This paper evaluates the two standard alternative exchange rate regimes, fixed and flexible, in a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium two-country setting. Conventional wisdom holds that countries often prefer low exchange-rate variability to stabilize trade. This may explain the observed ’fear of floating’ in emerging markets: although most of them claim to adopt a flexible system, in realit...

For an internationally acclaimed Indian English poet, Debasish Lahiri, time is a recording of the lingering light, in nature, mind. His recent collection poems, Tether that Light (2022) attempt to follow trail light left selected miniature paintings, particularly Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, and Deccani paintings. The intricate artworks enchanting visuals these incredible canvases have enthralle...

Das Gupta and Chopra (1937) discovered leptospirosis in India and reported first a bac,teriologically positive case from Calcutta. Since then, several proven cases of infectious jaundice have been recorded from Calcutta, Assam and Bombay by various workers, viz. Das Gupta (1938, 1939, 1941), Konar et al. (1939) and Lahiri (1941, 1943). Though the discovery aroused considerable interest, the num...

We have investigated the short-range-order of Zr69.5Cu12Ni11Al7.5, Zr41.5Ti41.5Ni17 and Zr67Ni33 metallic glasses, using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations. The glass-forming-abilities of these alloys degrade as: Zr41.5Ti41.5Ni17 > Zr69.5Cu12Ni11Al7.5 > Zr67Ni33. While superior glass formation ability of the multi-component alloys is understandable from c...

Jinfang Wu,1 Md. Riyaz Basha,1 Brian Brock,1 David P. Cox,2 Fernando Cardozo-Pelaez,2 Christopher A. McPherson,3 Jean Harry,3 Deborah C. Rice,4 Bryan Maloney,5 Demao Chen,5 Debomoy K. Lahiri,5 and Nasser H. Zawia1 1Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, 2Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Center for Envi...

References 1. Young DS, Bermes EW Jr. Specimen collection and processing-sources of biological variation. In: Burtis CA, Ashwood ER, eds. Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1994:58-101. 2. Lahiri DK, Schnabeh B. DNA isolation by a rapid method from human blood samples: effects of MgC12, EDTA, storage time, and temperature on DNA yield and quality. Biochem G...

Consistency and optimality of block bootstrap schemes for distribution and variance estimation of smooth functionals of dependent data have been thoroughly investigated by Hall, Horowitz & Jing (1995), among others. However, for nonsmooth functionals, such as quantiles, much less is known. Existing results, due to Sun & Lahiri (2006), regarding strong consistency for distribution and variance e...