The extant literature is split on the best measure of marginal cost in the New Keynesian Philips Curve, with the output gap and the labor share being the most commonly advocated proxy measures. Which one is the best measure? In this article, I assume that agents update their understanding and expectation period by period, a learning process. In terms of econometrics, I use a recursive Vector Au…
Abstract. The influence of CO pretreatment on the properties of CuO/CeO2/y-Al2O3 catalysts was investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), temperature programmed reduction (TPR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and infrared spectroscopy (IR). The activities of the treated catalysts were measured in low-temperature CO oxidation reactions (
The transesterification of sunflower seed oil was carried out in supercritical ethanol without using any catalyst. Ethyl esters of vegetable oils have several outstanding advantages because ethanol is derived from agricultural products and is renewable and biologically less objectionable in the environment. On the other hand, because of lower volatility, ignition delay and combustion problems c…
The transesterification of triacetin to methyl acetate catalyzed by 11 kinds of low boiling point amines was examined at subcritical methanol temperature as model reactions to simulate the biodiesel production. It was found that the branched amines showed higher yield of methyl acetate than normal amines. For normal amines, the yield of methyl acetate decreased with the increase of the carbo…
ABSTRACT Electronic memory devices having the indium-tin oxide/polymer/Al sandwich structure were fabricated from polymers containing pendant azobenzene chromophores in donor-acceptor structures. The reversibility, or rewritability, of the high-conductivity (ON) state was found to be dependant on the terminal moiety of the azobenzene chromophore. While the polymers with electronaccepting term…