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Numerical simulation of a heave-only floating OWC (oscillating water column) device
Luo, Yongyao; Wang, Zhengwei; Peng, Guangjie; Xiao, Yexiang - In: Energy 76 (2014) C, pp. 799-806
with dynamic mesh to analyze the performance of a heave-only floating OWC (oscillating water column) device. The model was … significant effect on the power capture efficiency. The heave-free floating OWC device has two resonance frequencies: natural …
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Aspects Regarding Investment Projects
Danis, Adriana - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 7 (2015) 1, pp. 158-163
The investment activity has a central place in the production of goods and services area and also in the consumption area, being the factor that simultaneously influences the supply and the demand. The proof of this statement is given by the processes that stimulate and multiply effects which...
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Managed floating: Understanding the new international monetary order
Bofinger, Peter; Wollmershäuser, Timo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2001
Although there seems to be a broad consensus among economists that purely floating or completely fixed exchange rates … different forms of floating on the basis of a central bank's intervention activity: pure floating (no interventions …), independent floating (exchange rate smoothing), and managed floating (exchange rate targeting). Our cross-country study shows that …
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Floating islands: a unique fish aggregating method
Suresh, V.R. - In: Naga 23 (2000) 1, pp. 11-13
A fish aggregating device made of aquatic weeds and grass (Phoom) is used in Loktak lake in the northeastern region of India. It has been used successfully in this very productive fishery for centuries. Today, the fishery itself is under pressure from overexploitation, soil erosion leading to...
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Hydrodynamics-based floating wind turbine support platform optimization: A basis function approach
Hall, Matthew; Buckham, Brad; Crawford, Curran - In: Renewable Energy 66 (2014) C, pp. 559-569
The floating wind turbine support structure design problem is complicated by conflicting technical objectives and …
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On the road to the euro zone. Currency rate stabilization: experiences of the selected EU countries
Bukowski, Slawomir - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2008
The aim of this article is to show the threats connected with the exchange rate stabilization within the framework of ERM II and the analysis of the randomly selected EU countries – candidates for the Euro Zone. A two year stabilization of the exchange rate within the ERM II required prior to...
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Optimal Fear of Floating: The Role of Currency Mismatches and Fiscal Constraints
Ganapolsky, Eduardo J. J. - Econometric Society - 2004
introduces a new channel through which the fear of floating is generated. It departs from the previous research in an important …
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Explaining the Transition Between Exchange Rate Regimes
MASSON, Paul; RUGE-MURCIA, Francisco J. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2003
This paper studies the transition between exchange rate regimes using a Markov chain model with time-varying transition probabilities. The probabilities are parameterized as nonlinear functions of variables suggested by the currency crisis and optimal currency area literature. Results using...
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Fixes: Of the Forward Discount Puzzle
Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Regressions of ex-post changes in floating exchange rates on appropriate interest differentials typically imply that …
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Bretton-Woods Monetary System: Was It Fixed or De-facto Floating?
Bednarik, Radek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
International monetary system made by agreement in Bretton – Woods, is widely known to be the system of fixed exchange rates with allowed +/- 1% band of oscillation. As such, it is viewed as the period of exchange rates stability. However, our analysis of Reinhart – Rogoff’s (2004)...
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