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Job Scheduling on the Grid: Towards SLA-Based Scheduling
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper argues for the need to provide more flexibility in the level of service offered by Grid-enable high-performance, parallel, supercomputing resources. It is envisaged that such need could...
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Personal Journal Writing and Collaboration Tools to Assist Doctor of Practical Theology (DPT) Students
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Doctor of Practical Theology (DPT) 1 is a practice-based research degree aimed at professionals from a range of contexts and institutions across the public, private and voluntary sectors. The...
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Assessing the Potential for Mobile Payments in Africa: Approaches and Evidence from Uganda
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an evaluative framework that assesses the potential for mobile device-based payments (m-payments) in Africa. The framework is developed according to an analysis of the...
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Mobile Payment Emerging BusinessMobile Phones and Financial Services in Developing Countries: A Review of Concepts, Methods, Issues, Evidence and Future Research Directions Model Scenarios: Industry Stakeholder Survey Results
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Research concerning mobile phones and financial services in developing countries has undergone rapid growth in recent years. This paper seeks to improve understanding of this expanding research...
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The process Of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation and Business Process Re-Engineering
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using an innovative process model, authors describe and analyse the process of introducing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in two Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises and...
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The OWL API: A Java API for Working With OWL 2 Ontologies
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the OWL API a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL 2 ontology's. The API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It...
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Establishing Multi-level Security in Mobile Data Access
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Transaction processing over mobile networks faces new challenges due to limitations in bandwidth and available power, as well as due to intermittent connectivity that causes loss of data and...
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Supporting IPv6 Interaction With Wireless Sensor Networks Using NP++
April 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is growing interest in exploiting standard Internet protocols such as IPv6 in wireless sensor networks. Support for IPv6 has the potential to facilitate application development, increase the...
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Towards Higher-Order Virtualization for Chip Multiprocessor Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Parallelization and virtualization are rapidly becoming standard techniques on commodity platforms. The apparent trend is likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Indeed, there is significant...
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Tax-Deductible Pre-Event Catastrophe Loss Reserves: The Case Of Florida
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
After Hurricane Andrew the U.S. Congress entertained proposals to allow insurers to employ tax-deferred loss reserves. Interest was strong at first, but as the events receded interest waned. After...
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Earnings Reporting And Analysts' Earnings Forecasts: The Perceptions Of UK Analysts And Financial Managers
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper contains the findings from exploratory interviews of a small number of investment professionals and financial managers. In addition it reports the results of a small scale survey of...
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Modelling International Stock Market Contagion Using Copula And Risk Appetite
October 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The risk appetite indices have also successfully captured five other extreme events in the last decade, including two terrorist attacks, corporate scandal in the U.S., LCTM default and the...
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Out Of Sight: Problem Sequences And Epistemic Boundaries Of Medical Know-How On Glaucoma
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. The study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first the authors...
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Defense Procurement, Innovation And The National Innovation System
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper is about the implications of a nation's approach to defense procurement for its national innovation system and the innovation that occurs within it. Defense procurement involves choices...
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Policies For Science, Technology And Innovation: Translating Rationales Into Regional Policies In A Multi-Level Setting
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Departing from a number of theoretical perspectives from which rationales for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy can be extracted, this paper discusses three questions. First, what...
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Demand-Based Innovation Policy
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system...
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IT Outsourcing In Higher Education Institutions
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could sustain their service requirements while remaining effective and competitive....
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Internationalization Of Services: The Evolutionary Perspective
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of an open market economy. This is neither a recent nor passing phenomena, but a development trajectory along...
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Comparing The Scientific Quality Achieved By Funding Instruments For Single Grant Holders And For Collaborative Networks Within A Research System: Some Observations
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence...
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Technological Revolutions And The Evolution Of Industrial Structures. Assessing The Impact Of New Technologies On Size, Pattern Of Growth And Boundaries Of The Firms
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this work the authors discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive...
