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The influence of actual and unrequited interventions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-04)
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports ...
The effects of optimal time of day on persuasion processes in older adults
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-05)
Past research demonstrates that the majority of older adults (60 years and older) perform resource-demanding tasks better in the morning than in the afternoon or evening. The authors ask whether this time-of-day effect ...
How Robust is Comparative Advantage?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005-11)
This paper reviews the theoretical development of the concept of comparative advantage, starting with the two-good model of Ricardo and the two-good extension and reinterpretation by Haberler. In both, the presence of ...
Patterns of Trade and Growth across Cones
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-06)
This paper examines the implications of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model for the patterns of production and trade that will emerge as a country grows. It focuses primarily on world equilibria that include two or more cones ...
Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-01)
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of firm divestitures and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, we control for accompanying ownership ...
Reversal of fortune: Macroeconomic policy, International Finance, and Banking in Japan
(Springer-Verlag, 2005-11)
This essay provides an introduction and overview for a symposium on macroeconomic policy, international finance and banking in Japan. The symposium consists of thirteen papers. Nine of the papers including most of those ...
Work, Income, and Material Hardship after Welfare Reform
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-06)