... of snow Mountain streams, fed by the melting snow, are common throughout the area They drain into the Nimrodel, the Limlight, andthe Entwash on the east side, andthe Glanduin, the Gwathlú, and ... The other two entrances are high up the slope of the peak; one to the northeast and one to the west The northeastern entrance is the highest entrance and is primarily an escape route, since the ... in the area where the crowd stands and behind in the hills above the temple On these days, the patrols are doubled and range further out and up into the hills Power & Politics in Dunland: The...
... to other banks complicit in the scheme, and then by pre-agreement rolling the loans back into Anglo Irish immediately after the publication of the annual accounts It is not yet clear whether the ... nature of the errors, andthe types of pernicious political influences, differ substantially in the two cases Another notable distinction is in the nature of the regulatory policy errors in the two ... was the relatively low interest rates following Ireland admission to the Euro currency union The effect of the reduction in nominal interest rates was further compounded by Ireland’s high economic...
... closed economy and then in an open economy, and explores financing and intermediation patterns in the run-up to, and during, the crisis The discussion focuses largely on identities and on the risk ... these issues economy; in New Keynesian models it is an equilibrium phenomenon that serves no such purpose Second, they differ with respect to the source of the wedge between the market andthe ... level of the natural interest rate and, even if they did, they have no incentive to set the market rate there In modern New Keynesian frameworks the source of the wedge is nominal rigidities, notably...
... for the calf, and not for man certainly not after the coming of the molars It TheNo Breakfast Plan andthe Fasting-Cure, by 16 is not a food that will start the saliva in case of hunger, as the ... whether about the roots in the mouth, or in the depths of the organs; andthe aches, the pains of the living, andthe agonies of the dying are only evidences of the earnestness and persistence ... could not but be better for the forenoon services if the sick spell were omitted The fact was, the breakfast would soon be rejected, and then the hours of rest would enable the stomach to handle the...
... knots, while you cannot retaliate, because there is no knot which their advertising cannot cut for them Yesterday you lost a customer—today they took one—tomorrow they'll get another You cannot ... wheatfields The soil itself was full of possibilities What the land needed was water In time there came farmers who knew that they could not expect the streams to come to them, and so they dug ditches and ... proportion to the merit of the subject advertised andthe ability with which the advertising is done There are two great obstacles to advertising profit, and both of them arise from ignorance of the real...
... processes and their economic impact adjusts automatically to the cycle Given the size of the public sector, their stabilising impact on the economy is relatively large in the euro area Girouard and André ... rates, for economic growth, for the stability of the euro area and, therefore, not least for the monetary policy of the European Central Bank Jürgen Stark Member of the Executive Board andthe Governing ... negative Therefore, under the assumption that the implicit interest rate on government debt andthe nominal growth rate of the economy are given or exogenously determined, the primary balance is the...
... (2005), Heinemann and Schüller (2002), Sander and Kleimeier (2004)) We then test the stability of the baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction of the euro and assess whether more general ... what the latter should be for the different retail markets that we cover.1 We then test the stability of the baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction of the euro and assess whether ... -2.44 48 1.94 0.00 0.52 Note: AA, BB and CC refer to the parameters with the same notation in equation [6'], MMR and BR to the coefficients alpha and beta in [6], and ECC to the error correction...
... 1988 andthe second the period from 1988 to 1998 Tables 1a and 1b show, for the total period and for each of the two cycles, the cross-correlation between retail bank interest rates andthe MMR ... Paper No 40 l November 2000 term debt would experience a fall in their profits In theory, the former will raise their consumption andthe latter will decrease their investment only if they are ... in loan and deposit markets: An econometric application to the Netherlands, De Economist No 143, pp 353-66 26 ECB Working Paper No 40 l November 2000 Appendix: Summary presentation of the panel...
... of the monetary policy shocks andthe monetary policy decisions of the ECB (and the US Federal Reserve) 13 13 14 16 16 Has the daily pattern of the variance of these shocks changed with the announcements ... in the light of their implications for the monetary policy mandate Given that the outcome of the process of mapping all the information on the state andthe functioning of the economy (which is ... both, the euro area andthe US, the series show cointegration andthe βj can be accepted to be equal to one In this set up, the ε jt+k represent, not only the spread but also the shock to the information...
