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Financial System Stability Review 2015, Central Bank Of Sri Lanka (Cbsl)

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Part 8 Financial Sector Performance and System Stability

Advisory Report On The Future Direction Of Sns Bank, Nl Financial Investments

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Annual Reports And Accounts 2015-16, Hm Treasury

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Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (Rcap) - Assessment Of Basel Iii G-Sib Framework And Review Of D-Sib Frameworks - European Union, Bank For International Settlements

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Simple And Honest Confidence Intervals In Nonparametric Regression, Timothy B. Armstrong, Michal Kolesár

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the problem of constructing honest confidence intervals (CIs) for a scalar parameter of interest, such as the regression discontinuity parameter, in nonparametric regression based on kernel or local polynomial estimators. To ensure that our CIs are honest, we derive and tabulate novel critical values that take into account the possible bias of the estimator upon which the CIs are based. We show that this approach leads to CIs that are more efficient than conventional CIs that achieve coverage by undersmoothing or subtracting an estimate of the bias. We give sharp efficiency bounds of using different kernels, and derive …

How Liberal Korean And Taiwanese Textbooks Portray Their Countries’ “Economic Miracles”, Frances Chan

Student Work

A 2015-2016 William Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Frances Chan (Timothy Dwight College '16) for her essay submitted to the Department of History, “How Liberal Korean and Taiwanese Textbooks Portray their Countries’ “Economic Miracles”.” (Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History, advisor.)

Frances Chan’s essay “How Liberal Korean and Taiwanese Textbooks Portray their Countries’ “Economic Miracles,” is a fascinating exploration of the creation of historical memory as seen in textbooks on the history of postwar economic development in Korea and Taiwan. Drawing on her remarkable linguistic skills in both Korean and …

Bank Resolution And Crisis Management, Simon Gleeson, Randall Guynn

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Summary Of Collateral Eligible For The Bank's Operations, Bank Of England/Central Bank Of The United Kingdom

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Good Policy Essential To India's Stability: Rajan, The Statesman

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Annual Report And Accounts 2015 To 2016, Uk Asset Resolution

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The Wild West No More: Preserving 40 Years Of Electronic Records At The University Of Wyoming American Heritage Center, Tyler G. Cline

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center (AHC) provides access to all unrestricted collections, per its Mission Statement. However, over the past 40 years, the AHC has acquired born-digital collection material on physical media that it has been unable to provide access to. In the summer of 2014, the AHC undertook a project to migrate all born-digital records to a secure server, thereby creating the means to provide access to the material. After surveying collections databases and finding aids, the Digital Archivist and a graduate intern successfully ingested 346 pieces of digital media from 75 collections. The project was successful …

Insurgency And Small Wars: Estimation Of Unobserved Coalition Structures, Francesco Trebbi, Eric Weese

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Comunicado Relativo Às Demonstrações Financeiras Do Bes A 31 De Dezembro De 2015, Banco Espírito Santo

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Provider Training On Positional Maneuvers To Diagnose And Treat Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, John D’Agata

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Dizziness and vertigo presentations comprise 2.5 percent of all emergency department visits, with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo being the most common type of vertigo in adults over the age of fifty. The Dix-Hallpike test and Canalith Repositioning Procedure are simple bedside maneuvers to effectively diagnose and treat this type of vertigo; however, many providers are uncomfortable or lack experience performing these maneuvers. We aim to compare the effectiveness of two different teaching strategies to improve the clinical skills of emergency department providers on these maneuvers. We will randomly assign 100 emergency medicine providers to either didactic or a combination of …

Meditation Interventions In Subjects With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment, Emily K. Richards

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

The prodromal stage of Alzheimer’s Disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, is characterized by subjective and objective memory impairment beginning with episodic memory. Few treatments have been identified to effectively slow disease progression to dementia. Meditation is an emerging novel treatment to improve deficits in subjects with these progressive cognitive impairments. Meditation and other novel treatments are critical for prolonging patients’ independence, reducing caregiver burden, and healthcare costs. This study will examine the effectiveness of an eight-week intervention using two meditation methods and two control groups on cognition and mood in participants with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. The primary outcome is …

The Argentine Banking Crises Of 1995 And 2001: An Exploration Into The Role Of Macroprudential Regulations, Pablo Guidotti, Juan Pablo Nicolini

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Annual Report 2015, Banco Espirito Santo

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The Collateral Framework Of The Eurosystem And Its Fiscal Implications, Jakob K. Eberl

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Uk Asset Resolution Announces The Transfer Of Its Mortgage Servicing Operations To Computershare, United Kingdom: Uk Asset Resolution (Ukar)

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How Much Financial Assistance Did The Esm Provide To Spain?, European Stability Mechanism

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Effect Of Peritoneal Dialysis On Weight Change In Pediatric Patients, Lindsey Belliveau

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Obesity is associated with lower transplantation rate and higher mortality in pediatric end stage renal disease patients. Glucose-based peritoneal dialysis is the preferred method of dialysis for these patients, a therapy that can cause systemic glucose absorption. It is unknown whether this absorption leads to weight change in pediatric patients. We propose to examine whether Peritoneal Dialysis is associated with weight change in pediatric End Stage Renal Disease patients. We will prospectively observe a cohort of children aged 2-17 who are starting peritoneal dialysis. We will measure weight change after one year of dialysis, and compare these measurements to historical …

