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Currency Bloc Formation as a Dynamic Process Based on Trade Network Externalities
This paper builds a dynamic stochastic model-based on network externalities operating through trade channels-to explain the emergence of currency blocs, and specifically, why some countries join a currency union earlier than others. The paper develops and formalizes the intuition that currency bloc formation is path dependent, and that countries join...
Tags: IMF, Network, Currency, Externality, Networking
White papers 2004-11-01
Key Lebanon bloc threatens to quit cabinet line-up talks
BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's ruling parliamentary bloc on Wednesday threatened to walk out of talks aimed at forming a national unity government, an official from the Future Bloc told AFP. The warning came as Prime Minister Fuad Siniora continued efforts to form a new government after a deal last...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, complication, Government, Lebanon, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-06-04
THE MAJORITY OF RUSSIANS STILL CONSIDER NATO ANAGGRESSIVE MILITARY BLOC
A&G Information Services 12-30-2002 THE MAJORITY OF RUSSIANS STILL CONSIDER NATO ANAGGRESSIVE MILITARY BLOC ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, DEC 29, 2002 (A&G News via COMTEX) -- In thecourse of a survey held by the "Pulic Opinion&qu A&G Information Services ...
Tags: NATO
Research articles 2002-12-30
THE MAJORITY OF RUSSIANS STILL CONSIDER NATO ANAGGRESSIVE MILITARY BLOC
A&G Information Services 01-02-2003 THE MAJORITY OF RUSSIANS STILL CONSIDER NATO ANAGGRESSIVE MILITARY BLOC ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, DEC 29, 2002 (A&G News via COMTEX) -- In thecourse of a survey held by the "Pulic Opinion&qu A&G Information Services ...
Tags: NATO
Research articles 2003-01-02
EGYPT: CONGRESS OF 15-NATIONS' BLOC CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
According to Al-Ayam newspaper, the 5th Congress of the 15-Nations' Bloc Federation of Chambers of Commerce took place in the middle of June 2000 in Cairo. The newspaper notes that the following individuals attended the event: Federation Secretary-Ge According to Al-Ayam newspaper, the 5th Congress of...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-01-10
MOLDOVA: MOLDOVAN CENTRIST PARTIES FORM ELECTORAL BLOC.(Brief Article)
Leaders of the Democratic Party of Moldova, the Party of Revival and Conciliation, and the Party of Democratic Forces signed an agreement in Chisinau on 27 April on setting up an electoral bloc, Infotag reported. They said this is "a strategic p Leaders of the Democratic...
Tags: Democratic Party
Research articles 2000-04-30
Sadr bloc ends Iraq parliament boycott
BAGHDAD AFP — The parliamentary bloc loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ended its boycott of the Iraqi legislature on Tuesday after quitting the assembly in June in protest at the bombing of a revered shrine. "The Sadr party hereby announces that its suspension of membership in parliament...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, Government, Iraq, reconciliation, SECURITY, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-07-17
Iraqi PM accuses Sunni bloc of stalling progress
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq's beleaguered government on Friday accused the country's largest Sunni political bloc, which has withdrawn from the ruling coalition, of stalling moves towards national reconciliation. In a reaction likely to further poison relations with the Sunni ministers boycotting Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, government spokesman...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-07-27
Sadr group to pull out of Iraq's ruling Shiite bloc
NAJAF, Iraq AFP — The movement of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday it would withdraw from the Shiite bloc that leads the Iraqi government, in a new blow to the faltering political process. "The Sadr bloc will hold a press conference in Najaf this evening where...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, alliance, Government, Iraq, minister, Strategy
Research articles 2007-09-15
Sunni bloc boycotts Iraq parliament after crackdown on leader
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq's main Sunni bloc pulled out of parliament on Saturday in protest at a crackdown on their leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, throwing the country's political process into new turmoil. "We announce our boycott of the parliament until Adnan al-Dulaimi returns to the assembly today or tomorrow," Abdul...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, car, crackdown, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-12-01
Globalization and Economic Freedom Lead to Price Stability and Growth in Former Soviet Bloc, According to Dallas Fed's Economic Letter
To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: James Hoard of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, +1-214- 922-5307, or james.hoard@dal.frb.org DALLAS, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Ex-Soviet bloc countries with freer economies are growing faster than their counterparts with unfree economies, according to the February issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Economic Letter. In...
Tags: Dallas, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Globalization, Investment, Strategy
Research articles 2007-02-28
SPO: EU sports ministers debate bloc s anti drugs role
AAP Sports News Australia 05-11-2000 SPO: EU sports ministers debate bloc s anti drugs role LISBON, May 10 Reuters - Sports Ministers from the 15 European Union EU countries debated today what role the bloc should play in the new...
Tags: International Olympic Committee
Research articles 2000-05-11
McD fills foreign post for Eastern Bloc drive - McDonald's Corp
McD fills foreign post for Eastern Bloc drive
Tags: McDonald's Corp.
Research articles 1987-05-11
Russia's Putin once again heads ex-Soviet bloc
MOSCOW AFP — President Vladimir Putin took over once again as head of the CIS ex-Soviet bloc at a summit in the Kazakh capital Astana, the Interfax news agency reported. Russian leaders have traditionally headed the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose grouping of 12 former Soviet republics, since...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, leader, Leadership, Moscow, president, Russia, summit
Research articles 2004-09-16
The Legacy of the Soviet Bloc. (book review)
Zacek, Jane Shapiro, and Ilpyong J. Kim, eds. The Legacy of the Soviet Bloc Gainesville: University Press of Florida 280 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1475-1 Publication Date: May 1997 This collection brings together useful analytical...
Tags: Cohen, Columbia University, essay, Government
Research articles 1999-01-01
Grandparents form political bloc ahead of Nov. 2 vote
WASHINGTON AFP — Candidates for the White House now have yet another potentially influential bloc of voters to court, with the founding of a political interest group for grandpas and grandmas. The new group GrannyVoter.org said it would hold an official press conference announcing its unveiling on Tuesday. The...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET
Research articles 2004-10-24
South American leaders launch 12-nation bloc
CUSCO, Peru AFP — South American leaders launched an ambitious project here to integrate the 361-million-people-strong continent into a 12-nation economic and political bloc dubbed the South American Community of Nations. Twelve nations signed the Cusco Declaration in this Andean city to give birth to the group, which Venezuelan...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brazil, continent, leader, Leadership, president
Research articles 2004-12-08
Indian president proposes Asia-Oceania trade bloc
SEOUL AFP — Indian President Abdul Kalam proposed the creation of a single free trade bloc encompassing Asia and possibly Oceania, officials said. A "Pan-Asian Free Trade Area" would serve as a major global economic growth engine on a par with the European Union and the North American Free...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Asia, FINANCE, India, Korea, president, Seoul
Research articles 2006-02-06
Japan proposes 16-nation Asian trade bloc
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Japanese officials have proposed a sprawling 16-nation free-trade grouping with China, South Korea, Australia, India, New Zealand and the 10-nation Southeast Asian bloc. The 16 last year formed the East Asia Summit -- seen as a precursor of a giant free-trade community embracing half the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Japan, minister
Research articles 2006-08-17
Asian mega-trade bloc discussed at ministerial talks
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Southeast Asian trade ministers have met with their counterparts from China, India, Japan and South Korea to discuss a proposed giant free-trade zone, and thrash out a web of free-trade deals. Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN members this week agreed to study Japan's proposal for...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, FINANCE, Japan, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2006-08-24
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