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Effective Link Operation Duration: A New Routing Metric for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
July 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The dynamic topology of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is caused by node mobility and fading of the wireless link. Link reliability is often measured by the estimated lifetime and the stability...
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The Alternative Decision Tree Learning Algorithm
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The application of boosting procedures to decision tree algorithms has been shown to produce very accurate classifiers. These classifiers are in the form of a majority vote over a number of...
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DDoS Protections for SMTP Servers
February 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many businesses rely on email of some form for their day to day operation. This is especially true for product support organizations, who are largely unable to perform their role in the company if...
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Insular Decision-Making In The Board Room: Why Boards Retain And Hire Sub-Standard Ceos
January 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
It is widely believed that corporate boards are overly reluctant to fire their CEOs. The conventional explanation for retaining a CEO regardless of his/her talent is that a CEO chooses the board...
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Perceptions Regarding Entrepreneurship In An Emerging And Culturally Diverse Economy: A South African Survey
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Of all the developing countries that participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey, South Africa was ranked the lowest, in terms of entrepreneurial activity. It is clear that South...
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Tests of Machine Intelligence
December 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
Despite solid progress on many fronts over the last 50 years, artificial intelligence is still a very young field with many of its greatest achievements, and some of its most fundamental problems,...
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Towards a Low-Complexity Dynamic Decode-and-Forward Relay Protocol
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The dynamic DecoDe-and-Forward (DDF) relaying protocol is a relatively new cooperative scheme which has been shown to achieve promising theoretical results in terms of diversity-multiplexing gain...
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A New Local Distance-Based Outlier Detection Approach for Scattered Real-World Data
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Detecting outliers which are grossly different from or inconsistent with the remaining dataset is a major challenge in real-world KDD applications. Existing outlier detection methods are...
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Approximating Monetary Policy: Case Study For The ASEAN-5
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Empirical studies on the process of monetary policy making in a number of advanced economies have shown that a simple Policy Reaction Function (PRF) performs well in explaining the setting of...
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Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Second-Order Systems With Applications to Power Networks
December 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Observers for distributed fault detection of interconnected second-order linear time invariant systems are studied. Particularly, networked systems under consensus protocols are considered and it...
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Multi Sensor Information Fusion: Distributed Agents-Based Paradigm
April 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a distributed agent-based paradigm for hybrid (soft and hard) computation involved in multisensor information (data) fusion. The computations are interpreted as the outcome...
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Global Democracy: In The Beginning
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Talk about global democracy seems to be fixated on a Reform-Act model of democracy, with 'One person one vote for all affected by the decisions' as for example in a second popularly-apportioned...
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Global Production Sharing And US-China Trade Relations
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines US-China trade relations, focusing on the ongoing process of global production sharing global production sharing - the breakup of the production processes into geographically...
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The Global Financial Crisis And Short-run Prospects For India
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an overview of the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on the Indian economy. It identifies the channels through which the GFC has impacted the Indian economy and...
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Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns And Determinants Of Trade Flows
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the extent and pattern of global production sharing, focusing on East Asia, and probes its implications for the analysis of the determinants of trade flows. Reflecting rapid...
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East Asian Exports In The Global Economic Crisis: The Decoupling Fallacy And Post-crisis Policy Challenges
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the export experience of East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis against the backdrop of pre-crisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by...
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The New Global Crisis Makers: Economic Intervention And The Loss Of Strategic Leadership
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The "Crisis exaggerators" are telling us that current economic conditions amount to an "Unprecedented" global economic recession. This is historically incorrect. What is unprecedented is the...
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China's Integration Into Global Production Networks And Its Implications For Export-Led Growth Strategy In Other Countries In The Region
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the implications of China's rapid integration into global production networks for export performance of countries in Southeast Asia. In a clear departure from the conventional...
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Global Implications Of Japanese Economic Stagnation
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Despite its key contribution to global economic growth through the 1960s and 1970s, in recent decades the rise of China has seen the importance of Japan recede from the public discourse. This is...
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Indonesian Growth Dynamics
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an analytical narrative of Indonesian economic growth over the past two decades. Particular attention is paid to the key economic crisis events of 1997-98 and 2008-09, and how...
