BOOK REVIEW OF THE BOURNE BETRAYAL WRITTEN BY ERIC VAN LUSTBADER

The purposes of this final project is to study about book review of The Bourne Betrayal novel book. The Bourne Betrayal is the fifth book of Jason Bourne novel series who is the original author Robert Ludlum and continued by Eric Van Lustbader. The genre of this book is thriller-action and adventure. In this final project I will discuss about the profile of the author of The Bourne Betrayal novel book, the summary of the book, the strengths and the weaknesses. This book review may help for people who is have a big interest of Jason Bourne story

ESTIMATING CORE INFLATION IN NORWAY

Central banks are continually considering the problem of how to identify which price changes should be considered permanent and which entirely temporary. Indeed, due to the delayed effect that monetary policy uses to put its choices into action, a wrong valuation of the type of inflation can prove extremely costly for the economy and does not produce the desired results. Since price indexes (as CPI) deliver a distorted picture of underlying inflation, it is necessary to devise a more appropriate target for monetary policy. The need to find a good measure for the latter variable becomes more marked when the central bank adopts price stability as the overriding aim of monetary policy. In this paper we apply the Quah and Vahey (1995) methodology to Norway, oil producing OECD country, and derive measures of core inflation by imposing restrictions from economic theory within the context of a multivariate econometric analysis. To estimate long-term movements of inflation, we present two models that enable the distinction between core and non-core inflation and also between domestic and imported inflation. We conclude that in all the models presented core inflation is a �prime mover� of inflation.Core inflation, Monetary Policy, Norway

A longitudinal gauge degree of freedom and the Pais Uhlenbeck field

We show that a longitudinal gauge degree of freedom for a vector field is equivalent to a Pais-Uhlenbeck scalar field. With the help of this equivalence, we can determine natural interactions of this field with scalars and fermions. Since the theory has a global U(1) symmetry, we have the usual conserved current of the charged fields, thanks to which the dynamics of the scalar field is not modified by the interactions. We use this fact to consistently quantize the theory even in the presence of interactions. We argue that such a degree of freedom can only be excited by gravitational effects like the inflationary era of the early universe and may play the role of dark energy in the form of an effective cosmological constant whose value is linked to the inflation scale.Comment: 20 pages, no figures. Minor changes and comments added to match the accepted version in JHE

CMB-lensing beyond the leading order: temperature and polarization anisotropies

We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies. We consider all the effects beyond the leading order: post-Born corrections, LSS corrections and, for the polarization anisotropies, the correction due to the rotation of the polarization direction between the emission at the source and the detection at the observer. We show that the full next-to-leading order correction to the B-mode polarization is not negligible on small scales and is dominated by the contribution from the rotation, this is a new effect not taken in account in previous works. Considering vanishing primordial gravitational waves, the B-mode correction due to rotation is comparable to cosmic variance for $\ell \gtrsim 3500$, in contrast to all other spectra where the corrections are always below that threshold for a single multipole. Moreover, the sum of all the effects is larger than cosmic variance at high multipoles, showing that higher-order lensing corrections to B-mode polarization are in principle detectable.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures. New results about the signal-to-noise amplitude for next-to-leading order corrections, further clarifications about the polarization rotation and references added. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review