he main purpose of this research is to answer the question that "How neighborhood of Iran's trading partners will have an effect on Iran intra-industry trade? For this purpose, the impact of spatial neighborhood effects of 23 major trade partners on Iran’s intra-industry trade for the period of 1995-2014, has been investigated through Spatial Panel Econometric and Maximum Likelihood Estimator (...

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure not simply overall differentials in the average wage across sectors, but also the extent to which these are associated with a range of employee, job, employer and sectoral charac...

In the framework of our research project, the entities of a supply web are designed as software agents and are enabled to simulate autonomous decisions of production planning and logistics. Those are based on specifically designed protocols to coordinate the intra-organizational and inter-organizational trade of goods and services. The focus of this paper is the design of a mechanism that helps...

This paper evaluates the research that has taken place on intra-industry trade (IIT) since the publication of Grubel and Lloyd’s pioneering volume on the subject in 1975. The evaluation of the development of the literature is organised around the themes of measurement, explanation and policy. The paper identifies significant progress on all these themes. We now have a robust theoretical framewo...

This paper discusses the characteristics and formation of inter-firm relationships in the telecommunications industry. The formation and partner selection are key issues for managers arranging inter-firm relationships. We focus on inter-firm relationships conducted by the telecommunications carriers and discuss the characteristics of the industry and possible or preferred formations and propose...

SUMMARY Diagnostic residual and partial residual plots are proposed to identify nonlinearity in covariates for generalized linear models. It is shown that these plots are complement each other in the detection of nonlinearity. In addition, a transformed additive model which allows the resulting residual and partial residual plots to be obtained through the standard least squares approach is pro...