abstract in this paper, the effect of foreign sector macro-variable on inflation dynamics and firms’ pricing behavior has been investigated in the context of a small open economy new keynesian phillips curve. this curve is derived and estimated for a developing oil-exporting economy suffering from dutch disease. this version of nkpc is an extension of leith and malley’s (2007) small open econom...

Defining strategic position of the organizations within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important phases of strategic planning to which extent that one of the fundamental schools of strategic planning is the strategic positioning school. In today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creat...

“Bazaar” is a Persian word from the language of Iranians of 2500 years ago which has entered the languages of other countries. “Bazaar”, the trading or marketing place with the architectural principles and concerns, was formed in Iran because of the long experience of marketing. This has become a valuable inheritance of Islamic ideological civilization and Iranian advanced architecture and a mo...

Innovation is the key to the economic development in today’s knowledge driven economy. World markets increasingly demand knowledge-intensive production and innovation-based competition. Iran still remains largely a natural-resource-based economy. To become competitive in today’s market it needs urgent shift towards a more knowledge-based economy which requires strong innovation system. This stu...

This paper examines the transformation of the Iranian economy through the Twentieth Century within a global context. At the start of that century, the Iranian economy had long remained stagnant, poor, and largely agrarian, with a marginal role in the world economy. By the turn of 21 century, Iran had transformed into a complex and relatively large economy with important consequences for the eco...

BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

this paper investigates the forecasting performance of different time-varying bvar models for iranian inflation. forecast accuracy of a bvar model with litterman’s prior compared with a time-varying bvar model (a version introduced by doan et al., 1984); and a modified time-varying bvar model, where the autoregressive coefficients are held constant and only the deterministic components are allo...

the contemporary globalization which is based on post-fordist economy, was formed on the basis of informational capitalism, and has been differentiated from other concepts due to some characteristics like information economy, global economy, and network economic activities.     the characteristics of post-fordist economy create a situation where capitals and productions are changed from place-...

INTRODUCTION As a common type of malignancy, breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women globally. The purpose of the current study was to analyze Iran research performance on Breast Cancer in the context of national and international studies, shown in the publications indexed in Scopus database during 1991-2015. METHODS Data were retrieved from the Scopus citation database in ...