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The solace of trees : a novel
A young Muslim refugee finds a new family in America, until the aftermath of 9/11 tests him as never before.
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Maturity, Indebtedness, and Default Risk
We advance quantitative-theoretic models of sovereign debt by proving the existence of a downward sloping equilibrium price function for long-term debt and implementing a novel method to accurately compute it. We show that incorporating long-term debt allows the model to match Argentina's average external debt-to-output ratio, average spread on external debt, the standard deviation of spreads, and simultaneously improve upon the model's ability to account for Argentina's other cyclical facts. We also investigated the welfare properties of maturity length and showed that if the possibility of self-fulfilling rollover crises is taken into account, long-term debt is superior to short-term debt.
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الصراع العرقي والديني في البلقان
يعرض الكتاب لدراسة تاريخية تتناول دراسة ظاهرة الاقليات في منطقة البلقان عموما وجمهورية البوسنة والهرسك على وجه الخصوص من حيث بيان مدى قدرة هذه الدول وأجهزتها في التكيف مع التعدد الاثني والعرقي والقومي الذي تعيشه والصراع الديني فيها بالتركيز على دراسة ظاهرة الأقليات وتعددها وبيان أهميتها لما أصبحت تفرزه هذه الظاهرة من نتائج تمس الأمن والاستقرار ليس فقط على الصعيد المحلي وإنما أيضا على الصعيد الدولي وعلى ضوء ذلك جاء هذا الكتاب متناولا ماهية الأقليات ثم عرض دراسة وصفية للأقليات في البوسنة والهرسك وسياسة التدخل الدولي في البوسنة والهرس.
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Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper estimates the productivity gains from reducing tariffs on final goods and from reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can increase productivity by inducing tougher import competition, whereas cheaper imported inputs can raise productivity via learning, variety, and quality effects. We use Indonesian manufacturing census data from 1991 to 2001, which include plant-level information on imported inputs. The results show that a 10 percentage point fall in input tariffs leads to a productivity gain of 12 percent for firms that import their inputs, at least twice as high as any gains from reducing output tariffs.
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The sit room : in the theater of war and peace
\"The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and his own notes, David Scheffer, who later became America's first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, weaves the true story of how policy options were debated in the Sit Room among the highest national security officials. The road to a final peace deal in late 1995 came at the high price of the murderous siege of Sarajevo and ethnic cleansing of mostly Bosnian Muslims from their homes and towns, including the genocide of Srebrenica's men and teenage boys. The Sit Room reveals the behind-the-scenes story about how American policy evolved--often futilely--to try to stop an intractable war and its shocking atrocities. Main actors in the Sit Room include: the assertive Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright; the State Department's ace negotiator, Richard Holbrooke; the cerebral National Security Adviser, Tony Lake; the immigrant Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, John Shalikashvili; the bulldog Deputy National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger; and White House moralist, David Gergen. For almost three years, the Sit Room was littered with shattered proposals to end the war-until armed force backed up diplomacy to compel a fragile peace deal. The Sit Room reveals authentic policy-making at the highest levels, with a unique journey into the arena of war and peace where spirited debate guided America's foreign policy. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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MODELLING ASYMMETRIC EXCHANGE RATE DEPENDENCE
We test for asymmetry in a model of the dependence between the Deutsche mark and the yen, in the sense that a different degree of correlation is exhibited during joint appreciations against the U.S. dollar versus during joint depreciations. We consider an extension of the theory of copulas to allow for conditioning variables, and employ it to construct flexible models of the conditional dependence structure of these exchange rates. We find evidence that the mark-dollar and yen-dollar exchange rates are more correlated when they are depreciating against the dollar than when they are appreciating.
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The discourse of propaganda : case studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
\"Using case studies from recent American military interventions, examines propaganda as an intertextual process, one in which discourse is recontextualized faithfully by multiple parties over time. Explores how messages are constructed, performed, and recontextualized in new and diverse situations\"--Provided by publisher.
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Favoritism in Mutual Fund Families? Evidence on Strategic Cross-Fund Subsidization
We investigate whether mutual fund families strategically transfer performance across member funds to favor those more likely to increase overall family profits. We find that \"high family value\" funds (i.e., high fees or high past performers) overperform at the expense of \"low value\" funds. Such a performance gap is above the one existing between similar funds not affiliated with the same family. Better allocations of underpriced initial public offering deals and opposite trades across member funds partly explain why high value funds overperform. Our findings highlight how the family organization prevalent in the mutual fund industry generates distortions in delegated asset management.
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