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Economic and Financial Developments in Goa
Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2011
Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank are outlined. Policy challenges ahead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357879
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Does Central Bank Communication really Lead to better Forecasts of Policy Decisions? New Evidence Based on a Taylor Rule Model for the ECB
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2009
central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President’s introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013956
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Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approaches and Lessons from South Asia
Osrin, David; Nair, Nirmala; Tripathy, Prasanta; Prost, … - eSocialSciences - 2010
Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited; health workers are often not skilled and confident in caring for newborn infants; and there are inequalities across all these factors. The best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515956
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ICTs and Urban Microenterprises: Identifying and Maximizing Opportunities for Economic Development
Ilavarasan, Vigneswara; Levy, Mark R - eSocialSciences - 2010
The research reported here was guided by three questions: (1) What are the current and potential patterns of mobile phone, landline, PC, and Internet café use among urban microentrepreneurs? (2) Are mobile phones, PCs, and Internet cafés related to the stability or growth of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492220
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Communication and Power: The State of Research
Das, Biswajit - eSocialSciences - 2010
Given the increasingly confusing proliferation of models for communication research, documentation of some of the … discussions on communication rather than any theory per se. [WP No. 01/2007]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500224
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The Path to Purchase During Shopping
Sinha, Piyush Kumar; Krishnaswamy, Gopi - eSocialSciences - 2010
The proposed study aims to identify and analyse the path to purchase for shoppers. This study will attempt to understand the impact of the major factors on the purchase behaviour of shoppers by examining purchase paths across different product categories signifying different shopping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480376
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Elements of Effective Central Banking: Theory, Practice, and History
Goodfriend, Marvin - eSocialSciences - 2007
The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a revolutionary period in which the world emerged from great inflation and output instability into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170137
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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - CESifo - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051565
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Long Persuasion Games
Forges, Francoise; Koessler, Frédéric - CESifo - 2006
This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181479
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Does Money Matter in the ECB Strategy? New Evidence Based on ECB Communication
Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006
We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406390