Drastic changes and turbulence in macro-economic factors have the greatest impact on banks target market attractiveness in Iran. It is assumed that conventional segmentation models at the corporate level are not efficient for banking system. This study aims to develop a new segmentation model at the industry level for banks of Iran. For this purpose, structures and variables at the industry lev...

Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on brain drain from ...

In the present paper, it is studied the price relations and how price is transmitted between the producer level and the consumer level for lamb meat. Data used in the research include consumer price index and producer price index for lamb meat covering monthly periods of 91 months since March 2001 through September 2008. Johansen's and Juselius's cointegration method and Granger causality test ...

We provide a new perspective on disagreement in in‡ation expectations by examining the full probability distributions of UK consumer in‡ation forecasts based on an adaptive bootstrap multimodality test. Furthermore, we compare the in‡ation forecasts of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) with those of UK consumers, for which we use data from the 2001-2007 February GfK NOP cons...

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the most lethal of the solid tumors and the fourth-leading cause of cancer-related death in North America. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have long been targeted as a potential anticancer therapy because of their seminal role in angiogenesis and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation of tumor survival and invasion. However, the inhibition specificity to MMPs and t...

We study the effects of oil-price shocks on the U.S economy combining narrative and quantitative approaches. After examining daily oil-related events since 1984, we classify them into various event types. We then develop measures of exogenous shocks that avoid endogeneity and predictability concerns. Estimation results indicate that oil-price shocks have had substantial and statistically signif...

There is compelling evidence that interstitial inflammation plays a central role in the loss of renal function in chronic renal disease. The combined effects of interstitial inflammation, oxidative stress and local angiotensin II activity result in the disruption of glomerulus-tubule continuity, the development of pathogenic hypoxia, the generation of myofibroblasts and fibrosis, and the impair...