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Skander J. Van den Heuvel

Traditional monetary theory has largely ignored the role of bank equity. Bank-centred accounts of how monetary policy affects the real economy usually focus on the role of reserves and reserve requirements in determining the volume of demand deposits and, in the case of the bank lending channel, bank loans. As Benjamin Friedman (1991) observed, “Traditionally, most economists have regarded the ...

Hendrikje van Andel, bristlecone pines, and why we die.

At the moment of writing this editorial (September 2004), the oldest living person in the world is Hendrikje van Andel. She celebrated her 114th birthday on June 29 of this year, and lives in an old people’s home in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. When interviewed by the world press she cheerfully gave away her secret: a herring and a glass of orange juice a day. While survival beyond the age of 10...

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Neurophysiol Martin J . Lankheet and Richard J . A . van Wezel Anna Oleksiak , P . Christiaan Klink , Albert Postma , Ineke J . M . van der Ham

Dr. C. J. C. Earl