Should the UK Join the Euro Zone? Evidence from a Synthetic OCA Assessment

Based on optimal currency area theories, this paper applies the empirical methodology of structural VAR to revisit the question of whether UK should join or not the Euro zone. Correlations of effective exchange rates between UK and US on one side and between UK and its major European partners (Germany and France) on the other side are first estimated. Correlations between macro-structural shocks are then estimated and results of both approaches are combined to provide conclusions on the appropriateness of a floating regime of the British Pound or of the integration to the Euro zone. A dynamic analysis shows that UK structural evolution over the period 1970-2008 tends to favor the option of integration to the Euro zone. These results have to be qualified by taking into account the specific position of UK with London as a global financial center and political issues which dominate the debate.Sterling Pound, Euro, Optimal Currency Area

Un modèle de prévision des dentistes au Québec

Les dentistes de la province de Québec constituent une sous-population bien définie dont l’étude est devenue très importante pour une bonne planification. On a constaté que la mauvaise répartition des dentistes fait obstacle à la réalisation de la gratuité des soins dentaires. En effet, la plupart des dentistes ont tendance à s’établir dans les grands centres, tendance qui semble s’accentuer depuis les dix dernières années. Une étude de la population selon certaines caractéristiques socio-démographiques a amené l’auteur à diviser le Québec en huit régions homogènes à partir d’un regroupement des divisions de recensement.C'est à partir de ces huit régions qu’il a illustré l’évolution future de l’offre de soins en considérant le rapport dentistes/population. Il a donc fallu procéder à une projection du nombre des dentistes d’une part et de la population d’autre part à l’aide de deux modèles de projection multirégionale. La méthode de regroupement et les projections démographiques font maintenant partie intégrante de l’étude de l’offre de services dentaires au Québec

Agamben, G. (2015), Homo sacer, IV, 2 : L’usage des corps, Paris, Seuil, 393 p.

Compte rendu de l'ouvrage "Agamben, G. (2015), Homo sacer, IV, 2 : L’usage des corps, Paris, Seuil, 393 p.

Multiband Analog-to-Digital Conversion

The current trend in the world of digital communications is the design of versatile devices that may operate using several different communication standards in order to increase the number of locations for which a particular device may be used. The signal is quantized early on in the reciever path by Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), which allows the rest of the signal processing to be done by low complexity, low power digital circuits. For this reason, it is advantageous to create an architecture that can quantize different bandwidths at different frequencies to suit several different communication protocols. This thesis outlines the design of an architecture that uses multiple ADCs in parallel to quantize several different bandwidths of a wideband signal. A multirate filter bank is then applied to approximate perfect reconstruction of the wideband signal from its subband parts. This highly flexible architecture is able to quantize signals of varying bandwidths at a wide range of frequencies by using identical hardware in every channel, which also makes for a simple design. A prototype for the quantizer used in each channel, a frequency-selective fourth-order sigma-delta (CA ) ADC, was designed and fabricated in a 0.5 pm CMOS process. This device uses a switched-capacitor technique to implement the frequency selection in the front-end of the CA ADC in each channel. Running at a 5MHz sample rate, the device can select any of the first sixteen 156.25kHz wide bands for conversion. Testing results for this fabricated part are also presented

Alien Registration- Saucier, Elias (Eagle Lake, Aroostook County)

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US Intrafirm Trade: Sectoral, Country and Location Determinants in the 90s.

This paper studies the evolution and determinants of US interfirm trade between 1989-98. We will extend preview: similar econometric testing not only by using more recent data but also by considering inter-country differences In addition to inter-sectoral variation of interfirm trade. At the sectoral revet relevant factors appear to be technology intensity, the level of vertical integration, economies of scale and lh' Ie?eI of international production, as well as the impact of the geographic concentration of US parent firms. At the country level, the size of the market and some country specificities appear to favor interfirm trade while increasing levels of the tax rate on profits of th/ foreign country and economic distance disincentives this trade.

Business Advisory Council Scholars Research

The Business Advisory Council (BAC) Faculty Scholars research project on which I work is conducted under Dr. James R. Crockett. Dr. Crockett is a professor of auditing at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Dr. Crockett supplies court records of embezzlements committed across the state of Mississippi. The goal of the project is to break down and organize the public records for each case in order to identify internal control (i.e., policies and procedures designed to provide management with reasonable assurance that the company achieves its objectives and goals) problems. The sources were used to identify warnings signs (red flags), to identify internal control weaknesses, to analyze cases in terms of the fraud triangle (i.e., this includes three components: opportunity, pressure, and rationalization), and if possible to identify how the embezzlement was discovered and what incentives caused the person to commit the act