A new approach to cointegration developed by Enders et al. (Cointegration tests using instrumental variables with an example of the U.K. demand for money. Unpublished working paper. http://wenders.people.ua.edu/time-seriesmethods.html, 2008) is applied to long-span, high-frequency data to test for purchasing power parity in the Mexico–US real exchange rate. Overall the empirical results suggest...

Robert Treat Paine III passed away June 13 in Seattle surrounded by family and friends. RTP, as he was known, was an emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, where he developed a career that helped define the field of community ecology. Ever an avid naturalist who paid close attention to the specifics of a bird song or a starfish’s diet, RTP’s best-known contributions were the concep...

The main goal of the article is to compare crisis role German Reichstag und Austrian Nationalrat in early 1930’s and how relationship parliament-government/president was influenced that respect. We argue system emergency decrees President (Article 48 Weimar Constitution) systematically undermined parliament favour state bureaucracy a technocratic government. In Austria, since March 4, 1933 Doll...

OBITUARY Biography of Professor Stanis³aw Wolfarth, an excellent scientist and honorable man, is a history of a man, who despite very difficult beginning of his career, achieved great success in his life being a self-made man. He accomplished this owning to his talent and hard work, and most of all, to strong character and passion for knowledge. in Gostyñ, a small town in the Poznañskie region,...

Thi r tytwo faculty members will present the courses of instruction in education and arts. Thir teen visiting instructors will serve on the summer session faculty. They will include: Dr. Joseph Kirk Folsom. professor of economics and sociology, a t Vassar, Professor Arlie E. McGulre, head of the depar tment of j education at the Concord Sta le normal school, Athens, West Virginia, Donald M. Tow...

Ivan Daskalov [1933–2004] was a friend who will be missed by many. Neither the quality of a man nor the concept of a friendship can be defined with words. We may only say that both will be missed. Friendship is a unique human relationship. It is a mutual freely consensual activity between two people. Each friendship is different and inexplicable, and based on its own particulars. When you lose ...