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...

Sets of top-ranking pages in 19 languages returned by the Google search engine were downloaded and their titles and meta tagged keywords analyzed. Results showed significant differences in proportion of pages with keywords depending on language; specifically, pages in Dutch, French, and German showed the highest proportions with keywords, while pages in Chinese and Korean showed the lowest prop...

Sets of top-ranking pages in 19 languages returned by the Google search engine were downloaded and their titles and meta tagged keywords analyzed. Results showed significant differences in proportion of pages with keywords depending on language; specifically, pages in Dutch, French, and German showed the highest proportions with keywords, while pages in Chinese and Korean showed the lowest prop...

Recently, we have presented an initial implementation of a model agent-based e-commerce system, which utilized a simple price negotiation mechanism—English Auction. In this note we discuss how a Dutch Auction involving multiple units of a product can be included in our system. We present UML diagrams of agents involved in price negotiations and briefly discuss rule-based mechanism exemplifying ...

Over the past few decades, wealth of Africa has not made African wealthy. There is a voicing that cursed, whether richly poor or poorly rich. Sub-Saharan commonplace for political turbulence, as well humanitarian and economic misery. In such catastrophic situa-tion, economics studies have focused on Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, Con-flict Resources in this area. A systematic scientometric an...

abstract background: in recent years, infrared thermography tools are used for viral disease detection. however, no study has been to evaluate the value of this device. the current study was designed to review the effectiveness of infrared thermography technique for diagnosis of viral diseases in international airports. materials and methods: this study was conducted as a systematic review. all...