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Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital And Growth
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the partial effects of institutions and human capital on growth. They find that cross-country regressions of the log-level of per capita GDP on instrumented measures of...
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Total Factor Productivity And Economic Growth In Indonesia
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia's economic growth during 1970-2007. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to...
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The Role Of Energy In Economic Growth
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays...
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Economic Growth, Law And Corruption: Evidence From India
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Is corruption influenced by economic growth? Are legal institutions such as the "Right to Information Act (RTI) 2005" in India effective in curbing corruption? Using a novel panel dataset covering...
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Economic Growth And Political Survival
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Using data for 160 countries for the period 1963-2001, this paper examines the short-run relationship between economic growth and changes in national leader. To address the potential endogeneity...
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Tariff-growth Nexus In The Australian Economy, 1870-2002: Is There A Paradox?
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between tariff and growth in the Australian economy over the period from 1871 to 2002. The paper is motivated by the debate on the apparent 'Tariff-growth...
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Coalitions And Consequences: Learnership And Leadership In India, 1948-2008
August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper attempts to explore a missing aspect of the large literature that has grown up around coalition governments in India and then to include that aspect in a discussion of the consequences...
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Inflation Variability And The Relationship Between Inflation And Growth
April 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the effect of inflation variability and economic growth using annual historical data on both developing and developed countries. The data cover 182 developing countries and 31...
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Globalisation And Labour Markets In Boom And Crisis: The Case Of Vietnam
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the Vietnam labour market against the backdrop of economic performance and labour dynamics before the crisis. The impact on labour...
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Aggregate And Sectoral Productivity Growth In Thailand And Indonesia
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Total factor productivity growth is studied in this paper for two countries, Thailand and Indonesia, from 1980 to 2006. The analysis is conducted at both the aggregate and sectoral levels. A...
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Globalization Of R&D By US-Based Multinational Enterprises
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines patterns and determinants of overseas R&D investment by US-based manufacturing MNEs using a new panel dataset over the period 1990-2004. The analysis reveals that R&D intensity...
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Manufacturing Growth, Trade And Labour Market Outcomes In East Asia: Why Did The NIEs Forge So Far Ahead?
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to explain different real wage outcomes in two groups of East Asian economies: two New Industrialising Economies (NIEs: Korea and Taiwan), and three Southeast Asian economies...
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Poverty Reduction Through Long-Term Growth: The Thai Experience
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Thailand's impressive long-term rate of economic growth has resulted mainly from accumulation of physical capital. Significant total factor productivity growth can be identified at an aggregate...
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Criminal Investigation: Is There A Skills Gap In Leadership, Management And Supervision?
November 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is no silver bullet for improving the supervision, management and leadership of criminal investigations. The evidence base is too small to allow for the problem to be defined with any...
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Cloud Computing and Online Search and Advertising Markets: Obstacles to Competition
July 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates obstacles to competition in the online advertising and search markets in Australia in the context of developments in cloud computing. It complements an earlier working...
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American And European Financial Shocks: Implications For Chinese Economic Performance
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With exports almost half of its GDP and most of these directed to Europe and North America, negative financial shocks in those regions might be expected to retard China's growth. Yet mitigating...
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A Capital Mistake-The Neglected Effect Of Immigration On Average Wages
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Much recent literature on the wage effects of immigration assumes that the return to capital, and therefore the average wage, is unaffected in the long run. If immigration is modelled as a...
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Financial Intermediation And The International Business Cycle: The Case Of Small Countries With Big Banks
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the transmission mechanism of banking sector shocks in a two-country DSGE model. Assuming that the home country is small relative to the rest of world, they find that...
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Does The Size And Quality Of The Government Explain The Size And Efficiency Of The Financial Sector?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of two dimensions of the government, namely, size and quality, on two dimensions of the financial sector, size and efficiency, in a cross section of 71 economies....
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Financial Contagion And The Real Economy
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The global financial crisis of 2008 was a crisis affecting both the financial sector and the "Real economy". This paper analyzes the transmission of unexpected shocks from the financial sector in...
