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Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies: Taking Stock of the Issues [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper we present an overview of a number of issues relating to the equilibrium exchange rates of transition economies of the former soviet bloc.
Halpern, László, MacDonald, Ronald, Égert, Balázs   +2 more
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Coordination Effect of Oligopolists' Multimarket Contact

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the coordination effect of oligopolists' multimarket contact with asymmetric cost. We extend a model of infinitely repeated multimarket contact games with “symmetric advantage” in the seminal paper of Bernheim and Whinston (The RAND Journal of Economics 1990; 21(1): 1–26).
Zuo Yu, Tianyu Luo
wiley   +1 more source

THE NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND'S INFLUENCE ON THE CONTROL OF THE LIQUIDITY SITUATION OF THE BANKING SECTOR AT A TIME OF LOW INFLATION

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2007
Przedmiotem analizy w opracowaniu bedzie sytuacja plynnościowa sektora bankowego w latach 2002-2006, bedących okresem niskiej inflacji. W rozwazaniach ujeto prezentacje zmian czynnikow zwiekszających i zmniejszających skale nadplynności oraz instrumenty polityki pienieznej wykorzystane do absorpcji nadplynności.
openaire   +2 more sources

Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence [PDF]

, 2000
A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns.
Srinivas, P.S., Whitehouse, Edward, Yermo, Juan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau, Simone Dietrich, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) with the present interglacial period (MIS 1) using a multidimensional functional diversity analysis: The marine molluscs from Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago, central Atlantic) as a case study

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine fossil records hold outstanding importance for ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical studies. Santa Maria Island in the Azores Archipelago (central Atlantic) features a remarkable marine fossil record spanning from the Pliocene to recent times.
Sérgio P. Ávila, Samuel Arruda, Luís Silva, Ana Hipólito, Rui Quartau, Ricardo S. Ramalho, Patrícia Madeira, Carlos S. Melo, Lara Baptista, Ana Cristina Rebelo, Gustavo M. Martins, Gonçalo Castela Ávila, Mohamed Amine Doukani, Esther Martín‐González, Daniele Scarponi, Alfred Uchman, Markes Johnson   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nowcasting Quarterly GDP Dynamics in the Euro Area – The Role of Sentiment Indicators

Comparative Economic Research, 2014
The paper compares the most closely watched sentiment indicators with respect to their ability to nowcast quarterly GDP dynamics in the Euro Area and its biggest economies.
Paweł Gajewski
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Institutional Learning and Creation: Bank Crises and Supervision in East Central Europe [PDF]

, 2004
This article examines the political conditions shaping the creation of new institutional capabilities. It analyzes bank sector reforms in the 1990s in three leading postcommunist democracies – Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
McDermott, Gerald A.
core   +1 more source

Does Palsa Thaw in Northern Finland Contribute to Remobilisation of Metals Accumulated in Peat Into Surface Waters?

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Permafrost is rapidly degrading in the sporadic zone, including palsa mires in Scandinavia. Peatlands in the area have likely accumulated heavy metals from atmospheric deposition of industrial contaminants in the wider region. As the palsa mire chemical composition is not well known, and in other permafrost regions the permafrost thaw may ...
Joanna Katarzyna Jóźwik, Krystyna Kozioł, Marcin Frankowski, Marta Jakubiak, Kamil Nowiński, Mariusz Jędrysek, Danuta Szumińska, Żaneta Polkowska   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Veronica paczoskiana is no more than a pine forest ecotype of V. spicata that evolved independently in forest‐steppes of Ukraine and the Altai region

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The Eurasian steppe area has been a dynamic vegetation biome during the Pleistocene with its repeated cycles of forest advances and retreats. Such a scenario allows the evolution of ecotypes at the ecotone with the potential for parallel evolution in different parts of the distribution area.
Dirk C. Albach, Gulzar Khan, Zoya M. Tsymbalyuk, Lyudmila M. Nitsenko, Sergei L. Mosyakin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source