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Towards Optimised Retransmission Reservation in Real-Time Wireless TDMA
June 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Providing real-time guarantees in wireless networks requires the reservation of transmission time not only for transmissions but also for retransmissions. Retransmissions are required to ensure...
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Protecting Confidential Files Using SE-Linux
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A mandatory access control system, such as SE-Linux, is able to protect a computer system containing files and confidential data. Is not an easy task to manage a system protected with SE-Linux as...
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Distributed CBR Using XML
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
CBR (Case-Based Reasoning) has considerable potential for developing intelligent assistants for the World Wide Web. Several case-based intelligent applications already exist on the web but these...
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UMBRELLA.net : Exploring Coincidence Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
UMBRELLA.net is an experimental platform for developing ad-hoc networks based around coincidence or chance occurrences. The project utilizes the haphazard and unpredictable patterns of weather and...
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Securely Replicated Web Documents
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In order to achieve better scalability and reduce latency in handling user requests, many Web applications make extensive use of data replication through caches and Content Delivery Networks....
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Design of Feeder Route Network Using Combined Genetic Algorithm and Specialized Repair Heuristic
September 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In metropolitan cities an efficient integrated public transportation system is unavoidable to restrict unsustainable growth of private and intermediate transport modes. Well-designed feeder routes...
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Dynamic Interpretation for Dynamic Scripting Languages
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic scripting languages offer programmers increased flexibility by allowing properties of programs to be defined at run-time. Typically, program execution begins with an interpreter where type...
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Global Funding Liquidity, Equity Returns And Crash Risk: Implications For Monetary Policy
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Monetary policy loosening and the associated impact on credit availability may have played a role in the present financial crisis. If such liquidity risk exists and is undiversifiable, then loose...
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Disasters And Development: Natural Disasters, Credit Constraints And Economic Growth
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate, using a simple two-period equilibrium model of the economy, the potential effects of extreme event occurrences - such as natural or humanitarian disasters - on economic...
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Robust Global Stock Market Interdependencies
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the...
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International Risk Sharing And The Irish Economy
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies international risk sharing in Ireland focusing on the 1970-2007 period. To this end, the authors assess how consumption and national income have been affected by idiosyncratic...
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International Asset Holdings And The Euro
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The establishment of a monetary union in Europe in 1999 has eliminated exchange rate risk within the euro area and has led to a more unified financial framework. It has been established in the...
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Royale With Cheese: The Effect Of Globalization On The Variety Of Goods
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The key result of the so-called "New Trade Theory" is that countries gain from falling trade costs by an increase in the number of varieties available to consumers. Though the number of varieties...
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Innovation And Financial Globalisation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the links between international financial integration and the level of innovation activity. If financial globalisation boosts innovation, this helps to explain the empirical...
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The Irish Pharmaceutical Industry Over The Boom Period And Beyond
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The pharmaceutical industry has been one of the strongest performing sectors of the Celtic Tiger era. During the past two decades, employment growth in the sector has been strong and continuous,...
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Open International Markets Without Exclusion: Encompassing Domestic Institutions, Excludable Goods, And International Public Goods
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper uses the concept of the 'Encompassing group' to set out a collective action theory based explanation for the maintenance of open international markets to add to existing explanations...
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International Financial Integration And Consumption Risk Sharing
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper tests the importance of international financial assets and liabilities for consumption risk sharing in a general framework which allows for separate effects of equity and debt holdings...
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The Drivers Of Financial Globalization
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors provide a brief review and analysis of recent trends in international financial integration. In particular, they highlight the asymmetric nature of financial globalization, with the...
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Some Lessons For Fiscal Policy From The Financial Crisis
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The current crisis calls for a re-assessment of the optimal conduct of macroeconomic policies during non-crisis normal times. In particular, the risk and costs of crises can be mitigated by...
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Financial Regulation In A Changing World: Lessons From The Recent Crisis
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current crisis is leading many to re-think the role of finance and how it should be regulated. Yet many features of this crisis are decidedly not new. This paper reviews what was regarded as...
