Break in the Mean and Persistence of Inflation: A Sectoral Analysis of French CPI

This paper uses disaggregated CPI time series to show that a break in the mean of French inflation occurred in the mid-eighties and that the 1983 monetary policy shift mostly accounted for it. CPI average yearly growth declined from nearly 11% before the break date (May 1985) to 2.1% after. No other break in the 1973-2004 sample period can be found. Controlling for this mean break, both aggregate and sectoral inflation persistence are stable and low, with the unit root lying far in the tail of the persistence estimates. However, persistence differs dramatically across sectors. Finally, the duration between two price changes (at the firm level) appears positively related with inflation persistence (at the aggregate level)

Maintaining your resilience

The purpose of this chapter is to provide various ideas for relaxing and letting go of the tension from work. Although these strategies may be familiar, when nurses are actively experiencing stress from high-pressure jobs—as a new graduate trying to acculturate to the new practice setting, for example—they may forget to implement them. Ruminating about what happened that day at work and taking shortcuts such as eating fast food and watching television, instead of a healthy meal and exercising, is all too easy. However, nurses must remember that work is only one aspect of life, all-consuming although that work may seem at times. To be a success in nursing, a nurse must be a success in life. The ideas in this chapter will help nurses to remember that life is much more than work. Taking time for some of the suggested activities, or others that are similarly relaxing and fun, is essential to make sense of life when working in a high pressure environment. This chapter presents some examples of how individuals might react under stress and then discusses how these individuals might react in a more self-affirming way. The chapter also presents coping strategies from the literature that are generally helpful in dealing with stress

Construction de la structure de donnees COOR des coordonnees des noeuds Module CORNOE. Club MODULEF. Version 3.2

SIGLEAvailable from CEN Saclay, Service de Documentation, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc

Infinitary relations

SIGLEAvailable from CEN Saclay, Service de Documentation, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc

Changes in statistical models: various approaches in automatic control and statistics

Summary in EnglishAvailable from CEN Saclay, Service de Documentation, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex (France) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueSIGLEFRFranc

On the computation of an arch dam by the thin shell theory and finite element method

SIGLEAvailable from CEN Saclay, Service de Documentation, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc

Calcul des contraintes dans les materiaux composites

SIGLECNRS-CDST / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc