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Does the US Government Hedge against Fiscal Risk?
Berndt, Antje; Lustig, Hanno; Yeltekin, Sevin - 2009
We develop a method for measuring the amount of insurance the portfolio of government liabilities provides against scal shocks, and apply it to postwar US data. We dene scal shocks as surprises in defense spending. Our results indicate that the US federal government is partially hedged against...
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Ökonomie sichtbar machen : die Welt nationaler Schulden in Bildschirmgröße. Eine Ethnographie
Grimpe, Barbara - 2010
Nationalökonomien und ihre Verschuldung sind eigentlich unüberschaubar. Am Beispiel sogenannter Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer zeigt dieses Buch, wie Regierungen und internationale Finanzinstitutionen sich dennoch tagtäglich Übersicht verschaffen: Mithilfe spezifischer...
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Signalling fiscal stress in the euro area : a country-specific early warning system
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Koester, Gerrit B.; …
La crisis de deuda soberana en la zona del euro ha aumentado el interés por los indicadores de alerta temprana. El principal objetivo de estos indicadores es anticipar la acumulación de desequilibrios fiscales para facilitar la prevención de crisis con las políticas fi scales y...
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A framework for debt-maturity management
Bigio, Saki; Nuño Barrau, Galo; Passadore, Juan - 2019
En este trabajo se determina el problema de la gestión óptima de la deuda pública en una pequeña economía abierta. El Gobierno emite un continuo de bonos de vencimiento finito sujeto a restricciones de liquidez. Hallamos que la solución puede ser descentralizada: la emisión óptima de un...
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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics
Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005
Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...
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Internationale Konjunkturverbunde/International Business Cycles
Graff, Michael - 2006
interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …
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Interorganizational dynamics in collaboration in university-industry research projects: context, politics and social construction
Zanko, Michael; Badham, Richard; Garrety, Karin H - 2005
University-industry partnerships (UIPs) are widely viewed as essential in leveraging research capability and economic performance in organizations and the nation as a whole. In Australia, as in many other countries, the national government commits significant funds to such ‘strategic’...
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Regional integration of equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Piesse J.; Hearn B. - 2005
Equity markets in developing and emerging economies have grown in number and importance as a result of financial market globalisation. However, their role in economic growth and development is enhanced if nascent markets are integrated with well-established ones. Market integration, measured by...
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
van der Berg S.; Louw M. - 2004
This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial...
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The development of agrarian foreign trade in rabbit meat
Smutka, Luboš; Rosochatecká, Eva - 2012
The paper analyses the production development and trade in rabbit meat in the Czech Republic, in the world and in … total volume of world meat production has been oscillating between 0,5–0,7%. The first part of the paper analyses the main … the world market. The analysis of competitiveness is made through the calculation of RCA index (the Balassa (1965) Index …
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