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Emerging Markets Capital Structure And Financial Integration
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the impact of international financial integration on corporate financing choices, at a country level. Examining publically quoted firms of 24 emerging economies over the...
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Financial Reforms And Capital Flows To Emerging Europe
January 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
Analysis of 21 emerging European economies reveals a substantial role for domestic financial reforms in attracting net capital flows. Controlling for standard determinants of capital flows, the...
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EMU And Financial Integration
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors assess the impact of the euro on financial integration. They document how the single currency has re-shaped financial markets and international investment patterns. They address the...
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The Macroeconomics Of Financial Integration: A European Perspective
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the macroeconomics of international financial integration from a European perspective. The authors first analyze the role of international financial integration in promoting...
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EMU And Financial Market Integration
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The introduction of the euro had a swift and quantititatively-large impact on the financial markets of the euro area. While the 2007-2008 international financial crises have re-awakened interest...
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Indicators Of Regional Financial Integration
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper provides for a review of quantity-based and price-based indicators of regional financial integration. These measures should be easy to construct and interpret, based on publicly...
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Spatial Linkages In International Financial Markets
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Spatial dependency has been broadly studied in several research areas, such as environmental criminology, economic geography, environmental sciences, and urban economics. However, it has been...
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Mining the Web for the Voice of the Herd to Track Stock Market Bubbles
April 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors show that power-law analyses of financial commentaries from newspaper web-sites can be used to identify stock market bubbles, supplementing traditional volatility analyses. Using a...
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StratusLab Cloud Distribution
March 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud technologies provide many benefits for scientific and engineering applications, such as customised execution environments, near-instantaneous provisioning, elasticity, and the ability to run...
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The Role Of Fundamental Q And Financing Frictions In Agricultural Investment Decisions: An Analysis Pre And Post Financial Crisis
February 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a fundamental Q model of investment to consider the role played by financing frictions in agricultural investment decisions, controlling econometrically for censoring,...
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Optimising Data Movement Rates for Parallel Processing Applications on Graphics Processors
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Graphics Processing Units(GPUs) are starting to play an increasingly important role in non-graphical applications which are highly parallelisable. With the latest graphics cards boasting a...
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External Imbalances And Macroeconomic Policy In New Zealand
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper has emphasized that New Zealand's external imbalances should influence the design and conduct of its macroeconomic policies. In terms of growth performance, excessive external deficits...
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Corporation Tax: How Important Is The 12.5 % Corporate Tax Rate In Ireland?
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There has been considerable recent controversy and complaints about the corporate tax rate in Ireland. For example that it is an unfair 'Beggar thy neighbour' type policy; that it induces tax...
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Economic Integration And The Optimal Corporate Tax Structure With Heterogeneous Firms
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. They show that it is optimal for the small country's...
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The Informationalization Of Poverty In Africa? Information And Communication Technologies And Economic Structure
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The failure of neoliberalism in Africa led to its revinvention through the use of a variety of concepts such as governance and social capital over the last number of decades (Carmody, 2007). This...
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External Adjustment And The Global Crisis
August 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The period preceding the global financial crisis was characterized by a substantial widening of current account imbalances across the world. Since the onset of the crisis, these imbalances have...
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After The Party's Over: The Irish Employment Model And The Paradoxes Of Non-Learning
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Until 2008 Ireland was the poster boy of neo-liberal politicians. With its economic growth for over two decades at times reaching Asian proportions, the so-called Celtic Tiger apparently...
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Bilateral Portfolio Dynamics During The Global Financial Crisis
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There has been considerable bilateral variation in the pattern of portfolio capital flows during the global financial crisis: for a given destination, investors from different countries adjusted...
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A Tale Of Two Trilemmas
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In a classic book and subsequent articles, Obstfeld and Taylor (2004) have shown how the broad contours of international financial history over the past century and a half can be well understood...
