Article history: Received 24 November 2015 Available online 27 December 2016 JEL classification: C72 C78 C92 D03 D86

in this study, we assess the impact of oil price changes on the macroeconomic variables of some oil importers in oecd countries, including usa, italian, france and japan during the period 1960-2002. the results for different countries imply asymmetric impact of oil price changes on gdp growth rates; moreover, the results show that monetary shocks are an important and noticeable factor explainin...

On the basis of the results of reviewing various approaches to semantic interoperability and an inventory among content providers a set of rules for metadata generation is proposed. Keyword list: Terminology, semantics, knowledge organisation, interoperability, thesaurus, classification, ontology, metadata, mapping, comparative semantic analysis, vocabulary, XML, RDF, UML, schema, terminology m...

Using a sample of 10 European countries and 17 industries covering the period 1981 to 1999, we test whether the EU’s Single Market Programme had a significant procompetitive effect in terms of a reduction in firms’ markups over marginal costs. In the framework of the markup estimation method suggested by Roeger (1995), we employ a panel approach for each of the sectors to test for both an insta...

This article introduces the symposium on model uncertainty and robustness. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D81; D91

Article history: Received 2 March 2015 Available online 10 July 2015 JEL classification: C70 D44 D60 D82

This introduces the symposium on dynamic general equilibrium. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: E10; E20; E30

Article history: Received 26 February 2008 Available online 1 December 2009 JEL classification: C62 C72 D44 D61 D82

Article history: Received 30 March 2013 Accepted 14 May 2013 Available online xxxx JEL classification: C02 C13 G14