This paper extends the standard quality ladder model of innovation and quality growth by allowing for heterogeneous industries. This enables us not only to deal with the Schumpeterian hypothesis about market power and innovation, but also to analyze industry specific demand pull and technology push effects. In accordance with the empirical evidence, we show that perspective of large market powe...

Reconfigurability and mutability are features frequently found in agents operating in heterogeneous computing environment. At the same time, they pose major challenges to the software engineering process. In this paper we review these challenges and discuss their implications towards the agent oriented software engineering methodologies. We propose a set of extensions to the Gaia agent-oriented...

The relevance of risk preference and forecasting accuracy to the survival of investors is an issue that has recently attracted a number of recent theoretical studies. At one extreme, it has been shown that risk preference can be entirely irrelevant, and that in the long run what distinguishes the agents who survive from those who vanish is just their forecasting accuracy. Being in line with the...

The presence of stock market efficiency is a distinctive characteristic of the effectively functioning market economy. Investigation of the market efficiency of seven emerging East-European stock exchanges is carried out as their major stock indices (BELEX15, BET, CROBEX, ISE100, PFTS, RTSI, SOFIX) are studied in respect of long-range dependence (LRD), persistency, and forecasting possibili...

the concept of countervailing power is a term to describe the situation in which the market power of one side (sellers) may be balanced by the market power of another side(buyers) in a given market. the purpose of this paper is to test this hypothesis and to determine whether the market power of sellers has had a restraining influence on increases in buyer market power in iran’s large industrie...

This paper questions the widely held view that B2C eCommerce markets are characterised by a high intensity of competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical studies which test them. We argue that the goods sold in B2C eCommerce have to be interpreted as heterogeneous “composite goods”, that market transparency in B2C ...

in this research, performance of portfolios formed by use of grid strategy based on new variables (aggressive, indifference and defensive stocks) presented by rahnamaye roodposhti (1388), and traditional ones (growth, growth-value and value stocks), calculated with sharpe and treynor performance measures and tested by an active portfolio management approach to identify the portfolios by perform...

We attempt to reconcile Gabaix and Koijen's (GK) recent Inelastic Market Hypothesis with the order-driven view of markets that emerged within microstructure literature in past 20 years. review most salient empirical facts arguments give credence idea market price fluctuations are mostly due order flow, whether informed or non-informed. show Latent Liquidity Theory impact makes a precise predict...