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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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Firm Performance Characteristics And Gender Ownership In A Globalised Economy
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper extends existing research on firm heterogeneity by exploring whether differences in firm performance characteristics may in part be related to the gender of the proprietor of the firm....
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Tracking Global Corporate Citizenship: Some Reflections On 'Lovesick' Companies
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper provides an outline of some of the issues the author dealing with in connection to a research project being undertaken on Global Corporate Citizenship (GCC). This paper is in its early...
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The Costs Of Risk: Examining The Missing Link Between Globalization And Social Spending
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Globalization is often credited with the expansion of the welfare state and increased spending on social insurance programs. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between globalization...
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The Impact Of Globalisation And Trade On Productivity Performance Of The Irish Food Manufacturing Sector
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Globalisation and international integration can yield efficiency gains through the promotion of competition and trade in markets for internationally traded goods. At the firm level, exposure to...
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Structural Weakness In Nicaragua: Hindrances To Economic Growth And Poverty Reduction
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite generous debt reduction under the HIPC initiative, Nicaragua is not growing at the rate required to alleviate poverty. This paper outlines Nicaragua's vulnerability to external changes and...
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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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Modelling The Longitudinal Properties Of Financial Ratios Of European Firms
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The use of financial ratios by analysts to compare the performance of firms from one accounting period to the next is of growing importance with continued European economic integration. Recent...
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The Predictive Content Of Financial Variables: Evidence From The Euro Area
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the predictive ability of financial variables for real growth in the euro area through bivariate and multivariate non-parametric Granger causality tests. Apart from...
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The International Financial Intregration Of China And India
August 15, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with...
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Improving ICE Service Selection in a P2P System Using the Gradient Topology
April 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Internet Connectivity Establishment (ICE) is becoming increasingly important for P2P systems on the open Internet, as it enables NAT-bound peers to provide accessible services. A problem for P2P...
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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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Do Fiscal Rules Cause Budgetary Outcomes?
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on the observed empirical relationship between fiscal rules and budget deficits, and examines whether this correlation is driven by an omitted variable, namely voter...
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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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Towards Improving the Availability of Service Compositions
February 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
The proliferation of open Internet-scale service-oriented platforms based on standards, such as WSDL, SOAP and BPEL, enables the composition of independent web services into new value-added...
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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 Redefined
February 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors modify Clean's uniqueness type system in two ways. First, while Clean functions that are partially applied to a unique argument are necessarily unique (they cannot lose their...
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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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Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access Using SS-MC-CDMA
April 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The demand for frequency spectrum and diversity of wireless devices accessing this spectrum depends upon the time of day, the characteristics of a frequency band, and the geographical location of...
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Exploring the Reconfigurability Options of Multi-Carrier CDMA in Cognitive Radio Systems
March 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multi-carrier spectrum access techniques including Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) and Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) offer a number of significant advantages...
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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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Real-Time Communication in IEEE 802.11 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks A Feasibility Study
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Achieving predictable communication latency in an ad hoc IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network necessitates an approach that overcomes the impact of the underlying non-deterministic...
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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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Measuring the Benefits of Mobile Number Portability
July 27, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Increasing numbers of countries require mobile telephone networks to offer Mobile Number Portability (MNP). MNP allows customers who wish to switch mobile operator to keep their mobile numbers,...
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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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Impact Of Policy Reforms On Agriculture And Poverty In Uganda
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews the recent economic performance of the Ugandan economy, with a particular emphasis on the impact of the reform program on agricultural development and poverty. The constituent...
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Coordinating Aid For Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience Of Central Asia
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
For the Central Asian countries the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to economic disintegration as old coordination mechanisms disappeared and new national borders appeared. This paper analyzes...
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Evaluating The Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using A Difference-In-Differences Matching Approach
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. The authors'...
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International Portfolio Diversification And Market Linkages In The Presence Of Regime-Switching Volatility
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine if the benefits of international portfolio diversification are robust to time-varying asset return volatility. Since diversified portfolios are subject to common cross-country...
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Flying Around The Globe And Bringing Business Back Home?
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
For many managers and professionals today, to work is to travel. Business travel is now so interwoven with doing business that its apparent continued growth is a matter of common sense. Yet...
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Shift Versus Traditional Contagion In Asian Markets
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors test for shift contagion between pairs of East Asian equity markets over a sample including the financial crisis of the 1990's. Employing the methodology of Gravelle et al. (2006),...
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Social Discounting Under Uncertainty: A Cross-Country Comparison
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Recent research suggests that social cost-benefit analysis should be con-ducted with a declining discount rate. For instance, Newell and Pizer show that the U.S. certainty-equivalent discount rate...
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Fear Of Floating And The External Effects Of Currency Unions
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The introduction of the Euro has considerably affected the de facto monetary policy autonomy - defined as statistical independence from monetary policy in the key currency areas - in countries...
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The Shifting Composition Of External Liabilities
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
What determines the composition of external liabilities, both across countries and over time? More specifically, which countries account for the massive increase in equity-like liabilities...
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Preferences For Immigration Restriction And Opinions About Immigrants' Economic Impacts- Evidence From The European Union Before The 2004 Expansion
January 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the importance of citizens' opinions about economic impacts of immigration in their countries to their preferences for immigration restriction. They focus on personal views...
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Determinants Of Poverty Vulnerability In Uganda
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Ugandan data shows poverty to be entrenched in rural areas and in large households. Households with heads exposed to education, an improved health status, less reliance on agriculture as the most...
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Flatliners: Ideology And Rational Learning In The Diffusion Of The Flat Tax
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors hope to have demonstrated that, when it comes to extraordinary politics, economic forces - either domestic or international - do not seem to be sufficient to get reform off the ground....
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Tax Competition For Heterogeneous Firms With Endogenous Entry: The Case Of Heterogeneous Fixed Costs
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper models tax competition for mobile firms that are differentiated by the amount of labor needed to cover fixed costs. Because tax competition affects the distribution of firms, it affects...
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The Diversification Discount Puzzle: Empirical Evidence For A Transactions Cost Resolution
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Prior literature on the diversification discount and the relative efficiency of internal versus external capital markets provides decidedly mixed results. The authors argue that transactions cost...
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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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