the main purpose of this study was to estimate the market demand of tractor stock in africa, west asia and other target markets for iran manufactured tractors. box and jenkins, and exponential smoothing methods were applied, using data from 1961 to 2006. results indicated that demand for tractor stock in the target markets will be approximately 533 thousand sets in 2012 and consequently the ann...

Commodity prices are in the news. Oil prices have dropped 65% since June 2014. Metal prices are also down substantially, albeit they have declined more gradually since 2011 on account of slower growth from emerging markets that account for more than half of global metal consumption. In this special issue, we focus on food prices, which have in many ways a wider impact than oil prices. While int...

One of the goals of the government is to increase the competitiveness of domestic firms to export goods and services. Moreover, the role of exports in many economic sectors has been emphasized. There are two essential requirements for developing non-oil exports: first, the presence of firms in export markets and increasing their competitiveness; second, the survival of them in international mar...

in today’s world, markets are no longer under the limitations of a specific location and the importance of this issue is illustrated in effective decision making of economic agents, because the world financial markets are considered often valuable guideline for domestic and foreign markets. in this research, due to the connections between world stock markets, stock markets in countries with the...

~ S national economies have become increasingly inter-related, national governments have broadened their efforts to coordinate trade-related policies. For years GATT negotiators concentrated on tariff reduction and trade liberalisation. The recently completed Uruguay Round negotiations included a number of agreements in previously uncharted waters (e.g., agreements on government procurement, tr...

Background and Aims: Influenza A virus subtype H9N2 have continued to circulate in domestic poultry farms in Asia since 1998. The virus circulates in live bird markets, missing link in epidemiology of avian influenza. Regarding previous studies on H9N2 viruses of Iran and having no data on this subject in Iranian live bird markets this study was conducted to analyze genetically hemagglutinin pr...

Using recent data on propensity-score matched firms from the U.K manufacturing industry, the paper uncovers evidence that acquisition FDI is an important channel of direct technology transfer from foreign multinationals to domestic exporters. This is consistent with the recently developed theory by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2002) which, because of sunk costs, predicts firms engaged in FDI act...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2014 1089 viruses showed high nucleotide identities, which suggested that the outbreak viruses in domestic ducks and Baikal teals might have an identical origin. Although research on the epidemiologic features of this outbreak is currently underway, it seems likely that on the basis of reassortant sequence features of the 8 g...

One of the features of a financial market, the stock market, in particular, is the market sentiment which is the overall attitude of investors toward a particular security or financial market. Investors always seek to create a portfolio with minimum risk while maintaining the expected return level. Therefore, perceiving the relationship between the stock returns and markets returns can be helpf...