This paper, I have focused on the tax side of the fiscal policy to  investigate the past and future behavior of fiscal sustainability in Iran. To do so, I have employed two different forward-looking and backward-looking approaches. First, the backward-looking approach is the fiscal policy rule proposed by Daving & Leeper (2011). Precisely, this rule determines that whether the fiscal policy is ...

Hall, Robert Ernest, 1943– Forward-looking decision making : dynamic programming models applied to health, risk, employment, and financial stability / Robert E. Hall. p. cm. – (The Gorman lectures in economics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14242-5 (alk. paper) 1. Households–Decision making–Econometric models. 2. Families–Decision making–Econometric models. 3. De...

We outline theoretical ideas on the soft and hard dynamics of strong high-energy interactions and discuss promising directions for future high-energy experimental investigations including the ones which would allow one to reveal the three-dimensional structure of QCD bound states, investigate the onset of regime of large parton densities, and observe the violation of the DGLAP evolution equatio...

The location path language XPath is of particular importance for XML applications since it is a core component of many XML processing standards such as XSLT or XQuery. In this paper, based on axis symmetry of XPath, equivalences of XPath 1.0 location paths involving reverse axes, such as ancestor and preceding, are established. These equivalences are used as rewriting rules in an algorithm for ...

The recent spree o f cam pus, a n t i­ sweatshop protests across the country continued Tuesday, as students from Princeton and Harvard held demonstra­ tions in anticipation o f the meetings Ivy League adm in istrators held beginning Wednesday. Students gathered to show their desire for an increase in rules that form the code o f conduct fo r the C o lleg ia te Licensing Company (CLC). The CLC i...

This paper establishes a stylized fact: in a cross-section of American consumers, consumption is an extremely poor predictor of future income. The PSID now contains the majority of the lifetime income stream for an early cross-section of consumers. Under the assumption that consumption is a function of the expected present value of income, I invert this function and compare the realized present...

Increase in the prevalence of disease and illness has dramatically altered the landscape of pediatrics. As a result, there is a demand for pediatricians with new skills and a sharper focus on preventative health. Patient demand and shifting pediatric illness patterns have accelerated research in the field of pediatric integrative medicine. This emerging field can be defined as healing-oriented ...

NATURE REVIEWS | NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 4 | OCTOBER 2003 | 8 2 9 The theoretical concept of working memory assumes that a limited capacity system, which temporarily maintains and stores information, supports human thought processes by providing an interface between perception, long-term memory and action1–3. There are many approaches to the study of working memory, using a range of empirical and t...

Looking Back, Moving Forward I am delighted to present the fourth issue of the ACG Case Reports Journal, which culminates our first year of publication. Over the past year, we received 470 submissions, of which 81 were selected for publication. Our success would not be possible without the efforts of the authors, reviewers, and editors, as well as ACG Publications Committee and ACG support staf...

evaluating, and expanding innovative strategies for HIV prevention and care. Horizons developed and tested ways to optimize HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs; worked to reduce stigma and improve gender-biased behaviors; and greatly expanded knowledge about the best ways to support, protect, and treat children affected by HIV and AIDS. In all its projects, Horizons strengthened the ca...