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IMF Working Paper 99/99: Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing |
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"Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing" is written by multiple authors of the Research Department. Prepayment required for individual copies. An annual subscription is $210.00 a year. It includes 12 monthly shipments and priority mail delivery. The Stock No for the subscription is WPEA.
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OECD Technical Paper 149: Economic Opening and the Demand for Skills in Developing Countries: a Review of Theory and Evidence |
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A basic feature of development dynamics is the reallocation of labour from low–
productivity to higher–productivity activities (generally more capital–intensive and also
often more skill–intensive). The expansion of skilled labour supply that accompanies rising
per capita incomes is both cause and effect of this shift in skills demand. Over long periods,
if skills supply and demand grow apace, skill premia would show little secular change;
over shorter periods, however, inevitable lags may show up as growing or shrinking premia. |
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Big Banks, Bigger Fees --A National Survey of Bank Fees |
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Big Banks, Bigger Fees: Public Interest Research Group's study on banking fees reports that many Americans can't afford to keep their money in banks. |
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GoProfit |
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Touted as "The World's Financial Search Engine," GoProfit's busy homepage is a one-stop informational source including world business news, stock information, commentary, interactive polls, and bits of trivia. The search feature allows users to search both the Internet as well as GoProfit's current catalog. Users may also create a portfolio which allows them to follow businesses and stocks of their choosing. |
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Deficits, the National Debt, and Economic Growth: Home Page |
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Deficits, the National Debt, and Economic Growth, developed by Steve Conover,Sr., advocates that the American government focus more attention on generating economic growth rather than on reducing the national debt. The Rhetoricsection of the site contains rebuttals to the common arguments used by advocates of a lower national debt. Other sections include Debt and Growth, and a library that contains a reading list on the issues as well as a collection of quotes. |
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Carving Out: Development in the Pacific |
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The homepage for Carving Out, the online counterpart to the ABC.net radio program of the same name, seems to camouflage its wealth of information behind graphics of swimming fish, circling sharks, and jumping turtles. However, Carving Out provides an excellent introduction to development issues in the Pacific, including countries such as Fiji, Tonga, Paupa New Guinea, and the Marshall Islands. Beginning with basic maps of the region, which cover the islands as well as sea areas, users may click on the links on the top and bottom of the maps and stats section to learn more about each country's language, colonial history, environmental concerns, and nuclear test sites. Clicking on More Detailed Info will take users to charts with more in-depth information on these issues. The Issues section covers topics including economics, urbanization and migration, governance, aid, and environment with articles and papers from a variety of scholars and sources. The site also contains transcripts from the radio program. While Carving Out can be confusing to navigate, it serves as a wonderful beginning resource for those interested in a basic education about development issues in the Pacific. |
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IMF Working Paper 99/90: Determinants of Angola's Parallel Market Real Exchange Rate |
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"Determinants of Angola's Parallel Market Real Exchange Rate" is written by Gelbard, Enrique; Nagayasu, Jun; African Department; Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department. Prepayment required for individual copies. An annual subscription is $210.00 a year. It includes 12 monthly shipments and priority mail delivery. The Stock No for the subscription is WPEA.
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Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) Working Papers 137: Defending the Internet Revolution in the Broadband Era: Why Open Policy Has Been Essential, Why Reversing That Policy Will Be Risky |
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Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) Working Papers 137: Defending the Internet Revolution in the Broadband Era: Why Open Policy Has Been Essential, Why Reversing That Policy Will Be Risky. |
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Electronic Commerce and the European Union |
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Electronic Commerce and the European Union, sponsored by the Information Society Project Office of European Commission, strives to "keep Europe at the forefront of the digital economy, particularly in the area of electronic commerce." This extensive site examines a wide array of aspects dealing with the EU and ecommerce in the forms of articles, columns, interactive sections, policy papers, and reports on ecommerce-related activities. A special section for frequent visitors of the site includes articles on legal issues, reports on other dealings of the Information Society, publications, and participatory opportunities such as calls for papers and discussion lists. Users may submit specific questions about electronic commerce or the European Commission to Dr. Ecommerce. |
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Bank of International Settlements [.pdf] Working Paper No.71: The term structure of announcement effects |
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This paper analyses high-frequency responses of the US yield curve to Macroeconomic announcements, exploiting the high signal-to-noise ratios of these events. Surprises in the announcements evoke relatively weak reactions from the short maturities and the strong ones from the intermediate maturities. Thus the term structure of announcement effects is hump-shaped. It fits an affine-yield model to the yield changes, using the announcement surprises as instruments for the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). The model estimates imply that the announcements impose larger shocks on an expected future target interest rate than on the current short-term interest rate and that different types of announcements generate different expectations about this target rate, how rapidly it will be approached, and how long it will be maintained. |
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Bayesian Analysis, Computation and Communcation |
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The Bayesian Analysis, Computation and Communication site is being developed by Siddhartha Chib and John Gweke from the University of Minnesota for the project Bayesian Communication in the Social Sciences. The site provides software codes for the Bayesian communication software, utility routines and Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling of econometric models developed under the project. A software manual and an article by John Gweke titled "Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models: Inference, development and Communication" is also available at the site. |
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The Information Economy |
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http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/ |
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The Information Economy, maintained by Professor Hal R. Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, includes online information about "the Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues." This directory includes a vast number of Websites dealing with topics including electronic publishing; intellectual property; network economics; and security, encryption, and privacy. Each section of the directory is divided into subtopics and includes succinct annotations and reviews of the sites. |
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All E-Commerce (AllEC.com) |
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AllEC.com is a valuable resource for those looking for a comprehensive grouping of recent and breaking news about e-commerce. Along with featured stories and news clips, this site also includes letters to the editor, daily columns, job listings, message boards, and special reports. |
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Bank of International Settlements (BIS): Working Paper 72: Reserve currency allocation: an alternative methodology |
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This paper provides a quantitative framework for choosing the composition of reserve currencies. Assuming that the central bank's performance objectives are defined in terms of ex post returns in different currency numeraires, the currency allocation problem is formulated as a multi-objective optimisation problem. The advantage of the proposed methodology is that it does not require any explicit assumptions about the risk preferences of the central bank or knowledge of the currency numeraire. Using some proxy values for the possible range of ex post returns measured in different currency numeraires, the study shows how the currency allocation problem can be solved. |
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Bank of International Settlements (BIS): Working Paper 73: The Taylor Rule and Interest Rates in the EMU Area: A Note |
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It demonstrates that average interest rates in the EMU countries in 1990-98, with the exception of the period of exchange market turmoil in 1992-93, moved very closely with average output gaps and inflation as suggested by the Taylor rule.
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United States Information Agency, Economic Perspectives, March 1998 [.pdf, zip] |
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The USIA has released the March 1998 issue of Economic Perspectives, which considers the theme of Free Trade and the Summit of the Americas. The articles center around the discussion of the formation of the Free Trade Area ofthe Americas (FTAA). |
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