... romanticism on the one side and ascending modernism on the other The romantic poet andthe bourgeois novelist are both present in Hugo, and they struggle for space in his discourse The 'illumination' ... be the most important and least theorized, one could certainly argue that the distinctive- ness of the knowledge-based economy is that in it knowledge has become production and vice versa and ... locates the (relative) disappearance of foreign novels to the British the late 1820s In the first instance, literary market in the 1790s and is due to the negative impact of the French revolution, and...
... and Austria and Germany on the other obstructed the functioning of the international monetary system The data in table 3.2 suggest that the Netherlands and Switzerland, too, did not recycle the ... offset the outflow of gold and thereby contain the consequences of the banking crisis for the ‘real economy’ There was a discretionary limit to the scope of the automatic working of the gold standard ... similarities and differences, both in the scale and nature of the crises and in the central banks’ policy response The timing of the banking crisis in relation to the downturn in the real economy was...
... compares the biases in the means and standard deviations of output and inflation 28 ECB • Working Paper No 218 • March 2003 gaps under the linear and nonlinar rules for the Marshallian k, denoted ... expectations and nominal rigidities that covers the three largest economies, the United States, the euro area and Japan We recognize the zero-interest-rate bound explicitly in the analysis and use ... PAPER NO 218 THE ZERO-INTEREST-RATE BOUND ANDTHE ROLE OF THE EXCHANGE RATE FOR MONETARY POLICY IN JAPAN * BY GÜNTER COENEN AND VOLKER WIELAND ** MARCH 2003 * Prepared for the “Conference on the...
... (2005), Heinemann and Schüller (2002), Sander and Kleimeier (2004)) We then test the stability of the baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction of the euro and assess whether more general ... what the latter should be for the different retail markets that we cover.1 We then test the stability of the baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction of the euro and assess whether ... -2.44 48 1.94 0.00 0.52 Note: AA, BB and CC refer to the parameters with the same notation in equation [6'], MMR and BR to the coefficients alpha and beta in [6], and ECC to the error correction...
... stronger in the euro area compared to the US and Germany The null hypothesis that the coecients of the ination terms, b (L), sum to one in the Phillips curve is not rejected by the data 12 The BFGS ... output yt , the output gap yt , the actual andthe natural real rate andthe real rate gap (rt , rt and rt ) and ination t A notable feature of the reported statistics is that the correlation ... of the economy Thus, the estimate of the natural real interest rate is time-varying and related to long-term developments in the real characteristics of the economy, consistent with economic theory...
... inflation and inflation target Standard deviation of cost-push, demand and money demand shocks Standard deviation of noise of aggregate demand and cost-push shocks Standard deviation of money demand ... Series No 967 November 2008 Gerlach, S (2004) The two pillars of the European Central Bank Economic Policy, 40:389– 439 Goodfriend, M and King, R G (1997) The new neoclassical synthesis andthe ... models In these models changes in the nominal interest rate influence the real interest rate due to the presence of price rigidities; the real interest rate determines the level of output; andthe gap...
... ‘I have the reports in front of me now, sir The sentry outride the house heard the sounds of struggle, and ran towards the French windows The sentry inside the house also heard the noise and ran ... as the resistance are criminals They are enemies of the Daleks You will find and destroy them.’ The Controller sighed It was always the same: the flat, toneless command to the impossible The ... through the study door Except for Sir Reginald himself, the study was empty.’ There was a further outburst on the other end of the ’phone The Brigadier replied, No, sir, I was not proposing to ignore...
... chips They want them now, because now is where they live Yet somehow mothers and fathers believe that if only they could convey the logic of their decisions, their young children would understand ... So during the weekends, say, when both mothers and fathers are home together, it doesn’t look to the mothers like their husbands are evenly sharing the load It looks like their husbands are doing ... experienced as a father,” recalls Gilbert “Boredom Throwing the ball back and forth and back and forth and back and forth The endless repetition, the can-you-do-it-again, the can-you-readthe-same-story-one-more-time...
... Plateau, and Great Basin Wherever possible, the book expands inferences beyond the mountains themselves to the lowland regions that surround them and form the broader context within which the mountains ... Paleoindian records: the Plains to the east andthe Colorado Plateau and Great Basin to the west Paradoxically, given their likely archaeological significance, theSouthern Rockies have been the subject ... of use of the Rockies and typology distribution correlates 16 1.2 Extent of use and expected raw material selection in theSouthern Rockies 18 1.3 Extent of use of theSouthern Rockies and expected...