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Infusing the use of seasonal climate forecasting into crop management practice in North East Australia using discussion support software

Nelson, RA; Holzworth, DP; Hammer, GL; Hayman, PT - 2002

Seasonal climate forecasting offers potential for improving management of crop production risks in the cropping systems of NE Australia. But how is this capability best connected to management practice? Over the past decade, we have pursued participative systems approaches involving...

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Automating exchange rate target zones: intervention via an electronic limit order book

Melvin, Michael; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik - 2008

This paper describes and analyzes automated intervention of a target zone. Unusually detailed information about the … order book allows studying intervention effects in a microstructure approach. We find in our sample that intervention … increases exchange rate volatility (and spread) for the next minutes but that intervention days show a lower degree of …

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An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...

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Exchange rate management in emerging markets : intervention via an electronic limit order book

Melvin, Michael; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik - 2009

beliefs of market participants. We find for our sample that intervention increases exchange rate volatility (and spread) for … the next minutes but that intervention days show a lower degree of volatility (and spread) than non-intervention days. We … also show for intraday data that the price impact of interbank order flow is smaller on intervention days than on non-intervention …

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Aufsichtsgremien und deren Möglichkeiten der Intervention bietet dieses Kapitel eine detaillierte, empirische Bestandsaufnahme der … on this relation is analyzed. Chapter 5 studies the intervention activities of supervisory boards. After presenting the … German institutional context of the tasks of supervisory boards and their possibilities of intervention, this chapter …

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Consumer involvement in quality use of medicines (QUM) projects - lessons from Australia

Kirkpatrick, Carl M. J.; Roughead, Elizabeth E.; … - 2005

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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education

Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024

High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

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Swiss National Bank: Is the recent loss a threat to monetary policy? A research note

Kämpf, Vanessa; Stadtmann, Georg; Zimmermann, Lilli - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 13 (2024) 1, pp. 43-55

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced it will refrain from profit distribution in 2022 owing to the accumulation of a huge financial loss. In this paper we examine key determinants of the SNB's loss and shed light on its implications to monetary policy pursuit. In particular, we show that...

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Using a problem detection study (PDS) to identify and compare health care provider and consumer views of antihypertensive therapy

Wade, A. H.; Weir, D. N.; Cameron, A. P.; Tett, S. E. - 2003

The objectives of this study were to ascertain consumer knowledge and behaviour about hypertension and treatment and to compare these with health care providers' perceptions (of 'most' consumers). The design for the study was a problem detection study (PDS): focus groups and then survey. Focus...

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The role of people in knowledge management and corporate intelligence : a case study

Groenewald, Thomas - 2003

A real-life intervention to improve the efficacy of an organisation’s electronic document management system (EDMS) is … business case for the intervention is discussed and the unfolding of the intervention outlined. Thereafter the discussion is …

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