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International Interest-Rate and Price-Level Linkages Under Flexible Exchange Rates: A Review of Recent Evidence
In an open economy, the scope for activist stabilization policy depends on the nature of the lincages between domestic and international markets for goods and assets. Tgo
Aggregate agricultural supply response in developing countries : a survey of selected issues
The authors review several studies of the aggregate agricultural supply response. Using both economic and econometric reasons, they argue that time series estimation typically generates a downward-biased estimate of the response to a credible reform. Even though time series estimates can provide an accurate picture of past behavoiral relations, they do not provide an adequate basis for forecasting the impact of policy reform. This is especially true in developing countries, where policy reforms involve large changes and have included agricultural price reform, industrial trade liberalization, financial sector reform, and macroeconomic stabilization. Under those circumstances, parameters values obtained under the former policy regime have little relevance in the new regime. The authors also argue that investment in public goods should be viewed as complementary to, not competitive with, price policy. They claim that to select the policy with the biggest impact on output makes no sense. They provide what they consider to be better criteria for choosing the best from alternative policies.Environmental Economics&Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access,Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Inequality
High Grading Standards Improve Student Performance
Allgemeinbildende Schule, Schulpolitik, Qualifikation, Vereinigte Staaten, General schooling, School policy, Occupational qualification, United States
Growth and Equity Effects of Agricultural Marketing Efficiency Gains in India
Agriculture is the largest source of employment in India, and food accounts for about half of consumer expenditures. Moving agricultural products from the farm to consumers more efficiently could result in large gains to producers, consumers, and India’s overall economy. This analysis uses a computable general equilibrium model with agricultural commodity detail and households disaggregated by rural, urban, and income class to study the potential impacts of reforms that achieve efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient agricultural marketing generates economywide gains in output and wages, raises agricultural producer prices, reduces consumer food prices, and increases private consumption, particularly by low-income households. These gains could help to offset some of the medium-term adjustment costs for some commodity markets and households associated with reducing agricultural subsidies and tariffs.India, agriculture, policy reform, marketing efficiency, tariffs, subsidies, households, computable general equilibrium model., Agricultural and Food Policy, Agricultural Finance, Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade, Marketing,
The Magellanic Bridge: The Nearest Purely Tidal Stellar Population
We report on observations of the stellar populations in twelve fields
spanning the region between the Magellanic Clouds, made with the Mosaic-II
camera on the 4-meter telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
The two main goals of the observations are to characterize the young stellar
population (which presumably formed in situ in the Bridge and therefore
represents the nearest stellar population formed from tidal debris), and to
search for an older stellar component (which would have been stripped from
either Cloud as stars, by the same tidal forces which formed the gaseous
Bridge). We determine the star-formation history of the young inter-Cloud
population, which provides a constraint on the timing of the gravitational
interaction which formed the Bridge. We do not detect an older stellar
population belonging to the Bridge in any of our fields, implying that the
material that was stripped from the Clouds to form the Magellanic Bridge was
very nearly a pure gas.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures. Accepted to Ap
The lexicographic treatment of the demonstrative copulative in Sesotho sa Leboa: an exercise in multiple cross-referencing
Study of CPV in b and charm systems at LHCb
The LHCb experiment is a single-arm spectrometer designed to
pursue an extensive study of CP violation in b and charm systems. In this contribution, three recent measurements are presented. First, the difference between CP asymmetries of D0 → K−K+ and D0 → π−π+ decays using 0.6 pb−1 of 2011
data is detailled. Then an important milestones towards the measurement of the γ angle is presented with the study of B
± → DK ± decays using 1 fb−1. Third, the measurement of the CP-violating phase φs in B0s → J/ψφ and B0s → J/ψf0 is
reported
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