6 7 Miguel Stevens 1 , Michela Pollicita 5 , Christophe Pannecouque 1 , Erik Verbeken 2 , Oriana 8 Tabarrini 3 , Violetta Cecchetti 3 , Stefano Aquaro 4 , Carlo Federico Perno 5 , 9 Arnaldo Fravolini 3 , Erik De Clercq 1 , Dominique Schols 1 and Jan Balzarini 1* 10 11 12 1 Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, 13 Belgium 14 2 Division of Histopathol...

Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience The Saint Valentine’s decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d’intesa (1993). Since then, following New Corpor...

We draw a distinction between the concepts of purchase affordability (whether a household is able to borrow enough funds to purchase a house) and repayment affordability (the burden imposed on a household of repaying the mortgage). We operationalize this distinction in the context of a new methodology for constructing affordability measures that draws on the value-at-risk concept and takes acco...

We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either employed or unemployed workers. Workers in our model can also sell their labor to the highest bidder. The...

Mutations in the unc-23 gene in the free-living nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans result in detachment and dystrophy of the anterior body wall musculature and a bent-head phenotype when grown on solid substrate. We have determined that the unc-23 gene product is the nematode ortholog of the human BAG-2 protein, a member of the Bcl-2 associated athanogene (BAG) family of molecular chaperone regul...

We show information technology (in short IT) caused rising monopoly power and rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970's. Our reasoning proceeds in four steps. step 1 examines surplus wealth the difference between firm’s wealth (equity and debt) and capital employed. Surplus wealth rose from -$0.59 Trillion in 1974 to $24 Trillion in 2015 which is 82% of total stock market value, refl...

Migration, Trade and Income This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumentalvariables strategy introduced by Frankel and Romer (1999). We build predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultura...

the main aim in this research has been to determining the growth regime in iran based on an open economy concerning the bhaduri and marglin(1990) model.  this model which has been widely used in post keynesian economics is a kaleckian-post keynesian macroeconomic model which is based on effective demand. bhaduri and marglin(1990) concerning wage as a cost item as well as a component of aggregat...

In the present paper we explicitly introduce interest payments and debt into a Kaleckian distribution and growth model with an investment function very close to Kalecki’s original writings. The effects of interest rate variations on the short-run equilibrium values of capacity utilisation, capital accumulation and the rate of profit are derived, and the long run effects on the equilibrium debt-...

BACKGROUND Treating asthmatics with the humanized IgE-scavenging antibody, omalizumab (rhuMAb-E25, Xolair, reduces airways inflammation and asthma symptoms. Previously, omalizumab was shown to cause a dramatic and reversible loss of cell surface high-affinity IgE receptors, FcepsilonRI, from the peripheral blood basophils of asthmatics. The consequences of receptor loss for the FcepsilonRI-medi...