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Is the USA's Current Account Sustainable?

Bubla, Florian - 2003

The extraordinary height of the U.S. current account deficits in the 90s gave rise to concern, a variety of papers and political recommendationsrevealing the very contrary opinions of economists on the subject.From this alarming evolution, the question of sustainability of such a...

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Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead to Currency Appreciation?

Dominguez, Kathryn M. E.; Fatum, Rasmus; Vacek, Pavel - 2010

Many developing countries have increased their foreign reserve stocks dramatically in recent years, in large part motivated by the desire for precautionary self-insurance. One of the negative consequences of large accumulations for these countries is the risk of valuation losses. In this paper...

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Diversification of Foreign Exchange Reserves in Newly Industrialized Countries

Hsu, Ker-Tah - 2001

The main purpose of this dissertation is to solve the following question: How will the emergence of the Euro influence the currency composition of the NICs?monetary reserves? Taiwan and Thailand are chosen as our investigation subjects. There are two sorts of motives for central banks' reserve...

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A comprehensive approach for currency crises theories stressing the role of the anchor country

Ganz, Verena - 2008

The approach is based on the finding that new generations of currency crises theories always had developed ex post after popular currency crises. Discussing the main theories of currency crises shows their disparity: The First Generation of currency crises models argues based on the assumption...

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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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