examining the impacts of data modification is considered as sensitivity analysis. a lot of studies have considered the data modification of inputs and outputs in dea. the issues which has not heretofore been considered in dea sensitivity analysis is modification in the number of inputs and (or) outputs and determining the impacts of this modification in the status of efficiency of dmus. this pa...

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis we present evidence how the authorship of papers is related to the number of citations, the JEL classificatio...

Asteroseismology of the planet-hosting star µ Arae. II. Seismic analysis. Abstract. As most exoplanets host stars, HD 160691 (alias µ Ara) presents a metallicity excess in its spectrum compared to stars without detected planets. This excess may be primordial, in which case the star would be completely over-metallic, or it may be due to accretion in the early phases of planetary formation, in wh...

An identity links the rate of economic growth, the speed of poverty reduction and changes in the distribution of income during some time period in a given country. A few authors used that identity to understand the causes for observed changes in poverty and to identify the exact role of economic growth in poverty reduction. Yet, many empirical cross-country studies of the relationship between g...

The objectives of paper are to highlight mainly the marketing analysis and demand as well profit Badi making involving Women workers in Keonjhar district Odisha. study is based on primary data collected from 200 Self Help Groups badi respondents five selected areas. KEYWORDS: Badi, Marketing, Entrepreneurs, Women, Group. JEL Classification: - O

This paper explains why the overall stance of monetary policy is effected by both interest rates and the exchange rate, and hence why a Monetary Conditions Indicator can provide useful information about the stance of policy. Three output gap equations estimated in this paper reveal that the real interest rate and the real exchange rate both affect excess demand but that the real interest rate i...

i n the past decades, the effect of different tax amendments on various economic issues has been studied. the majority of these studies have avoided considering shadow economy as part of the calculation and analysis, and an issue, which has received little attention, is the relationship between green tax reforms and shadow economy, as for informal labor, which is well-connected to unemployment ...

abstract research and development (r&d;) spending plays a major role in innovation, raising productivity and increasing economic growth. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of r&d; spending on growth and total factor productivity (tfp) in iran's agricultural sector. we estimate growth and productivity models using auto-regressive distributed lag (ardl) approach and data over ...

the aim of this work is to examine the feasibilities of the support vector machines (svms) and k-nearest neighbor (k-nn) classifier methods for the classification of an aquifer in the khuzestan province, iran. for this purpose, 17 groundwater quality variables including ec, tds, turbidity, ph, total hardness, ca, mg, total alkalinity, sulfate, nitrate, nitrite, fluoride, phosphate, fe, mn, cu, ...