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- Optimal Catastrophe Insurance
- This paper adopts a normative approach to catastrophe insurance. It addresses the question of how innovation in the design of insurance contracts could help take advantage of increased capacity in the markets for catastrophic risk. Moreover, it shows how the design innovation might actually lessen the need for this capacity...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
- This paper analyzes how endogenous imperfect exchange rate pass-through affects domestic and CPI inflation targeting optimal monetary policies. The paper shows that there exists an inverse relation between the pass-through and the insulation of the economy from foreign shocks, and that imperfect pass-through tends to decrease the variability of the...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Consumer Attitude Towards Brand Extensions: An Integrative Model and Research Propositions
- The paper proposes an integrative model of the antecedents and consequences of brand extension attitude based on the dominant cognitive paradigm. The four key processes of the model are: the perception of fit, the formation of primary attitudes towards the extension, the link between extension attitude and marketplace behavior and...
- White papers 2002-09-19
- Air Transport Regulation Under Transformation: The Case of Switzerland
- Over the past five years, the Swiss air transport sector has witnessed an unprecedented number of accidents and incidents, leading to an independent analysis ordered by the government. The resulting report of 2003 identified significant regulatory and institutional deficiencies with direct implications for safety. The challenges to Switzerland's institutional regulatory...
- White papers 2005-03-07
- Multinationals, Intra-Firm Trade And FDI: A Simple Model
- This paper models trade and FDI Foreign Direct Investment in a world consisting of two symmetric countries. Using a monopolistic competition model of international trade which includes positive trade costs and endogenous multinational firms, paper introduces an intermediate good and allows firms to fragment production internationally. The result is that...
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Trade Liberalisation And Agglomeration With Firm Heterogeneity - Forward And Backward Linkages
- This paper studies the impact of trade costs reduction on geographical concentration in the presence of firm heterogeneity and overhead type of export fixed costs. Firm heterogeneity with the export fixed costs hampers full agglomeration through weakening the forward and backward linkages and fortifying the market crowding effect. Rather than...
- White papers 2006-04-01
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- Mansfield joins Cornell; Enologist finishing Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota
- Anna Katharine Mansfield, currently the enology project leader at the University of Minnesota, has been named assistant professor of enology at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., effective Jan. 1, 2009. Mansfield earned a master's degree at Virginia Tech in 2001 and expects to receive...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GENEVA OVERHOLSER has been appointed director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. She earned a bachelor's from Wellesley College and a master's from Northwestern University.
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- The passing of a friend
- The death of Rudi Dornbusch on July 25, at the age of 60, took from us a great economist and an exceptional human being. Rudi was born and grew up in Krefeld, Germany. He was an undergraduate at the University of Geneva, and completed his Ph.D. at the University...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- Seeking still to place the blame. (prevention of Holocaust)
- Seeking still to place the blame UNE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? By Jean-Claude Favez. FACING THE HOLOCAUST IN BUDAPEST. By Arieh Ben-Tov. THE KILLING OF SS OBERGRUPPENFUHRER...
- Research articles 1989-05-13
- BOTTLED HYPE?(report by the World Wildlife Fund on the health claims of bottled water)(Brief Article)
- Online at the Bottled Water Store, you can purchase a brand named More Precious Than Gold or read about the featured water of the month. But last April, a World Wildlife Fund study questioned the health claims of bottled water (see "Consider the Source," Currents, March/April...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Bottled Hype? - report by the World Wildlife Fund on the health claims of bottled water - Brief Article
- Online at the Bottled Water Store, you can purchase a brand named More Precious Than Gold or read about the featured water of the month. But last April, a World Wildlife Fund study questioned the health claims of bottled water (see "Consider the Source," Currents, March/April 2001). According to the...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Too big to be too good.(Airtime: guest commentary)(Excerpted from recent testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee by Geneva Overholser)
- Excerpted from recent testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee by Geneva Overholser, a University of Missouri professor and former editor of the Des Moines Register, opposing further media consolidation: Excerpted from recent testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee by Geneva Overholser, a...
- Research articles 2004-10-11
- Geneva dancers place eighth, 13th at state.(Neighbor)(Your page)
- The Geneva Dance Team gave two performances at the Illinois Drill Team Association's state competition March 27 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The competition included 132 teams that gave 200 performances at the day-long event. The Viking dancers finished...
- Research articles 2004-04-11
- Swiss stargazers discover spinning "cosmic monster"
- GENEVA AFP — Swiss scientists said they had discovered a form of star spinning at a record speed of 600 revolutions a second, feeding off a nearby companion star to maintain its energy. Dubbing the pulsar -- a small and dense rotating mass of neutrons -- a "cosmic monster",...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- ITU to establish ICT Centre in Japan; Waseda University to support ITU standardization and development initiatives.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 May 2003-ITU: ITU to establish ICT Centre in Japan; Waseda University to support ITU standardization and development initiativesC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05282003 Geneva -- The International Telecommunication Union ITU, in cooperation with Waseda University of Japan, has established the...
- Research articles 2003-05-28
- ITU expands partnership with Waseda University, Japan ITU-Waseda ICT centre to support radiocommunication activities.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 February 2004-ITU: ITU expands partnership with Waseda University, Japan ITU-Waseda ICT centre to support radiocommunication activitiesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02172004 Geneva -- The International Telecommunication Union and Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan have established a research centre at the...
- Research articles 2004-02-17
- ITU expands partnership with Waseda University, Japan ITU-Waseda ICT Centre to support radiocommunication activities.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 February 2004-ITU: ITU expands partnership with Waseda University, Japan ITU-Waseda ICT Centre to support radiocommunication activitiesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02172004 Geneva -- The International Telecommunication Union and Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan have established a research centre at the...
- Research articles 2004-02-17
- The Red Cross and the Holocaust.(Review) (book review)
- The Red Cross and the Holocaust Jean-Claude Favez, Edited and translated by John and Beryl Fletcher Cambridge University Press, xxxiii and 353pp, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-521-41587-X THIS BOOK FIRST appeared in 1988. It was published in Lausanne,...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever
- In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born Towards the end of the summer of 1969 – a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a month before the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus...
- News items 2009-10-25
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