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Control Of Relational Risk In Offshore Accounting And Finance Outsourcing: Case Evidence From UK And India
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments in information technology and outsourcing parts of the accounting process to vendors in other parts of the world....
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Chinese Public Finance Framework: A Critical Analysis
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the complexities of government financial management in China and examines the nature of the recent Public Finance Framework reform in that country. The authors argue that this...
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Rural Sector Reform And Internet Adoption In NGOs: The Case Of Indonesia
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actors have different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in...
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From Fiction To Fact: The Impact Of CEO Social Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO's social network, firm identity, and firm performance. There are two competing theories that predict contradictory outcomes. Following social...
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On Marshallian Evolutionary Dynamics, Entry And Exit
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
New businesses add to capacity and, frequently but not always, they are the vehicles for innovation and the introduction of business experiments new to a trade. Entry and exit differ quite...
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Localized Appropriability: Pecuniary Externalities In Knowledge Exploitation
April 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctive competences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions for localized knowledge...
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ICT Capital And Services Complementarities. The Italian Evidence
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates whether ICTs hardware and services play a complementary role in boosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICTs fixed capital are a necessary but...
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Spreading The Word, Broadening Perspectives: Internet, NGOs And Globalization Discourse In Indonesia
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Globalization is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the form of economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so...
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Licensing Technology And Foreclosure In Contests
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology can license or transfer the source...
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Building Effective "Innovation Systems" Versus Dealing With "Market Failures" As Ways Of Thinking About Technology Policy
October 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the author compares two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orienting analysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriate...
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Managing Competitive Advantage: Clustering In The Singapore Financial Centre
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper uncovers the role of financial clustering in creating competitive advantage for incumbents in the Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the under researched Singapore...
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Strategic Adjustment Between Innovation And Production: Generation Of Integrated Archetypes In Spanish Service Firms
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation and production strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integrated archetypes approach to...
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The Institutional Construction Of Firms
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economies and changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they develop distinctive...
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Changing Authority Relations In Public Science Systems And Their Consequences For The Direction And Organisation Of Research
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The governance and organization of scientific research undertaken for publication have altered significantly since the end of the Second World War in many industrialized economies. These changes...
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Constructing Universities As Strategic Actors: Limitations And Variations
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted to make them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability of universities...
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Opening The Black Box Of Stakeholder Consultation: The Development Of A Planning Management Tool For The Environment Agency
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental...
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On The Information Content Of The Fama And French Factors In The UK
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This study explores the information content of HML and SMB by linking the Fama-French factors to shocks in the state variables which predict future investment opportunities. It shows that the HML...
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Clustering In The UK Financial Services: The Quest For The Enigmatic Pecuniary Externality
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the sources of agglomeration externalities in enhancing firm performance, in particular, the pecuniary externality that supports firms' bottom line. The fundamental argument on...
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Choice Of Interest Rate Term Structure Models For Assets And Liability Management
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the pricing and hedging performance of the LMM model against two spot-rate models, namely Hull-White and Black-Karasinski, and the more recent Swap Market Model from an...
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Short Rate Models: Hull-White Or Black-Karasinski? Implementation Note And Model Comparison For ALM
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors compare two one-factor short rate models: the Hull White model and the Black-Karasinski model. Despite their inherent shortcomings the short rate models are being used...
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Discrete Time Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks With Saturated Source of Secondary Users
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The strategy used for sensing in a cognitive radio network affects the white space that Secondary Users (SUs) perceive and hence their throughput. For example, let the average time interval...
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Mobility Prediction and Spatial-Temporal Traffic Estimation in Wireless Networks
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An understanding of the network traffic behavior is essential in the evolution of today's wireless networks, and thus leads to a more efficient planning and management of the network's scarce...
