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July 2002

The gravity deformations of the ATCA main reflector, as well as the displacements in the sub-reflector and feed, have been surveyed at a set of elevations by VMS (AT 39.3/109). In this report, I quantify these deformations and displacements and examine their effects on the antenna performance at 90 GHz. I have computed the far-field radiation pattern at each of the survey elevations and the ele...

July 2002 Tenant

continued on page 2 T he June 27 Rent Guidelines Board vote saw more debate and a bigger, louder tenant turn out than any RGB meeting in years. Over 150 tenants, chanting “Roll Back the Rents,” packed the auditorium in the basement of the US Customs House on Bowling Green, despite 20-minute waits at the metal detector. But as it did in May, the board rejected tenant calls to roll back or freeze...

IMF Staff Papers - Vol. 49, No. 2, July 2002

This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for 23 developing and developed countries during the crisis-strewn 1990s. We find that UIP works better on average in the 1990s than in previous eras in the sense that the slope coefficient from a regression of exchange rate changes on interest differentials yields a positive coefficient (which is sometimes insignificantly di...

IMF Staff Papers - Vol. 49, No. 2, July 2002

In the growth literature, evidence on convergence of per capita incomes is mixed. In the development literature, health and education indicators are often used to measure countries’ development progress. This study examines whether average stocks of health and education are converging across countries and calculates the speed of their convergence using data from 84 countries for 1970–90. A thre...