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Public Health and the Public Agenda
Thurm, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999
[...]In the time that I have been at Health andHuman Services, one of the things I have learned is thatthe public health profession has quite a lot to teach policymakers.That is something many New Yorkers learnedearlier this decade when Dr. Margaret Hamburg was NewYork City’s health...
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Issues in Financial Institution Capital in Emerging Market Economies
Frankel, Allen B. - United States / Board of Governors of the Federal … - 1998
For the past twenty years, Asia has been regarded as aneconomic success story. The recent economic turmoil in theregion, however, has prompted a reevaluation of the longtermsustainability of the dynamic economic performance.Undoubtedly, lessons will be drawn from the Asian experience—lessons...
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Policy Rules and Targets: Framing the Central Banker’s Problem
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1998
Central bank policymakers are not primarilyrandom number generators.1 Reading boththe financial press and the work of … importance to each Federal OpenMarket Committee policy decision. Academic work on theimpact of central bank policy gives a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870097
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Does Consumer Confidence Forecast Household Expenditure? A Sentiment Index Horse Race
Bram, Jason; Ludvigson, Sydney C. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998
[...]This study is the first formal investigation ofconsumer attitudes that compares the forecasting power ofthe University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentimentand the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index.We begin with a background analysis of structural differencesbetween the...
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Vertical Specialization and the Changing Nature of World Trade
Hummels, David; Rapoport, Dana; Yi, Kei-Mu - Graduate School of Business <Chicago, Ill.>; Federal …; … - 1998
withthe United States, electronics trade between Japan andAsia, and trade involving Opel’s subsidiary in Spain—allow us to … specialization has increased sharply in recentyears: in the Japan-Asia electronics trade, for example, itincreased 900 percent …
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Japan – Bedeutender Partner der hessischen Wirtschaft
Frings, Kerstin - Hessen / Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und … - 2008
Intensive und sich dynamisch entwickelnde Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen beeinflussenWachstum und Wohlstand der Exportnation Deutschland und des besondersinternational ausgerichteten Wirtschaftsstandorts Hessen. Attraktive Wirtschaftsstandorteziehen internationale Investoren an, bieten...
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Recent Banking Sector Reforms in Japan
Nakaso, Hiroshi - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999
failedbank without necessarily finding a sound receiving bank beforehand. LTCB was nationalized under the FinancialReconstruction … Deposit Insurance Corporation (DIC)in order to maintain the franchise value of the bank and toclean up its balance sheet …. Throughout the temporarynationalization, until a sound receiving financial institutionis found, the bank continues to provide its …
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The formation of “Modern” Economics: Engineering and Ideology
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...
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Development History
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper discusses some aspects of the changing relationship between thestudy of economic history and development economics. Forty years ago thesubjects seemed to be quite closely linked in the sense that senior figuresstraddled both areas, the development history of the advanced countries...
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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
The task of economic planning in the new nation of Nigeria in theearly 1960s tested the limits of economic technologies: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions of the problembeset not only the Nigerian politicians...
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