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Opportunistic Network Coding and Dynamic Buffer Allocation in a Wireless Butterfly Network
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors first propose a discrete-time Markov queuing model for a wireless lossy butterfly network which employs opportunistic network coding and dynamic buffer allocation at the bottlenecked...
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Financial Option Market Model for Federated Cloud Environments
September 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Pay-per-use service by Cloud service providers has attracted customers in the recent past and is still evolving. Since the resources being dealt within Clouds are non-storable and the physical...
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Game Theoretic Modeling of Cooperation Among Service Providers in Mobile Cloud Computing Environments
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobile cloud computing aims at improving the performance of mobile applications and to enhance the resource utilization of service providers. In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cloud...
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An Improved Channel Model for Cognitive Radio
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
To analyze scenarios like spectrum handoff in overlay cognitive radio networks, the authors need to capture the status change of the target channels in a more realistic manner. Most of the...
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Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks With Channel Assembling and Imperfect Sensing
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the performance of a wideband cognitive radio network where each cognitive user can assemble multiple primary channels. Two channel assembling schemes are considered: a...
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MDP-Based Admission Control for Multicast Streaming Services in Wireless Mobile Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the optimal admission control policy for Multicast Streaming Services (MSS) in the 3rd Generation (3G) and beyond wireless mobile networks. An admission decision in MSS is...
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Cooperative Spectrum Sensing With Noncoherent Transmission
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The problem of decision fusion for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks is studied when noisy fading channels are present between the Cognitive Radios (CRs) and the Fusion...
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Fuzzy Design of a Video-On-Demand Network
October 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Designing a Video -on-Demand (VoD) system is in essence an optimization task aimed at minimizing the cost of communication and storage in the corresponding network. The decision variables of this...
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Video-On-Demand Network Design and Maintenance Using Fuzzy Optimization
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Video-on-Demand (VoD) is the entertainment source which, in the future, will likely overtake regular television. Even though many companies have deployed working VoD services, to reach to the...
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Approximate Algorithms for Maximizing the Capacity of the Reverse Link in Multiple - Class CDMA Systems
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) has proved to be an efficient and stable means of communication between a group of users which share the same physical medium. Therefore, with the rising...
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Transaction Reordering to Reduce Aborts in Software Transactional Memory
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In transactional memory, conflicts between two concurrently executing transactions reduce performance, reduce scalability, and may lead to aborts, which waste computing resources. Ideally,...
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Applying Dataflow and Transactions to Lee Routing
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Programming multicore shared-memory systems is a challenging combination of exposing parallelism in their program and communicating between the resulting parallel paths of execution. The burden of...
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Parallel Query Processing on the Grid
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Database queries offer an easy-to-use declarative manner for describing complex data management tasks. Query processing technologies have been evolving for decades; however, the emergence of the...
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Meaningful Type Names as a Basis for Object Lifetime Prediction
October 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Object lifetime prediction can identify short-lived and long-lived objects at or before their heap-allocation point. This prediction is an increasingly important technique to enable optimization...
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A Plea for Glasnost Between the Machine Learning and Computer Systems Communities
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As machine learning scales to larger and more complex problems, the community increasingly requires higher performance computer systems. Meanwhile in order to achieve higher performance, computer...
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Rule Systems for Runtime Verification
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce two rule-based systems for on and offline trace analysis, RULER and LOGSCOPE. RULER is a conditional rule-based system, which has a simple and easily...
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TRACECONTRACT: A Scala DSL for Trace Analysis
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors describe TRACECONTRACT, an API for trace analysis, implemented in the SCALA programming language. They argue that for certain forms of trace analysis the best weapon is...
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Checking Flight Rules With TRACECONTRACT Application of a Scala DSL for Trace Analysis
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Typically during the design and development of a NASA space mission, rules and constraints are identified to help reduce reasons for failure during operations. These flight rules are usually...
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Internal Versus External DSLs for Trace Analysis Extended Abstract
August 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the design and implementation issues arising in the development of domain-specific languages for trace analysis. It introduces the audience to the general concepts underlying...
