diverse economic issues. To obtain a complete list of RES publications and read or download them please visit our web site at … not only the economic stakes of power holders, but also, their political stakes, somewhat along the lines of work by … growth in Latin America. This research extends Taylor’s work by further exploring the role of institutions in performance …

alliance brands suggests that branding at the corporate level has more in common with strategic planning than with marketing … corporate brands (Balmer 1995) but were at one time simply known as “company brands” (King 1991,Aaker 2000). Curiously …. (a) Character At the core of a corporate brand/corporate brand management is an explicit covenant between an organization …

, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Ste- fano Trento, Achim Wambach, Philipp Weinschenk, Elmar Wolfstetter, and seminar participants at … in oligopoly (e.g. Gal-Or, 1986, and Shapiro, 1986), and particularly recent work on strategic information sharing (Okuno … the leaked technology at no additional cost. To make the problem interesting, I assume that imitation is more likely under …

-1392 Fax (61) 414-3165 Number printed: 450 copies The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not reflect … those of the Banco Central or its members. Although these Working Papers often represent preliminary work, citation of … such estimators measure aggregate retail price movements more efficiently than the more standard mean-measures at high …

onnen, also vor allem die Attraktivit at des Unternehmens, des Kar- riereplans und der Produkte. Dabei werden gute … mit ihrem weit links liegenden Modalwert und der rechsseitigen Ab achung gew ahlt werden, um dem in der Realit at …, die sich z.B. beru ich ver andern wollen. Abh angig von der Attraktivit at des Bonusplans kann man darum annehmen, dass ma …

, Michael Woodford, participants in conferences at the Bank of England and Insead and in the NBER Summer Institute, and the … been examined to what extent simple instrument rules are good empirical descriptions of central-bank behavior (see, for … Governor Yellen, in a discussion of inflation targeting at the FOMC meeting in January, 1995, [33, p. 43—44], seems to prefer a …

, Michael Woodford, participants in conferences at the Bank of England and Insead and in the NBER Summer Institute, and the … been examined to what extent simple instrument rules are good empirical descriptions of central-bank behavior (see, for … Governor Yellen, in a discussion of inflation targeting at the FOMC meeting in January, 1995, [33, p. 43—44], seems to prefer a …

, GREMAQ and IDEI, Place Anatole France, F-31042 Toulouse Cedex 9, France, Email: florens@cict.fr. 2Universit¨at Heidelberg …-la-Neuve, Belgium, vanbellegem@stat.ucl.ac.be. We like to thank X. Chen, C. De Mol, J. Horowitz for helpful discussions. This work was … assumptions. One of these assumptions is given by the so-called source condition which measure how ill- posed is the problem at …

time series with the possibility of a structural break, the assumption of at most one break date is unrealistic and … restrictive. Bai and Perron (1998) propose a test for multiple structural breaks at unknown dates using the dou- ble maximum test … cointegration in the presence of a possible regime shift. 3 Gregory and Hansen (1996b) extend this work, by permitting a trend …

that, in some circumstances at least, people behave as though their actions are causal even when they know them to be … “predestination”, those who are to be saved have been chosen by God at the beginning of time, and nothing that one can do will lead to … evidence of having been chosen by engaging in acts of piety, devotion to duty, hard work and self denial. According to Max …