Twenty years of flexible exchange rates: Experiences and developments

Thalassemia in Iran in Last Twenty Years: the Carrier Rates and the Births Trend

Background: Iran is one of the countries located on “the thalassemia belt” with a significant annual number of thalassemia new births. Given the importance of thalassemia prevention, a program to this effect was approved in Iran in 1995. Screening of carrier couples and prenatal diagnosis were the two main elements of this program. In the present study, the authors have tried to address the imp...

Wages, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy*

In an open economy with a floaLing exchange rate, the efficacy of fiscal and monetary policy depends fundamentally on the wage-setting pnxiess. In the canonical models of Mundell and Fleming, monetary expansion raises output via an exchange rate depreciation, while fiscal expansion has no output effect. These results hold only when real wages can be altered by exchange rate movements; if the re...

Flexible exchange rates and insulation : A reexamination

Twenty years trends in mortality rates from stroke in Klaipeda

BACKGROUND During the past decades, mortality from stroke decreased in many western European countries; however, changes concerning long-term stroke mortality in eastern European countries are less evident. OBJECTIVE To assess age- and gender-specific trends in stroke mortality in Klaipeda (Lithuania) from 1994 to 2013. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiological study. SETTING/SUBJECTS Permanent ...

Nonlinearity In Exchange Rates and Forecasting