Iron Intake In Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder And Restless Legs Syndrome, Olivia Rojas

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Growing evidence supports an association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and restless legs syndrome (RLS) in children. Prior research suggests that in some patients iron deficiency is an underlying cause of pathological changes in the dopaminergic system of the brain that modulates these disorders. However, the underlying cause of such iron deficiency has not yet been identified. We propose to determine the prevalence of low serum ferritin levels, a marker of reduced iron stores, in children with comorbid ADHD and RLS, and if diet is associated with their diagnosis and observed blood iron levels. A case-control study will examine a sample …

The Incidence Of Carbon Taxes In U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons From Energy Cost Pass-Through, Sharat Ganapati, Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper studies how changes in energy input costs for U.S. manufacturers affect the relative welfare of manufacturing producers and consumers (i.e., incidence). In doing so, we develop a novel partial equilibrium methodology designed to estimate the incidence of input taxes. This method simultaneously accounts for three determinants of incidence that are typically studied in isolation: incomplete pass-through of input costs, differences in industry competitiveness, and substitution amongst inputs used for production. We apply this methodology to a set of U.S. manufacturing industries for which we observe plant-level unit prices and input choices. We find that about 70 percent of …

Expected Worth For 2 × 2 Matrix Games With Variable Grid Sizes, Michael R. Powers, Martin Shubik, Wen Wang

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We offer a detailed examination of a broad class of 2 x 2 matrix games as a first step toward considering measures of resource distribution and efficiency of outcomes. In the present essay, only noncooperative equilibria and entropic outcomes are considered, and a crude measure of efficiency employed. Other solution concepts and the formal construction of an efficiency index will be addressed in a companion paper.

Mcmc Confidence Sets For Identified Sets, Xiaohong Chen, Timothy M. Christensen, Elie Tamer

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In complicated/nonlinear parametric models, it is generally hard to determine whether the model parameters are (globally) point identified. We provide computationally attractive procedures to construct confidence sets (CSs) for identified sets of parameters in econometric models defined through a likelihood or a vector of moments. The CSs for the identified set or for a function of the identified set (such as a subvector) are based on inverting an optimal sample criterion (such as likelihood or continuously updated GMM), where the cutoff values are computed via Monte Carlo simulations directly from a quasi posterior distribution of the criterion. We establish new …

Optimal Inference In A Class Of Regression Models, Timothy B. Armstrong, Michal Kolesár

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the problem of constructing confidence intervals (CIs) for a linear functional of a regression function, such as its value at a point, the regression discontinuity parameter, or a regression coefficient in a linear or partly linear regression. Our main assumption is that the regression function is known to lie in a convex function class, which covers most smoothness and/or shape assumptions used in econometrics. We derive finite-sample optimal CIs and sharp efficiency bounds under normal errors with known variance. We show that these results translate to uniform (over the function class) asymptotic results when the error distribution is …

Money And Status: How Best To Incentivize Work, Pradeep Dubey, John Geanakoplos

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Status is greatly valued in the real world, yet it has not received much attention from economic theorists. We examine how the owner of a firm can best combine money and status to get her employees to work hard for the least total cost. We find that she should motivate workers of low skill mostly by status and high skill mostly by money. Moreover, she should do so by using a small number of titles and wage levels. This often results in star wages to the elite performers. By analogy, the governance of a society should pay special attention to …

Monte Carlo Confidence Sets For Identified Sets, Xiaohong Chen, Timothy M. Christensen, Elie Tamer

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In complicated/nonlinear parametric models, it is generally hard to know whether the model parameters are point identified. We provide computationally attractive procedures to construct confidence sets (CSs) for identified sets of full parameters and of subvectors in models defined through a likelihood or a vector of moment equalities or inequalities. These CSs are based on level sets of optimal sample criterion functions (such as likelihood or optimally-weighted or continuously-updated GMM criterions). The level sets are constructed using cutoffs that are computed via Monte Carlo (MC) simulations directly from the quasi-posterior distributions of the criterions. We establish new Bernstein-von Mises (or …

Energy Prices, Pass-Through, And Incidence In U.S. Manufacturing, Sharat Ganapati, Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper studies how increases in energy input costs for production are split between consumers and producers via changes in product prices (i.e., pass-through). We show that in markets characterized by imperfect competition, marginal cost pass-through, a demand elasticity, and a price-cost markup are sucient to characterize the relative change in welfare between producers and consumers due to a change in input costs. We find that increases in energy prices lead to higher plant-level marginal costs and output prices but lower markups. This suggests that marginal cost pass-through is incomplete, with estimates centered around 0.7. Our confidence intervals reject both …

The Incidence Of Carbon Taxes In U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons From Energy Cost Pass-Through, Sharat Ganapati, Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper estimates how increases in production costs due to energy inputs affect consumer versus producer surplus (i.e., incidence). In doing so, we develop a general methodology to measure the incidence of changes in input costs that can account for three first-order issues: factor substitution amongst inputs used for production, incomplete pass-through of input costs, and industry competitiveness. We apply this methodology to a set of U.S. manufacturing industries for which we observe plant-level output prices and input costs. We find that about 70 percent of energy price-driven changes in input costs are passed through to consumers. This implies that …