General-equilibrium models based on increasing returns, product differentiation and monopolistic competition have attained a prominent position in trade theory and, more recently, in economic geography. This paper surveys empirical studies on issues raised by the new wave of theoretical thinking. There is a growing literature documenting spatial distributions of industries at country and region...

Recently Tseng [Merit function for semidefinite complementarity, Mathematical Programming, 83, pp. 159-185, 1998] extended a class of merit functions, proposed by Z. Luo and P. Tseng [A new class of merit functions for the nonlinear complementarity problem, in Complementarity and Variational Problems: State of the Art, pp. 204-225, 1997], for the nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP) to the s...

This paper is devoted to consider the notions of complementary problem (CP) and set-valued complementary problem (SVCP). The set-valued complementary problem is compared with the classical single-valued complementary problem. Also, the solution set of the set-valued complementary problem is characterized. Our results illustrated by some examples. This paper is devoted to co...

This paper proposes a novel robust control scheme based on delay-dependent H∞for unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) in a microgrid under the influence of the delay and parameter uncertainties. A new UPQC model considering the effects of the delay and parameter uncertainties is established. Then, the H∞ controller is designed based on the cone complementarity linearization (CCL) algorithm....

Biodiversity is known to be an important determinant of ecosystem-level functions and processes. Although theories have been proposed to explain the generally positive relationship between, for example, biodiversity and productivity, it remains unclear which mechanisms underlie the observed variations in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function (BEF) relationships. Using a continuous trait-distribution ...

This paper investigates the circumstances under which negotiating simultaneously over multiple issues or assets helps reduce ineffi ciencies due to the presence of asymmetric information. Consider the case where one agent controls all assets. One would expect that strong substitutabilities among assets, would help trade, as the seller would value the additional units less. We show that this int...

The study aims to analyze the export performance of countries and of cities within them to identify synchronized or unsynchronized movement between them. In the empirical part of the study, the measurements used to analyze the export performance of the countries included in the literature are applied to establish the export performance of a single city-Sakarya, Turkey. These measurements includ...

The minimum evolution time between multi-qubit quantum states is estimated for non-Markovian channels. We consider the maximally coherent pure and mixed as well $X$ initial discuss impact of coherence behaviour on their speed both dephasing dissipative processes. role non-zero value under information backflow conditions non-unital process revealed by flow limit ($\tau_{QSL}$). trade-off mixedne...

Two results on the second-order-cone complementarity problem are presented. We show that the squared smoothing function is strongly semismooth. Under monotonicity and strict feasibility we provide a new proof, based on a penalized natural complementarity function, for the solution set of the second-order-cone complementarity problem being bounded. Numerical results of squared smoothing Newton a...