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DSTBC Based DF Cooperative Networks in the Presence of Timing and Frequency Offsets
April 19, 2013, 12:00am PDT
In Decode-and-Forward (DF) relaying networks, the received signal at the destination may be affected by multiple impairments such as multiple channel gains, Multiple Timing Offsets (MTOs), and...
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Centralized and Cooperative Transmission of Secure Multiple Unicasts Using Network Coding
May 7, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a method for securely delivering a set of messages to a group of clients over a broadcast erasure channel where each client is interested in a distinct message. Each client...
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Impact of Channel Estimation Error on Secure Transmission Design
December 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the secure transmission design with practical assumptions on the Channel State Information (CSI). Specifically, the CSI of the legitimate link is imperfectly...
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On the Physical Layer Security in Large Scale Cellular Networks
January 20, 2013, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy performance in large-scale cellular networks based on a stochastic geometry framework. The locations of both base stations and the mobile users...
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Outage Probability of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Cooperative Relaying
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyze the performance of cooperative transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks with random node locations. According to a contention probability for message...
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Root Optimization of Polynomials in the Number Field Sieve
December 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
The general number field sieve is the most efficient algorithm known for factoring large integers. It consists of several stages including polynomial selection, sieving, filtering, linear algebra...
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Tracking Large-Scale Video Remix in Real-World Events
October 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Social information networks, such as YouTube, contains traces of both explicit online interaction (such as like, leaving a comment, or subscribing to video feed), and latent interactions (such as...
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Effective Link Operation Duration: A New Routing Metric for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
July 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The dynamic topology of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is caused by node mobility and fading of the wireless link. Link reliability is often measured by the estimated lifetime and the stability...
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Runtime Verification of Cryptographic Protocols
November 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
There has been a significant amount of work devoted to the static verification of security protocol designs. Virtually all of these results, when applied to an actual implementation of a security...
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Run-Time Security Traceability for Evolving Systems
September 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Security-critical systems are challenging to design and implement correctly and securely. A lot of vulnerabilities have been found in current software systems both at the specification and the...
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Privacy Concerns of Users for Location-Based Mobile Personalization
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the proliferation of mobile technologies many firms have started using the mobile channel to advertise their products. To reduce the amount of irrelevant broadcast, location-based mobile...
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Temporal Consistency Among Five-Sensory Events: Application to Multimedia Technology
November 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
While transmitting multi or five-sensory information after transduction, the concept of temporal consistency becomes an important issue at the receiving end from the point of view of context. Any...
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Combined Rate and Power Allocation With Link Scheduling in Wireless Data Packet Relay Networks With Fading Channels
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a joint rate and power control problem in a wireless data traffic relay network with fading channels. The optimization problem is formulated in terms of power and rate...
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Secrecy Transmission Capacity of Decentralized Wireless Networks
June 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Secure communication over large-scale decentralized wireless networks is an extremely challenging task due to the cost and difficulty in establishing secret keys among all the nodes in a...
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Fiscal Policies And Challenges In South Asia
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a brief overview of the extant fiscal situation in South Asian countries. In particular, the author emphasizes low tax/GDP ratios and inelastic expenditure/GDP ratios which...
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Cloud Computing Online Search, and Advertising: Market Overview
July 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is one of a series planned on the regulation of cloud computing and developments in online search and advertising. This paper thus provides an overview of the online search and...
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On the Connectivity Properties of Wireless Multi-Hop Networks
February 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
Connectivity is one of the fundamental properties in wireless multi-hop networks (e.g., wireless sensor/ad hoc network), and is also a prerequisite for providing many network functions. A question...
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On the Giant Component in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks
August 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A wireless multi-hop network, e.g. wireless ad hoc/sensor network, usually consists of a number of decentralized and self-organized nodes that communicate with each other over wireless channels,...
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Cooperative Routing for Wireless Networks With Multiple Shared Channels
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Transmission links in wireless networks suffer from independent channel fading. Cooperative routing technology with diversity transmission can exploit the randomness of the wireless channel and...
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On Uplink Interference Scenarios in Two-Tier Macro and Femto Co-Existing UMTS Networks
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a two-tier UMTS network is considered where a large number of randomly deployed Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) femtocells are laid under macrocells where the...
