech literature, more precisely referred to as the “transformation.” However, it also deeply affected the sphe...

In the first paper presented at the conference, Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson presented a monetary policy model estimated to fit U.K. data. The model is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model based on the popular work of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005; CEE). This version of the DSGE model is characterized by a number of economic frictions arising from wage and price...

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the production of electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global production networks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using network alignment perspectives. Foreign investment is the primary vehicle of integration of CEE electronics firms into global prod...

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