The aim of this paper is to simulate the effects of some macroeconomic policy tools on production and inflation of Iran by the current worldwide financial and real crisis. The theoretical framework of the analysis is based on the so-called ‘IMF/World Bank Integrated Model’ which is the synthesis (a merger) of the basic monetary approach of the Balance of Payments used at t...

background the unregulated availability and irrational use of tuberculosis (tb) medicines is a major issue of public health concern globally. governments of many low- and middle-income countries (lmics) have committed to regulating the quality and availability of tb medicines, but with variable success. regulation of tb medicines remains an intractable challenge in many settings, but the reason...

since the last few years, criminal policy authorities of iran started to withdraw their previous emphasis on repressive approaches and under the impact of criminological studies and translation of policy initiatives in western countries new concept and vocabulary were entered into official discourse and criminal justice policy of iran. consequently, a list of community-based approaches to crimi...

We consider the problem of a firm selling multiple products that consume a single resource over a finite time period. The amount of the resource is exogenously fixed. We analyze the difference between a dynamic pricing policy and a list price capacity control policy. The dynamic pricing policy adjusts prices steadily resolving the underlying problem every time step, whereas the list pricing pol...

Motivated by service capacity-management problems in health care contexts, we consider a multi-resource allocation problem with two classes of jobs (elective and emergency) in a dynamic and non-stationary environment. Emergency jobs need to be served immediately, while elective jobs can wait. Distributional information about demand and resource availability is continually updated, and we allow ...

(1) Problem Definition: We provide guidelines on three fundamental decisions of customer relationship management (CRM) and capacity management for profit-maximizing service firms that serve heterogeneous repeat customers, whose acquisition, retention, and behavior depend on their service access quality to bottleneck capacity: How much to spend on customer acquisition, how much capacity to deplo...