Oil price shocks and inflation risk

Oil price shocks appear to have only transitory effects on headline inflation and virtually no impact on measures of underlying trend inflation.Petroleum products - Prices ; Inflation (Finance)

RMB appreciation and U.S. inflation risk

If oil prices continue to rise and the RMB continues to appreciate, the U.S. inflation rate may increase at a faster pace in the near future. And this would have an unwelcome impact on consumers’ wallets.Inflation (Finance) ; Foreign exchange rates - China

Local housing crisis is similar to nation's

District OverviewHousing ; Housing - Prices ; Federal Reserve District, 8th

The mismatch between job openings and job seekers

Today's high unemployment rate is often linked to a structural imbalance—a mismatch between the skills and location required to fill vacant jobs and the skills and geographical preferences of the unemployed. But the evidence downplays the role of this mismatch.Unemployment ; Labor market

The Impact of Labor Contract Law (FLA Stakeholder Forum PowerPoint Presentation)

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Chen_Mingyu_PPT.pdf: 73 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

JPEG Quantized Coefficient Recovery via DCT Domain Spatial-Frequential Transformer

JPEG compression adopts the quantization of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients for effective bit-rate reduction, whilst the quantization could lead to a significant loss of important image details. Recovering compressed JPEG images in the frequency domain has attracted more and more attention recently, in addition to numerous restoration approaches developed in the pixel domain. However, the current DCT domain methods typically suffer from limited effectiveness in handling a wide range of compression quality factors, or fall short in recovering sparse quantized coefficients and the components across different colorspace. To address these challenges, we propose a DCT domain spatial-frequential Transformer, named as DCTransformer. Specifically, a dual-branch architecture is designed to capture both spatial and frequential correlations within the collocated DCT coefficients. Moreover, we incorporate the operation of quantization matrix embedding, which effectively allows our single model to handle a wide range of quality factors, and a luminance-chrominance alignment head that produces a unified feature map to align different-sized luminance and chrominance components. Our proposed DCTransformer outperforms the current state-of-the-art JPEG artifact removal techniques, as demonstrated by our extensive experiments.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure