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The WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) has been hailed as a fundamental aspect of the Multilateral Trading System for developing countries. At the same time developing countries face many challenges to ensure their effective participation in the mechanism. This paper presents statistical...
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economic interventions on conflict duration. Moreover, specific conditions are identified under which foreign interventions … work best. The results suggest that diplomatic and military interventions can shorten civil wars, while economic … interventions do not affect the duration of civil wars but may play a conditioning role. The findings are obtained by fitting a …
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corner solutions. These intermediate regimes are characterized by significant foreign exchange market interventions of … different forms of floating on the basis of a central bank's intervention activity: pure floating (no interventions … interventions and sterilization and we explain why a central bank has an interest of controlling simultaneously the exchange rate …
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This paper is the first attempt to assess the impact of official FOREX interventions of the three major central banks … Bayesian framework developed by Bos and Shephard (2004). Our results show that in general, the concerted interventions tend to … affect the dynamics of both currency components of the exchange rate. In contrast, unilateral interventions are found to …
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The need to address extreme poverty from the perspective of marginality arises from the frustration that the number of the poorest and hungry remains unacceptably high. This triggered the call for an innovative approach from the side of science and action. The conceptual and analytical framework...
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-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …
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The bulk of recent literature on foreign exchange interventions has overlooked the potential interdependencies that may …
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This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an … theoretical premise of the model is that interventions convey signals that communicate information about the exchange rate … objectives of central bank. The model is used to analyse the impact of Japanese FX interventions during the period 1999 -2011 on …
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Different segments of a population affected by the same policy intervention may have different responses. We study the role of equilibrium effects on explaining these differences. Our case study is the government's extension of guarantees during the Great Recession to certain debt issuers. We...
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interventions. Our findings indicate that the most influential interventions are based on scientific knowledge and efficacy salience …
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