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Financial Instruments To Hedge Commodity Price Risk For Developing Countries
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the linkages between the financial markets in the United States and the seven largest Latin American economies, focusing on the impact of shocks originating in the U.S....
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
European finance is becoming increasingly cross-border, while the European architecture for safeguarding financial stability - including decision-making processes for providing financial-stability...
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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Spillovers To Ireland
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the duration of capital account crises. The authors develop a new index to identify both the start and the end of these crises. Applying the index to a sample of 18 crisis...
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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The Next Billion Consumers: A Road Map For Expanding Financial Inclusion In India
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The problem of financial exclusion is so large that it seems almost intractable. Creative business models, however, can transform a vast segment of overlooked, underserved consumers into an...
Provided by: Boston Consulting Group
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Financial Development, Bank Ownership, And Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of...
Provided by: Harvard Business School
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Tracking Global Factor Inputs, Factor Earnings, And Emissions Associated With Consumption In A World Modeling Framework
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new approach for estimating the amount of carbon embodied in a product consumed in a given economy, taking account of where the inputs to that product were extracted and...
Provided by: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Independence Of Financial Research
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This information summarizes the internal procedures and policies, including standards of good practice, designed to assist in identifying conflicts of interest that might affect the impartiality...
Provided by: Credit Suisse Group
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The Impact Of Changing Skill Levels On Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is...
Provided by: Vanderbilt University
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Business Cycle Fluctuations And Excess Sensitivity Of Private Consumption
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate whether business cycle fluctuations affect the degree of excess sensitivity of private consumption growth to disposable income growth. Using multivariate state space...
Provided by: Bank of England
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The Reaction Of Consumer Spending And Debt To Tax Rebates? Evidence From Consumer Credit Data
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. They estimate the monthly response of credit card payments,...
Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Optimal Monetary Policy In The Euro Area In The Presence Of Heterogeneity
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the optimal design of monetary policy in the European monetary union in the presence of structural asymmetries across union member countries. It derives analytically an optimal...
Provided by: Bank of Greece
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Technology And Growth At Mid-Sized Companies
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Small to Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that make intelligent use of ICT (information and communications technology) can gain a competitive edge within their industries. They are able to grow faster...
Provided by: Economist Intelligence Unit
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Financial Guarantee As An Innovation Tool In Islamic Project Finance
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a model to study the arrangement of Islamic project finance with the participation of the government as a provider of loan guarantees. The owner-shareholders (musharaka...
Provided by: University of New Orleans
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Collateral, Financial Arrangements And Pareto Optimality
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The existence of collateral requirements to guarantee repayment on issued securities reduces in general the efficiency of competitive equilibria. The general equilibrium analysis is presented in a...
Provided by: Collegio Carlo Alberto
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Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence From The Financial Analysis Market
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and their decision to become self-employed as well as their probability to survive as entrepreneurs....
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Financial Risk In The Biotechnology Industry
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The biotechnology industry has been an engine of innovation for the U.S. healthcare system and, more generally, the U.S. economy. It is by far the most research intensive industry in the U.S. In...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Did Firms Substitute Dividends For Share Repurchases After The 2003 Reductions In Shareholder Tax Rates?
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper tests whether firms altered their dividend and share repurchase policies in response to the 2003 reductions in shareholder tax rates. The authors predict that firms substituted...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression In Finland In The 1990s
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper is a primer on the great depressions methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999, 2007) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002, 2007). The authors use growth accounting and simple dynamic...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Policy With Dispersed Information
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper studies policy in a class of economies in which information about commonly-relevant fundamentals - such as aggregate productivity and demand conditions - is dispersed and cannot be...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Temporary Help Services Employment In Portugal, 1995-2000
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in Temporary Help Services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy,...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
