This paper describes an agent-based model of interacting firms, in which interacting firm agents rationally invest capital and labor in order to maximize payoff. Both transactions and production are taken into account in this model. First, the performance of individual firms on a real transaction network was simulated. The simulation quantitatively reproduced the cumulative probability distribu...

VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 1 was a rolling competition in which participants would submit a set of weekly predictions for movie revenue and viewer rating. This was a closed world contest in which contestants were provided with a set of Twitter indices, bitly links, and access to the Internet Movie Database. In order to facilitate these predictions, we have created a web-deployable system that com...

In a two-stage supply chain composed of a supplier and a retailer, the supply chain models under a fuzzy environment are researched. The parameters of market demand function, the costs of the supplier and retailer are treated as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The decision processes are analyzed under the decentralized and centralized decision, and the decision model with revenue sharing contract is...

This paper discusses the influence of time inconsistency problem on technology-leading firms' choice between in-house production and technology transfer. Because of incredibility of innovator's commitment of not exporting after licensing, she may not be able to extract rent from licensing as much as when she could commit credibly. Facing this distortion, she chooses in-house production when the...

The study investigates the impact of taxation on the Nigerian economy for the period 1994 -2012.The dependent variables used in the model includes: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a parameter for measuring economic growth, Inflation and unemployment. The objective is this study is to determine how taxation affects these macroeconomic variables. To avoid spurious results, the data set collected ...

Economic growth and health expenditure in Nigeria have become major priorities, there is no doubt that has risen over the years. According to studies, revenue are important factors contribute a country's economic growth. Using pairwise granger causality, study investigated relationship between oil revenue, expenditure, The variables of interest were expenditures, real gross domestic product, co...

Nepal, like most developing nations, must overcome several economic obstacles in order to pursue sustainable growth and development through taxation. The issue over whether taxes are an effective instrument for fostering the literature is still open since different studies have shown conflicting results on impact of growth. goal study determine relationship between Nepal's tax revenue sources g...

Context: China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions in rural Chinese health care. However, little is known about the effects of its individual policy features or its impact on village clinics (the primary care backbone of rural China). Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether...