This book examines the policies, conducts, and performances of organizations tasked with developing medium and high technologies in Iran. This collection assists readers in understanding the interaction between different players involve in the process of Iran’s science, technology, and...

I Embedding Theory: Time-Delay Phase Space Reconstruction and Detection of Nonlinear Dynamics -- 1 Embedding Theory: Introduction and Applications to Time Series Analysis -- 2 Determining Minimum Embedding Dimension -- 3 Mutual Information and Relevant Variables for Predictions -- II Methods of...

Purpose: Innovation and technology development policy-making naturally encounters numerous uncertainties and complexities, especially in developing countries, for the sake of the prevailing prospect of decision makers focusing on hard evidences, and neglecting key and effective social ones; in...

This study measures the degree of financial integration between Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Turkey on the one hand and the United States and United Kingdom on the other hand. Using cointegration, error correction, and Granger causality tests I find that only the Turkish equity market is...

In recent years, analysts have used cointegration tests in determining whether the residuals of the purchasing power parity (PPP) model are mean-reverting. Cointegration methods, however, rest on the binary selection of the series as either stationary or integrated of degree one. This approach...