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Vertical Handover in Beyond Third Generation (B3G) Wireless Networks
November 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Currently, there are several wireless networks deployed around the world. Examples include cellular networks, metropolitan area networks, wireless local area networks, and personal area networks....
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Financial Crisis In Asia And The Pacific Region: Its Genesis, Severity And Impact On Poverty And Hunger
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Building on a vast recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006, using a state-of art-econometric...
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Finance, Growth, Inequality And Hunger In Asia: Evidence From Country Panel Data In 1960-2006
December 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have empirically examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006 using static and dynamic panel...
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Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty In India?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Drawing upon national household data from 2001, the present paper analyses the impact of access to Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) on household poverty in India. Propensity Score Matching (PSM)...
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Microfinance And Household Poverty Reduction: New Evidence From India
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The objective of the present paper is to examine whether household access to microfinance reduces poverty. Using national household data from India, treatment effects model is employed to estimate...
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Microfinance And Poverty A Macro Perspective
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper tests the hypothesis that microfinance reduces poverty at macro level using cross-country and panel data, based on the Microfinance Information EXchange (MIX) data on MFIs and the new...
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Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty In Bangladesh? New Evidence From Household Panel Data
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of the present paper is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the nationally representative household panel data covering 4 rounds from 1997 to...
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Capital Regulation, Monetary Policy And Financial Stability
March 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the roles of bank capital regulation and monetary policy in mitigating procyclicality and promoting macroeconomic and financial stability. The analysis is based on a dynamic...
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Microfinance Regulation And Social Protection
November 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Arguably, micro-finance provides social protection for the vulnerable by enabling them to access finance, create assets and avoid backsliding into poverty traps. This paper aims to survey the...
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International Financial Regulation, Access To Finance, Systemic Stability, And Development
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Global financial markets are subject to a complex web of soft law rules and standards called International Financial Regulation. The main rationales/objectives of International Financial...
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The Welfare Gains Of Financial Liberalization: Capital Accumulation And Idiosyncratic Risks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
From a simple (theoretical) growth argument, financial integration enables capital scarce countries to raise capital inflows with positive effects on investment and on the speed of convergence....
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The Real Origin Of Global Financial Imbalances
January 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is an evident global imbalance puzzle: capital-scarce developing countries like China are accumulating huge foreign exchange reserves while the capital-abundant developed countries, such as...
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Social Capital, Financial Crises And Health
September 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Alleviating poverty is among the most laudable aim of the Millennium Development Goals. However, policies aimed at alleviating poverty could only be successful if the people are underpinned by...
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Measuring Economic Resilience And Vulnerability: Towards An International Index
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
The world is now experiencing its worst synchronised economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. With its epicentre in the US subprime mortgage market, shockwaves spread rapidly...
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Financial Crisis In Asia And The Pacific Region-Its Genesis, Severity And Impact On Poverty And Hunger
January 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
Building on a vast recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006, using a state-of art-econometric...
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Estimating The National Impact Of The Financial Crisis In Indonesia By Combining A Rapid Qualitative Study With Nationally Representative Surveys
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper draws on a rapid qualitative assessment of the impact of the financial crisis in Indonesia, to generate hypotheses about the potential national impacts. The authors test these...
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Towards Open Tracing of P2P File Sharing Systems
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Since the release of Napster in 1999, peer-to-peer file-sharing has enjoyed a dramatic rise in popularity. A 2000 study by Plonka on the University of Wisconsin campus network found that...
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State, Business And Growth In Post-Apartheid South Africa
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the relationship between 'State-business relations' (SBRs) and pro-poor growth in South Africa. It provides a history of business organization and the role of the large...
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Is Volatility Good For Growth?
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors provide empirical support for a DSGE model with nominal wage stickiness where growth is driven by learning-by-doing and money shocks and their variance are allowed to impact on...
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