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Bulgaria’s Path to the Euro: The Role and Legacy of the Currency Board [PDF]

open access: yesFinancial and Economic Review
Bulgaria’s monetary integration with Europe started with the creation of the currency board in 1997. This paper traces how hard constraints on central bank financing and money creation, combined with political consensus forged in crisis, restored ...
Charles Enoch, Anne-Marie Gulde
doaj   +1 more source

Debt Is Not Free [PDF]

open access: yesIMF Working Papers, 2020
With public debt soaring across the world, a growing concern is whether current debt levels are a harbinger of fiscal crises, thereby restricting the policy space in a downturn. The empirical evidence to date is however inconclusive, and the true cost of debt may be overstated if interest rates remain low.
Marialuz Moreno Badia   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Dette et droits. Que signifie « payer sa peine » dans les prisons de Brasília

open access: yesBrésil(s), 2023
In this article, we present an ethnographic material and our interpretations of the meanings that people deprived of liberty in Brasília (Federal District) give to their daily experiences, paying particular attention to ...
Carolina Barreto Lemos, Marcus Cardoso
doaj   +1 more source

Dealing with Debt [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This paper explores the menu of options for renormalizing public debt levels relative to nominal activity in the long run, should governments eventually decide to do so. Orthodox ones for medium-term debt stabilization, the standard fare of officialdom, include enhancing growth, running primary budget surpluses, and privatizing government assets ...
Reinhart, Carmen   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Tunneling, cognitive load and time orientation and their relations with dietary behavior of people experiencing financial scarcity – an AI-assisted scoping review elaborating on scarcity theory

open access: yesInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Background The concept of a financial scarcity mindset has raised much attention as an explanation for poor decision-making and dysfunctional behavior. It has been suggested that financial scarcity could also impair dietary behavior, through a decline in
Annemarieke van der Veer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hidden Debt

open access: yesAEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022
We study the role of transparency in debt and default dynamics in a quantitative sovereign default model augmented with asymmetric information. We assume that the sovereign debt portfolio is not transparent and part of the debt is not observable to lenders.
Guler, Bulent   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Recycling of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys: Fundamental and Technological Aspects of a Vacuum Induction Melting Processing Route

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The present study investigates recycling of NiTi shape memory alloys via vacuum induction melting. An ingot was synthesized from elemental Ni and Ti and subjected to three subsequent remelting cycles. Remelting increases process durations and impurity levels and adversely affects microstructures and functional properties.
Sakia Sophia Noorzayee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of financial scarcity in the relationship between income and health behaviors: a causal mediation analysis

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Financial scarcity is an increasing problem and health behaviors may be impaired by subjective experience of stress due to financial scarcity.
Annemarieke van der Veer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Differences in Precision Agriculture Adoption: New and Beginning Farmers, and Established Farmers

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper compares precision agriculture (PA) adoption between new and beginning farmers (NBFRs) and established farmers using data from a 2021 U.S. Midwest farmer survey. We focus on the human capital of two different groups of farmers in the PA adoption.
Whoi Cho, Oscar Sarasty, Tong Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Growing debt burden in low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19 may constrain health financing

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2022
Debt burdens are growing steadily in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), compounded by the COVID-19 economic recession, threatening to crowd out essential health spending.
Frederik Federspiel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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