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- Firm Investment And Financial Frictions
- This paper investigates the analytical and empirical linkages between firms' capital investment behavior and financial market frictions. The empirical approach constructs measures of own- and market-specific uncertainty from firms' daily stock returns and S&P 500 index returns along with a CAPM-based risk measure. The results indicate that even in the...
- White papers 2007-04-24
- Contractual Frictions And Global Sourcing
- This paper explains the model of international organization of production in order to accommodate varying degrees of contractual frictions. In particular, we allow the degree of contractibility to vary across inputs and countries. A continuum of firms with heterogeneous productivities decides whether to integrate or outsource the production of intermediate...
- White papers 2006-11-22
- Global Logistics Indicators, Supply Chain Metrics, And Bilateral Trade Patterns
- Past research into determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment in some cases. This paper focuses on logistics friction and draws...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data
- A large literature has shown that geographic frictions reduce trade, but has not clarified precisely why. This paper provides insights into why such frictions matter by examining which parts of trade these frictions reduces most. Using data that tracks manufacturers' shipments within the United States on an exceptionally fine grid,...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Investor Protection and Business Creation
- This paper studies the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of new firms in an equilibrium search model of private capital markets. In addition to search frictions, it examines contract frictions, specifically interim and ex post moral hazard problems stemming from entrepreneurs' possibilities...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Bank Lending, Credit Shocks, and the Transmission of Canadian Monetary Policy
- The authors use a dynamic general-equilibrium model to study the role financial friction play as a transmission mechanism of Canadian monetary policy, and to evaluate the real effects of exogenous credit shocks. Financial frictions, which are modelled, as spreads between deposit and loan interest rates, are assumed to depend on...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Credit Frictions and Sudden Stops in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises
- Financial frictions are a central element of most of the models that the literature on emerging markets crises has proposed for explaining the Sudden Stop phenomenon. To date, few studies have aimed to examine the quantitative implications of these models and to integrate them with an equilibrium business cycle framework...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Credit Frictions and Sudden Stops in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises
- Financial frictions are a central element of most of the models that the literature on emerging markets crises has proposed for explaining the 'Sudden Stop' phenomenon. To date, few studies have aimed to examine the quantitative implications of these models and to integrate them with an equilibrium business cycle framework...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Influence of Supporting Base Characteristics on Shrinkage-Induced Stresses in Concrete Pavements
- This paper presents an analytical model for prediction of shrinkage-induced stresses and displacements in concrete pavements due to the restraint of the supporting base. The model relies upon the interfacial friction stress transmitted between the slab and base as the fundamental mechanism of restraint provided by the base when concrete...
- White papers 2001-09-27
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- At last, a true innovation: Friction Forged knives from DiamondBlade hold their edge
- A short while back, I was invited to the Tejon Ranch in California to do a bit of wild pig hunting and the stars of this show were the DiamondBlade knives. For once, I found something truly new and innovative, not to mention an improvement on everything I have tried...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- Listen Up
- John Mellencamp, Life Death Love and Freedom *** 1/2 LIFE IN THE SERIOUS LANE There's no room for Jack and Diane, barn-burning dance tunes or Zippo-raising heartland anthems on this dead-serious Life force, one of Mellencamp's finest efforts to date. He's full of fire and purpose,...
- Articles 2008-07-15
- GigMaven Levels the Playing Field for Artists and Venues
- Newly Launched Web Service Enables Friction-Less Touring NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- GigMaven, a web-based service that enables musical artists to find and book gigs online, has announced the Beta launch of their site, available at http://www.gigmaven.com/. With over five hundred artists already signed on...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- Morocco steps up claims to Spanish enclaves: reports
- MADRID AFP — Morocco continued to press its claims over the disputed Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla during Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's visit this week, Spanish newspapers reported Saturday. El Mundo said Morocco had hardened its position over the two enclaves on Morocco's northern coast,...
- Articles 2008-07-12
- Growth in the North American Friction Parts Aftermarket Driven by Increasing Sales of Higher-priced Components
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Manufacturers in the North American brake system parts aftermarket have launched new product lines to capture growth in the ceramic friction parts segment. The utilization of ceramic friction as standard equipment on many new vehicle models drives this growth. However, high gas prices will restrain demand...
- Articles 2008-07-10
- St. Jude Medical Announces CE Mark Approval and European Launch of HydroSteer Guidewire Line with Hydrophilic Coating
- ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) today announced European CE Mark approval and European launch of its line of HydroSteer[TM] Hydrophilic-Coated Nitinol Guidewires. The HydroSteer line of guidewires features a lubricious hydrophilic coating which becomes slippery when wet, thereby reducing friction and enabling physicians to...
- Articles 2008-07-10
- Argentine military to protect environment, Antarctica
- BUENOS AIRES AFP — Argentina's military is to take on protecting the environment and interests in Antarctica under a shake-up being proposed by President Cristina Kirchner. The reform aims to assert Argentina's sovereignty over its natural resources, but could also create friction as competition intensifies between countries looking...
- Articles 2008-07-08
- RADI Medical Systems Launches Next Generation PressureWire® Certus
- UPPSALA, Sweden, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RADI Medical Systems today announced improvements to their latest generation pressure sensing guide wire, PressureWireR Certus, which will begin shipments immediately. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080708/311790 ) The latest generation of the PressureWireR Certus features a new ergonomically designed proximal connector which...
- Articles 2008-07-08
- Ice dam to break prematurely on Argentine glacier
- BUENOS AIRES AFP — A huge ice dam on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier will break apart for the first time in the southern hemisphere winter, likely as a result of global warming, scientists and environmentalists said Monday. The 60-meter yard high wall of ice holding back a portion...
- Articles 2008-07-07
- Carlisle Companies Will Announce 2nd Quarter 2008 Earnings on July 22
- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carlisle Companies Incorporated (NYSE:CSL) will release second quarter 2008 earnings on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 before the market opens. A conference call to discuss the results will be held the same day at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. This conference call will be webcast live in a listen-only mode...
- Articles 2008-07-02
- Swedish vehicle solutions Haldex AB divests disc brake friction material business in the US
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-1 July 2008-Swedish vehicle solutions Haldex AB divests disc brake friction material business in the USC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish vehicle solutions developer and manufacturer Haldex AB (OMX Stockholm: HLDX) announced on Monday (30 June) that it has agreed to sell its disc brake friction...
- Articles 2008-07-01
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