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Starting from a variant of the New Keynesian model for a small open economy, this paper extends the standard credit channel framework to show that the presence of imperfect competition in the banking system propagates external shocks and amplifies the business cycle. This novel modeling of the banking system captures...
This paper develops a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences - and endogenous differences in the 'toughness' of competition across markets - in terms of the number and average productivity of competing firms. It analyzes how these features vary across markets of...
A senate Agriculture Committee markup of a farm bill (S 1628)began last week and Sen. Par Roberts (R-KS) said he thought there was a consensus that the legislation should be finished by the end of the year. Chairman Tom Harkin commented that he hoped A senate...
The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up the FY2007 DOE budget bill, including funds for fusion. The Senate markup must be reconciled with the House Appropriations bill passed earlier. The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up the FY2007 DOE budget bill, including funds for fusion. The...
e empirically study the market power of U.S. national brand manufacturers by estimating the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. We use scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain to compute several different measures of upper and lower bounds on national...
On Thursday, July 11th, the House Appropriations Committee (Chairman Bill Young, R-FL) met to markup the draft legislation making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for Fiscal Year 20 On Thursday, July 11th, the House Appropriations Committee (Chairman Bill...
The government has rejected a proposal by KIA Motors for tax incentives and market access following the discovery of markup in the Timor car assembling project to be built by the Korean investor. In addition the project might not be feasible as marku The government has...
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee abruptly postponed a markup of financial services reform legislation last week after failing to reach a final agreement on several contentious issues. In a related development, a possible bombshell was lurking in the bThe U.S. Senate Banking Committee abruptly postponed a markup...
The Senate Banking Committee has voted to maintain the current Bank Holding Company Act provision against tying the extension of credit to the purchase of another product, such as insurance. Meanwhile, Committee Chair Alfonse D'Amato, R-N .Y., announceThe Senate Banking Committee has voted to maintain the current...
New Autodesk offering exemplifies computing on the construction site With the proliferation of handheld wireless devices such as Palm Pilots, pocket PCs, Web-enabled cellular telephones and digital capture devices such as cameras and digitize New Autodesk offering exemplifies...
Transaction Adds Electronic Invoice Processing Software to Kofax Solutions BASINGSTOKE, England -- Kofax plc (LSE:KFX), the leading provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions, today announced that it has acquired the shares of OptiInvoice Digital Technology AB ("OptiInvoice"), a Scandinavian company that develops and markets electronic invoice and...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and IDUG®, the International DB2User Group, today announced the first global competition to identify thenext generation of software developers. Known as "The Search for the XMLSuperstar," the contest will be open to all university students, facultyand professional developers across China, India and Southeast Asia...
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WriteCycle Digital Workflow Solution Aimed at Improving Student Writing OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin today announced an alliance with the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals MASSP to offer each of the state's high schools and middle schools a low-cost option to purchase Turnitin's new...
New Web-Based System Allows Company to Automate and Streamline HR Processes SAN DIEGO -- iMarkup Solutions, a provider of web-based business process automation and reporting solutions, today announced that Woolpert, one of the top 100 engineering design firms in the U.S., has selected its product as part of...
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense On Your Marks. At least three weeks of frantic legislative activity begin this week, as lawmakers return from the August recess and try to wrap up the congressional session by Sept. 26. The House Appropriations...
By Emelie Rutherford Congress is poised to tackle the fiscal year 2009 defense spending bill when it resumes its work next week, with the House Appropriations Committee's HAC markup expected as soon as Monday and full House debate likely the following week. In...
Aug 31, 2008 Ryanair will cease daily flights from Cork to Nottingham East Midlands and Glasgow Prestwick on Oct. 26 and Oct. 28 respectively, citing "the 20% increase in charges being imposed on these two routes by Cork Airport." Aug 28, 2008 Ryanair confirmed that it...
INTRODUCTION eXtensible Mark-up Language XML is emerging as the de facto standard for data exchange over the Web. Since XML is a semi-structured data, two types of user queries namely full-text queries keyword based search and structural queries (complex queries specified in tree-like structure) are usually used (1)....
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