Exchange Rate Volatility and Growth in Emerging Europe

This paper analyses the in_uence of NEER and REER volatility on growth in a panel of six developing European countries. Two measures of volatility are employed (standard deviation and ARCH/GARCH models) and its in_uence on growth is tested both through a GLS and a GMM estimation. Moreover, given the properties of the time series used, both panel and individual cointegration are tested using the Pedroni and, re-spectively, the Johansen methodology.

The Impact of Community-Based Arts

Community-based arts is a topic of study that has emerged relatively recently yet does not have a very substantial body of literature surrounding it. What does exist covers many of the perspective benefits of community-based arts projects, as well as providing a critical analysis of their effectiveness as well as shortcomings. The goal of this research was to analyze the experiences of participants in the community-based research process, and what their insight on the practice is. Using a survey that was distributed to members of the community, this research was able to reaffirm many known benefits to community-based arts projects, as well as identify areas where the practice can be improved

AFM-CSLM microrheology of aggregated emulsions

The work in this thesis describes the structural and mechanical properties of weakly aggregated emulsion networks at a meso- and microscopic level, achieved by using a simultaneous combination of two experimental techniques: atomic force microscopy and confocal scanning laser microscopy

Teaching biodiversity with online identification tools from KeyToNature: a comparative study

This paper reports on new pedagogical approaches in teaching biodiversity by using online interactive identification tools developed by the European project KeyToNature. A comparative educational study was carried out on two classes of students, revealing the educational value of the interactive identification tools. A systematic evaluation of both the educational processes and the acquired skills was conducted, and the results are presented here

Tourism Cooperation Projects In The Cross Border Romanian-Ukrainian Maramures. Vectors For Sustainable Development?

The tourism cross border cooperation is an integrated model of this type of cooperation, as it is situated at a common point of several cross border fields of activity determined by social and economic phenomena, environmental processes, and territorial planning strategies but also by cultural manifestations. The tourism field of activity, within regional or local cross border relations, is the strongest binding element, where it can materialize very well due to the smaller extent of the area. While stating this, we bear in mind the fact that the tourism influence is complex at an economic, social but also cultural level – the affinity based on mutual heritage from the border areas. The tourism cross border cooperation field, involves mainly the productive use of the common tourism resources, the harmonization of transport and access infrastructure, but mostly accommodation, as well as a common policy concerning the organising of cultural events. The nowadays project regions overlap, in most cases, the ancient historical regions, which prove their functional aspect once more, also from the complex perspective that development projects imply. In the case of the Maramures Land, or Historical Maramures (which comprises as a cross border ethnographical and historical entity, a territory from the Maramures County – Romania and also from The Transcarpathia Region – Ukraine) the opportunity for gradual development of cross border tourism with Ukraine is granted mostly by the partnership for development projects, with funding from the financing authority of The Neighbourhood Programme Romania - Ukraine 2004-2006, PHARE Cross Border Cooperation, through the Romanian Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing starting with January 2007. This financing instrument evolved during 2009 into a new programme – ENPI (European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument). The importance of the financing funds for the cross border tourism cooperation, but not only that, is thus becoming overwhelming, taking into consideration the large amounts of money that needs to be used from establishing proper transport and accommodation infrastructure in a cross border area to the implementation of integrated cross border tourism marketing or maintaining quality cultural relations through specific events. The cross border partnerships for tourism development projects have insured, through the funds of the above mentioned PHARE CBC Programme, substantial tourism prospective research and integrated marketing for the Maramures (RO) - Transcarpathia (UA) region. : projects, Maramures, Romania, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, cross border cooperation, tourism, PHARE, ENPI CBC, sustainable development

Little Boar\u27s Head district annual report 2002-2003 August 22, 2003.

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Little Boar\u27s Head district annual report 1991-1992 August 15, 1992.

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Little Boar\u27s Head district annual report 1948-1949 August 31, 1949.

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Entrepreneurship, agency frictions and redistributive capital taxation

Motivated by the observation that among OECD countries redistribution is negatively correlated with entrepreneurial activity, we examine the implications of entrepreneurial financial frictions for optimal linear capital taxation, in a setting where the government is concerned with redistribution. By including financial frictions, we emphasize the effect of a new channel affecting the equity-efficiency trade-off of redistribution: taxes affect the allocative efficiency of capital and, ultimately, total factor productivity. We find that high tax rates are optimal, provided that they are applied to wealth, rather than risky capital. Under plausible parameter values, we find that the optimal tax on risky capital is lower than that on wealth, and roughly in line with current U.S. levels. This suggests welfare gains from taxing only wealth at a higher rate.Othe

Little Boar\u27s Head district annual report 1987-1988.

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