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A Cross Country Evaluation Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary And Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.

Trends. Bailing Out Of A Bailout: The Case Of Brazil, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses international bailouts that are dependent on behavioral promises.

Editorial, N Balasubramanian

IIMB Management Review

The opening up of the economy has brought in its wake a surfeit of international brands that are now available to Indian customers. Many of these brands are internationally strong and it is no surprise that the qualitystarved Indian consumer is increasingly turning to these trusted names. What happens to the desi brands that have been assiduously built up by business houses within the country? The Round Table this time looks at this issue and seeks to investigate which way Indian brands are headed. Among the articles presented in this issue are two that address issues relating to rewards. Abhoy …

Multinationals And Subsidiaries, Rishikesha T Krishnan

IIMB Management Review

K Ramachandran, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Philips India, a subsidiary of the Dutch electronics giant Philips Electronics NV, shares the Philips experience as he speaks on the post-liberalisation scenario and its effects on the Indian market, aspects of the parentsubsidiary relationship and the nuances of restructuring. Opining on business education, he stresses the need to distinguish between 'skills' and 'education'.

Exchange-Rate Policies In Central Europe And Monetary Union, Lucjan Orlowski

WCBT Faculty Publications

Looks at the relationship between exchange-rate and monetary policies in transition economies (TEs) in central Europe bent on becoming part of the European Union. Review of practiced targets of monetary policy in response to the requirements of monetary union; Question of whether or not candidates will resort to a final currency devaluation; Suggestions for adjustments in short- and long-term monetary policy.

Change In U.S. Tariffs: The Role Of Import Prices And Commercial Policies, Douglas A. Irwin

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract is available for this item.

Design For A Net Impact Evaluation Of Retraining In China, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

The main aim of the national reemployment project in China is to redeploy workers identified as redundant within urban state owned enterprises (SOEs) to new jobs. As part of a larger effort to document the success of the reemployment project in China, a net impact analysis of retraining will be performed using a sample drawn from three cities which span the range of economic conditions in China: Shanghai, Wuhan and Shenyang. This paper presents a practical design for the sampling necessary to undertake the evaluation.

The United States House Of Representatives And The International Monetary Fund: Cognitions And Miscognitions, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a brief cognitive analysis of rationales for not supporting the allocation of $18 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Regional Economic Integration: From Independence To Interdependence, C T Selvarajah

IIMB Management Review

Liberalisation has seen many economies, especially in Asia, opening their hitherto sheltered domestic markets to global competition and providing greater opportunities to trade and foreign investment. The spinoffs of liberalisation bring in new implications, opportunities and challenges for the governments as well as the organisations involved. Round Table features some of the issues discussed in the conference on 'Managing Economic Liberalisation in South Asia : Directions for the 21st Century' held in Chennai, India, from August 10 -13. Selvarajah examines the realignment of economies towards globalisation as a development of regionalism. The shift in economic forces away from multilateral arrangements …

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xv, No. 1, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies committee regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

Cognitive Complexity And The International Monetary Fund: An $18 Billion Question, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes two common political positions on the Clinton Administration's proposal to allocate an additional $18 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and then offers a less common position. The three positions may be differentiated by the psychological construct of cognitive complexity.

Coping With Contagion : Europe And The Asian Economic Crisis, Brian Bridges

CAPS Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Relative Gains Problem And Case Studies Of Economic Cooperation In East Asia, Ping Deng

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Relative gains problem basically means unequal cooperative payoffs disproportionately favoring partners. With the relative gains problem widely accepted as a serious impediment to international cooperation, some scholars have theoretically argued or modeled several conditions that are most likely to foster a state's sensitivity to relative gains and thus substantially affect the prospects for cooperation. But little empirical work has been done to date. The central objective of this dissertation is to test whether those theoretical propositions can be supported by empirical evidence. For this purpose, we have deducted three hypotheses: (1) If a state faces military threat and zero-sum political …

From The Ibpp Research Associates. Brazil: Rafael Raffaelli. Part I, Rafael Raffaelli

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Dr. Rafaelli is affiliated with Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)--Federal University of Santa Catarina--which is located on Santa Catarina Island in Southern Brazil. His current research interests include the (1) representation of nature in the arts and (2) philosophy and implications of representation in the current social and psychological conceptions of environment leading to political action. Dr. Raffaelli also is affiliated with a doctoral program in the above areas. The author discusses the current economics crisis in Brazil.

