Is there a Common European Business Cycle? New Insights from a Frequency Domain Analysis

To assess the synchronization of business cycles in Europe we extract the cyclical component of industrial production in five European countries using the filter of Baxter and King (1999). The hypothesis of a joint business cycle is tested by using the frequency domain common cycle test suggested by Breitung and Candelon (2000). The common cycle hypothesis is clearly rejected for U.K. data whereas some weak evidence for a joint cyclical pattern is found for France, The Netherlands, Austria and Germany. Zusammenfassung Gibt es einen gemeinsamen europäischen Konjunkturzyklus? Neue Erkenntnisse durch eine Spektralanalyse Um die Synchronität der Konjunkturzyklen in Europa zu bewerten, wird die Zykluskomponente der Industrieproduktion in fünf europäischen Ländern identifiziert, indem der Baxter-King-Filter (1999) angewendet wird. Die Hypothese eines gemeinsamen Konjunkturzyklus wird durch einen Test auf einen gemeinsamen Zyklus im Frequenzbereich nach Breitung und Candelon (2000) überprüft. Ein gemeinsamer Konjunkturzyklus muss demnach für Großbritannien klar zurückgewiesen werden, wohingegen einige schwache Anzeichen für ein gemeinsames Konjunkturmuster für Frankreich, die Niederlande, Österreich und Deutschland gefunden werden konnten

The long-run behaviour of the terms of trade between primary commodities and manufactures : a panel data approach

This paper examines the Prebisch and Singer hypothesis using a panel of twenty-four commodity prices from 1900 to 2010. The modelling approach stems from the need to meet two key concerns: (i) the presence of cross-sectional dependence among commodity prices; and (ii) the identification of potential structural breaks. To address these concerns, the Hadri and Rao (Oxf Bull Econ Stat 70:245–269, 2008) test is employed. The findings suggest that all commodity prices exhibit a structural break whose location differs across series, and that support for the Prebisch and Singer hypothesis is mixed. Once the breaks are removed from the underlying series, the persistence of commodity price shocks is shorter than that obtained in other studies using alternative methodologies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Long-term complete responses after 131I-tositumomab therapy for relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

We present the long-term results of 18 chemotherapy relapsed indolent (N=12) or transformed (N=6) NHL patients of a phase II anti-CD20 131I-tositumomab (Bexxar®) therapy study. The biphasic therapy included two injections of 450 mg unlabelled antibody combined with 131I-tositumomab once as dosimetric and once as therapeutic activity delivering 75 or 65 cGy whole-body radiation dose to patients with normal or reduced platelet counts, respectively. Two patients were not treated due to disease progression during dosimetry. The overall response rate was 81% in the 16 patients treated, including 50% CR/CRu and 31% PR. Median progression free survival of the 16 patients was 22.5 months. Median overall survival has not been reached after a median observation of 48 months. Median PFS of complete responders (CR/CRu) has not been reached and will be greater than 51 months. Short-term side effects were mainly haematological and transient. Among the relevant long-term side effects, one patient previously treated with CHOP chemotherapy died from secondary myelodysplasia. Four patients developed HAMA. In conclusion, 131I-tositumomab RIT demonstrated durable responses especially in those patients who achieved a complete response. Six of eight CR/CRu are ongoing after 46–70 months

Les transformation des fa\ue7ades, quelques piste de lecture de Pomp\ue8i a Herculanum

nota di approfondimento al saggio di D. Scagliarini sulla "nascita" della facciata nella architettura domestica roman

Frontes. Le facciate nell'architettura e nell'urbanistica di Pompei e di Ercolano

Al pari di ogni altro edificio cittadino, anche le abitazioni concorrevano alla configurazione delle quinte stradali e alla caratterizzazione funzionale dei quartieri della citt\ue0 romana. La facciata, infatti, non era solo un elemento di separazione tra spazio pubblico e dimensione privata, ma costituiva l\u2019interfaccia di collegamento con la dimensione urbana, l\u2019elemento attraverso il quale l\u2019iniziativa privata entrava in dialogo diretto con il paesaggio cittadino e si integrava con le attivita\u300 svolte nella strada. Nonostante le sue significative implicazioni urbanistiche e architettoniche, lo studio delle facciate e\u300 stato uno dei temi d\u2019indagine maggiormente trascurati dalla letteratura, soprattutto a causa della qualita\u300 della documentazione archeologica, quasi sempre troppo povera di dati utili alla ricostruzione dell\u2019esterno delle abitazioni. Obiettivo di questo volume e\u300 indagare sotto una nuova luce forme e significati dell\u2019esterno delle abitazioni attraverso il caso di studio delle citta\u300 vesuviane, dove la conservazione delle superfici verticali consente di osservare un ambiente urbano sostanzialmente completo. Fondata su un repertorio di sessanta abitazioni, l\u2019analisi procede per gradi di approfondimento, dalla scomposizione negli elementi co- stitutivi dei prospetti alla visione d\u2019insieme, tracciando un percorso diacronico dall\u2019eta\u300 tardosannitica, epoca in cui il modello della casa \u201cad atrio\u201d diventa prevalente, all\u2019ultima fase di vita, segnata da un marcato rinnovamento delle forme dell\u2019abitare verso soluzioni piu\u300 intensive e razionali