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The Effect Of Decoupled Direct Payments On Farm Exit Behaviour: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Europe
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As a consequence of the recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy the agricultural sector throughout the EU is undergoing a process of major structural change. The removal of direct payments...
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StratusLab Cloud Distribution
March 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud technologies provide many benefits for scientific and engineering applications, such as customised execution environments, near-instantaneous provisioning, elasticity, and the ability to run...
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Mining the Web for the Voice of the Herd to Track Stock Market Bubbles
April 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors show that power-law analyses of financial commentaries from newspaper web-sites can be used to identify stock market bubbles, supplementing traditional volatility analyses. Using a...
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Improving Throughput and Node Proximity of P2P Live Video Streaming Through Overlay Adaptation
September 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Due to the heterogeneity of the environment, in which hosts may have different bandwidth capacities and network distances between hosts vary, current mesh-based multicast protocols for video...
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Tree-Based Analysis of Mesh Overlays for Peer-to-Peer Streaming
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mesh-based P2P streaming approaches have been recently proposed as an interesting alternative to tree-based approaches. However, many properties of mesh overlays remain little understood as they...
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State Visibility and Communication in Unifying Theories of Programming
May 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore the interactions between program-variable state visibility and communication behaviour in state-rich CSP-like processes, using the Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP)...
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Uniqueness Typing Simplified
February 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present a uniqueness type system that is simpler than both Clean's uniqueness system and a system they proposed previously. The new type system is straightforward to implement and add...
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Federated Autonomic Management of HAN Services
January 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
Management of a heterogeneous "Outer edge" network where a Home Area Network (HAN) inter-operates with external network and service providers is complex and error prone. Configuration of a HAN is...
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Fault Recovery and Redundancy in Real-Time Wireless TDMA
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to address the issue of message delivery reliability in real-time, wireless communication systems. The authors discuss the provision of a probabilistic admissions control protocol...
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A Gossip Protocol to Support Service Discovery With Heterogeneous Ontologies in MANETs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Service discovery in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is an integral part for collective application interoperability. The discovery process must cope not only with transient communication but also...
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Aspect-Oriented Model-Driven Development for Mobile Context-Aware Computing
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The development of applications for pervasive computing presents a number of challenges to the software engineer. In particular, application adaptation based on context such as environmental...
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Local Estimators for 802.11 MAC Channel Quality
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors extend two approaches for estimating the proportions of frame losses at an 802.11 station due to collisions and other errors, in order to distinguish errors due to channel noise and...
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Complexity Attack Resistant Flow Lookup Schemes for IPv6: A Measurement Based Comparison
December 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors look at the problem of choosing a good flow state lookup scheme for IPv6 firewalls. They want to choose a scheme which is fast when dealing with typical traffic, but...
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The Anatomy Of Large Valuation Episodes
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the anatomy of large valuation episodes giving special attention to the role of the increase in the degree of international financial integration experienced by most countries...
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Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension Of Firm Dynamics In Developing Countries
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, the authors ask whether the delineation of entry...
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Should Bank Supervisors In Developing Countries Exercise More Or Less Forbearance?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Although forbearance has been associated with more costly financial crises, a trigger-happy approach to closing weak banks could also precipitate an avoidable systemic collapse. In sophisticated...
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Globalization, 1870-1914
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The period from 1870 to 1914 represented the high water mark of 19th century globalization, which, as Chapter 1.4 showed, had been developing since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This paper will...
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Optimal Quota For Sector-Specific Immigration
June 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, the authors derive a general equilibrium...
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Why Do Member States Offer A 'Constitutional' Obedience To EU Obligations? Encompassing Domestic Institutions And Costly International Obligations
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The member states of the European Union obey the obligations of the European treaties in a manner resembling states or provinces under a federal constitution. Existing explanations for this...
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Risk Management And The Costs Of The Banking Crisis
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The 2007-8 banking crisis in the advanced economies has exposed deficiencies in risk management and prudential regulation approaches that rely too heavily on mechanical, albeit sophisticated, risk...
