The report uses a methodological approach founded by W. S. Jevons and A. L. Chizhevsky. The years of solar cycles were numbered according to the order established in the astrophysics of the Sun, grouped and compared with the arithmetic averages of the effective rates for US federal funds....

This paper analyzes the stabilizing properties of alternative monetary policy regimes. In practice there is a choice between two broad types of monetary policy regimes: a fixed exchange rate regime or a floating exchange rate regime. In this paper I compare exchange rate targeting with different...

This dissertation discusses Japanese capital market deregulation for 1980:12-1996:12, which began gradually with the capital procurement of the most multinationalized firms and differentiated them from the pure domestic firms. We try to quantify what actually happened in the Tokyo Stock Exchange...