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Performance of Piconet Co-Existence Schemes in Wireless Body Area Networks
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Coexistence of multiple Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is a very challenging problem because each piconet can have a large number of sensors and their movement is unpredictable. Moreover,...
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Incomplete Markets, Small Open Economy Monetary Policy And Equilibrium Determinacy
December 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose an alternative and simple small open economy model with incomplete international asset markets. Asset market incompleteness breaks the "Monetary-policy isomorphism" between the...
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Increasing Returns, Financial Capital Mobility And Real Exchange Rate Dynamics
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The late 1990s saw a US IT investment boom, large capital flows into the US and an appreciation of the US$. At the time, this appeared to be driven by expectations of continued IT-related...
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Relative Risk Aversion And The Transmission Of Financial Crises
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors study how investor behaviour affects the transmission of financial crises. If investors exhibit decreasing relative risk aversion, then negative wealth shocks increase the risk premium...
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Finance And Inequality: The Case Of India
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although theory emphasizes the role of financial market frictions in explaining income inequality, there is little empirical research exploring how financial development and financial sector...
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Financial Frictions And Credit Spreads
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses the credit-friction model developed by Curdia and Woodford, in a series of papers, as the basis for attempting to mimic the behavior of credit spreads in moderate as well as in...
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Financial Performance Of Small Business Loans: Indirect Evidence
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using nationwide U.S. bank-level data from 2003-2007, this paper explores multiple dimensions of the financial performance of small business loans by means of statistical decompositions. The...
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News And Expectations In Financial Markets: An Experimental Study
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider an experimental setting where traders in stock markets or exchange rate markets receive one stylized piece of information at a time about the value of an asset. They find that...
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Financial Instability Prevention
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper attempts to assess to what extent the central bank or the government should respond to developments that cause financial instability, such as housing or asset bubbles, overextended...
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Modelling The Global Financial Crisis
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper models the global financial crisis as a combination of shocks to global housing markets and sharp increases in risk premia of firms, households and international investors in an...
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Fiscal Policy, Composition Of Intergenerational Transfers, And Income Distribution
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors characterize the relationship between the initial distribution of human capital and physical inheritances among individuals and the long-run distribution of these two...
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Fiscal Policy With Intertemporally Non-Separable Preferences
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors show that Ricardian equivalence does not hold in a representative agent framework if one considers goods whose current consumption affect future marginal utilities. They...
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Financial Contagion And The Real Economy
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The global financial crisis of 2008 was a crisis affecting both the financial sector and the "Real economy". This paper analyzes the transmission of unexpected shocks from the financial sector in...
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Does The Size And Quality Of The Government Explain The Size And Efficiency Of The Financial Sector?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of two dimensions of the government, namely, size and quality, on two dimensions of the financial sector, size and efficiency, in a cross section of 71 economies....
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Financial Intermediation And The International Business Cycle: The Case Of Small Countries With Big Banks
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the transmission mechanism of banking sector shocks in a two-country DSGE model. Assuming that the home country is small relative to the rest of world, they find that...
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A Capital Mistake-The Neglected Effect Of Immigration On Average Wages
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Much recent literature on the wage effects of immigration assumes that the return to capital, and therefore the average wage, is unaffected in the long run. If immigration is modelled as a...
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American And European Financial Shocks: Implications For Chinese Economic Performance
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With exports almost half of its GDP and most of these directed to Europe and North America, negative financial shocks in those regions might be expected to retard China's growth. Yet mitigating...
Provided by Australian National University
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Cloud Computing and Online Search and Advertising Markets: Obstacles to Competition
July 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates obstacles to competition in the online advertising and search markets in Australia in the context of developments in cloud computing. It complements an earlier working...
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Criminal Investigation: Is There A Skills Gap In Leadership, Management And Supervision?
November 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is no silver bullet for improving the supervision, management and leadership of criminal investigations. The evidence base is too small to allow for the problem to be defined with any...
Provided by Australian National University
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Poverty Reduction Through Long-Term Growth: The Thai Experience
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Thailand's impressive long-term rate of economic growth has resulted mainly from accumulation of physical capital. Significant total factor productivity growth can be identified at an aggregate...
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