The Coming Age Of Scarcity : Preventing Mass Death And Genocide In The Twenty-First Century, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann

Books

The structure of the book is simple. The first part analyzes major forces having an impact on the survivability of civilization as we know it into the twenty-first century. It outlines the challenges we face, including overpopulation, pressure upon the land, migration, ecological damage, and social instability. In part two, we present more detailed discussion of the problem of scarcity and how it relates to conflict. The authors in this section argue that the current level of human activity is unsustain­able. They demonstrate that population growth in particular affects the natural world and can affect the social order and international …

The Fischer Black Hypothesis: Some Time-Series Evidence, Tony Caporale, Barbara Mckiernan

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We estimate an ARCH-M model to analyze the relationship between the conditional standard deviation of real gross national product (GNP) and its growth rate for the period 1871-1993. We find that variability significantly increases output growth rates. In addition, impulse response functions show that the effect of variability on growth rates is dynamic. These results provide evidence in favor of Black's (1987) business cycle hypothesis.

The Euro: Ready Or Not? A Retrospective On European Unification: Some Lessons For 1999, Joseph Santos

Economics Pamphlet Series (1985-2016)

On January 1, 1999, fifteen independent nation-states of Europe are set to relinquish their national currencies in favor of a single European monetary unit, called the euro. While the origins of the European Union (EU) (formerly referred to as the European Community) date back to the Marshall Plan, the inception of the euro occurred in February of 1992 with the passage of the Treaty on European Union, or Maastricht Treaty. Though the prospect of a European Monetary Union (EMU) has attracted many observers from the economics, finance, and business communities, the history of the EU, and its current plan to …

Explaining Long-Term Exchange Rate Behavior In The United States And Japan, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Antonopoulos, R. (1998, September). Explaining long-term exchange rate behavior in the United States and Japan (Working Paper No. 250). Jerome Levy Economics Institute.

Japanese U.S. Auto Transplant Production: An Analysis Of The Roles Of Vers And The Exchange Rate, Michael Cornstubble

University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics

Since their introduction in 1982, Japanese auto transplants in the U.S. have skyrocketed in production, now producing many more cars than are imported. This study incorporates new refinements and revisions to attempt to identify the main factors that are responsible for the introduction of Japanese auto transplants and their massive growth in production over the last 14 years. The author develops two hypotheses for theoretical analysis of the factors contributing to production decisions. The first is that the voluntary export restraints (VERs) imposed on the Japanese from 1981-1985 are responsible for bringing the transplants to the U.S. and for creating …

Winning The Marathon: A Reconsideration Of The Development Effects Of Neo-Classical Trade Practices, Peter Weylie, Jean-Pierre Guevremont

University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics

This paper focuses on the trading policies of developed nations, specifically import quotas, and their positive and negative effects on developing countries. We hope to show that the case is not as polar as was once believed and instead focus on how the current literature suggests that the real effects of free-trade are shrouded in nuance and circumstance. Our starting point will be an analysis of the fashionable neo-liberal trade theory and its impact on development, making special reference to the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA). We will then turn our attention to the shortcomings of the neo-liberal approach, and provide a …

Exchange Rates, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• [Author unknown]. (n.d.). Alternative theory of real exchange rate determination and empirical test for Greece based on Shaikh’s model [Dissertation excerpt].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, October 13). Cointegration results, tradable/non-tradable factor mobility, and large financial flows in Asia [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, November 12). Notes on trade and capital mobility [Unpublished notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Library.en1: Citation of Frenkel and Johnson (1976) on the monetary approach to the balance of payments [Unpublished typed excerpt].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, December 31). Exchange rates in orthodox economics: Dornbusch [Unpublished handwritten …

Xr Project, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, July 2). Rxr [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Godley, W. (1998, June 16). Godley’s trade sector equations and a glossary [Fax].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, June 12). U.S./OECD: Rxr (PPI), Rxr (export unit value), and Xr [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). International long-term interest rates [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). International short-term interest rates [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Japan long-term interest rate differentials [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). U.S. interest rate differentials [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, May 10). U.S./OECD: Rxr (PPI) and RULC …

Trade Amongst Growing Economies, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, July 2). Rxr [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Godley, W. (1998, June 16). Godley’s trade sector equations and a glossary [Fax].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, June 12). U.S./OECD: Rxr (PPI), Rxr (export unit value), and Xr [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). International long-term interest rates [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). International short-term interest rates [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Japan long-term interest rate differentials [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). U.S. interest rate differentials [Unpublished graph].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1998, May 10). U.S./OECD: Rxr …

Levy Presentation Outline Loose Papers, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Antonopoulos, R. (1998, June 17). Levy presentation outline [Unpublished outline].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Typed document excerpt discussing connections to macroeconomics, industrial policy, employment policy, economic unions, and the state of exchange-rate models (p. 5) [Unpublished typed manuscript excerpt].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Handwritten note with inequalities for RXR and RULC and a list including trade shares and interest-rate ratios [Unpublished handwritten note].