The abrupt breakup of the USSR and socialist bloc in the early 1990s dealt a devastating blow to the island's economy. Almost overnight, beneficial aid and trade provided by the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ground to a halt, including 80% of foreign trade previously conducted as barter and sales of 13 million tons of oil per year at preferential prices. When the Cuban economy bottomed...

Business to Government (B2G) e-commerce has increased manifold the opportunities available for entrepreneurs for global trade. The entrepreneurs can deal with businesses around the world, evaluate offers, undertake complex negotiations and realize successful deals in the electronic marketplace. In this paper, we demonstrate how the use of transducers can be very effective for generation, negoti...

Negotiation between two agents is modelled as a one-time encounter between two extended logic programs. Each offers an answer set. Their mutual deal can be regarded as a trade on their answer sets. An agent can achieve this by weakening its program to surrender some literals that conflict with the offer of the other agent. We examine how ways of weakening affects the answer sets, and how they m...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of implementation of the FTAA and China’s lower import tariffs on international trade of soybean oil, soybean meal, and soybeans. A two-commodity spatial model was formulated. The base model was calibrated to simulate the average level data of 1996, 1997, and 1998. Two alternative trade scenarios were simulated. The results indicated tha...

Main tasks  Highlight the role negotiation plays in employment relations  Outline the main negotiating processes and differences between them  Consider the changing balance between the different processes Summary It is negotiation that gives effect to the employment relationship. Negotiation involves far more than the management-trade union bargaining over wages and conditions with which it ...

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

Wiley, New York, pp. 211–229. Teuteberg, F., Kurbel, K., 2002. Anticipating agents negotiation strategies in an e-marketplaces using belief models. In: Abramowicz, W. (Ed.), Business Information System, Proceedings of BIS, Poznan, Poland. Wirtz, K.W., Adam, S., Liu, X., Baumberger, N., 2004. Robustness against different implementation of uncertainty in a contingency DSS: the Prestige oil spill ...

This study aims at comparing the economic relations of Japan with Iran and with Saudi Arabia. The comparison of these two relations is important as Iran and Saudi Arabia are leading exporters and Japan is a large importer of crude oil in the world. After a brief overview of the history of these two relations, the criteria of trade complementarity, i.e. Trade Potential Naive Assessment, Cosine M...