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Bank Failures: The Limitations Of Risk Modelling
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues that overconfidence on the part of bankers and regulators in mechanical risk management models is an important and distinctive driver of bank failures in the current crisis....
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Luddites And The Demographic Transition
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. The authors develop a model...
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Political Institutions, Voter Turnout And Policy Outcomes
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors question whether the impact of constitutions on economic outcomes (Persson and Tabellini, 2004) is direct. They show that voter turnout is a channel through which forms of government...
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An Empirical Study Of Multiple Listings
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the multiple listing phenomena by studying the characteristics of the hosting and listing countries and listing firms of the multiple-listed stocks. The authors document the...
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State Reputation As A Public Good
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A state's concern for its reputation is widely considered the most powerful mechanism for inducing rational egoist states to comply with costly commitments. A state with a diversity of interests...
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Tax Competition In An Expanding European Union
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, the authors use a simple model of tax competition to determine how a given...
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Flexigemony And Force In China's Geoeconomic Strategy In Africa: Sudan And Zambia Compared
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Chinese government and its companies have dramatically increased their presence in Africa in the last decade. There has been much media interest and commentary on the impacts of China on...
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A New Socio-Economy In Africa? Thintegration And The Mobile Phone Revolution
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Much has been written about the impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Africa and its transformational socio-economic potential. The penetration of mobile phones in...
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The Determinants Of Carry Trade Risk Premia
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper tests a novel explanation for excess returns to the carry trade, namely, that investors are rewarded for exposure to equity risk of the target country. This risk factor is motivated via...
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Fiscal Shocks And Real Wages
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author estimates the short-run dynamic effect of fiscal shocks on real wages for a panel of euro area countries. The main findings are in line with the Neo-Keynesian predictions that real...
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Learning Right And Learning From The Left: Diffusion Of Corporate Tax Policy In The OECD
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is an increased focus in comparative politics and international relations on how choices of national governments are dependent on choices made by governments in other countries. The authors...
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Postcolonial Ireland And Zimbabwe: Stagnation Before Convergence
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the slow and hesitant integration of two postcolonial economies into the global economy. One is Ireland, whose independence began in 1921, but which only found its place...
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Politics And Fiscal Policy Under Lemass: A Theoretical Appraisal
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Lemass rejected Whitaker's recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because...
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Balancing Competimg Demands: Position-Taking And Election Proximity In The European Parliament
July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party. For Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are...
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Investigating The Determinants Of Banking Coexceeddances In Europe In The Summer Of 2008
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the nature, extent and possible causes of bank contagion in a high frequency setting. Looking at six major European banks in the summer and autumn of 2008, they model the lower...
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Safe And Sound Banking: A Role For Countercyclical Regulatory Requirements?
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Most explanations of the crisis of 2007-2009 emphasize the role of the preceding boom in real estate and asset markets in a variety of advanced countries. As a result, an idea that is gaining...
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Do Migrants Improve Governance At Home? Evidence From A Voting Experiment
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this...
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External Imbalances And Fiscal Policy
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The goal of this paper is to consider the role of fiscal policy in the determination and resolution of external imbalances. The authors' primary focus is on individual member countries of the euro...
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A New Fiscal Framework For Ireland
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Pro-cyclicality in Irish fiscal policy has contributed to macroeconomic volatility over recent decades. Accordingly, this paper seeks to identify institutional mechanisms that can improve the...
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Breaking The Sterling Link: Ireland's Decision To Enter The EMS
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ireland had been considering a break in the long-standing currency link with sterling for some time when the ideal opportunity of a new exchange rate regime - potentially retaining the sterling...
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Discrimination, Exclusion And Immigrants' Confidence In Public Institutions In Europe
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
What determines the confidence of immigrants in public institutions? Using pooled data from the European Social Survey from 26 countries, the paper examines whether processes of social exclusion...
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