Large uninsured risk, severe borrowing constraints, and rapid income growth can create excessively high household saving rates and large current account surpluses for emerging economies. Therefore, the massive foreign-reserve buildups by China are not necessarily the intended outcome of any government policies or an undervalued home currency, but instead a natural consequence of the country’s r...

JEL classification: F32 F41 E32 In a recent paper, Gruber (Gruber, J.W., 2004. A present value test of habits and the current account. Journal of Monetary Economics 51, 1495–1507) claims that habit formation in consumption plays an important role in current account fluctuations in selected developed countries, extending the present-value model of the current account (PVM) with consumption habit...

BACKGROUND Plasmodium falciparum, one of the causative agents of malaria, has high adaptability through mutation and is resistant to many types of anti-malarial drugs. This study presents an in vitro assessment of the antiplasmodial activity of some phenolic compounds isolated from plants of the genus Allanblackia. METHODS Tests were performed on well plates filled with a fixed parasitized er...

Objetivo: Avaliar a autoimagem, estado nutricional e comportamento alimentar usuários do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial. Metodologia: Trata-se um estudo quantitativo, descritivo transversal realizado com adultos CAPS, na região metropolitana Belém/PA. Foram utilizados questionários variáveis socioeconômicas antropométricas, Escala Silhueta Kakeshita (1983), Questionário Evitação Imagem (BIAQ) H...

Abstract Introduction Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects an estimated 30 million men in the United States with 82% of erectile experiencing depressive symptoms. Prior literature has shown that initiation therapy for ED is associated a decrease symptoms; however, rates antidepressant continuation following not been analyzed. Objective Our goal was to analyze rate depression after prescribing test...

U.S. imports and exports respond little to exchange rate changes in the short run. Pricing behavior has long been thought central to explaining this response: if local prices do not respond to exchange rates, neither will trade flows. Sticky prices and strategic complementarities in price setting generate sluggish responses, and they are necessary to match newly available international micro pr...

While a high saving–investment correlation is one of the most robust empirical regularities in international economics, there has been debate about whether it can be interpreted as evidence of barriers to international capital flows. When global and country-specific shocks shift saving and investment in the same direction, the high saving–investment association may be observed even in perfectly...

CD8' cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) clones with specificity for herpes simplex virus (HSV) were derived from two donors with genital HSV-2 infection. These CIL clones specifically lysed HSV-infected autologous B lymphoblastoid cells, but not HSV-infected fibroblasts. Exogenous peptide loading sensitized both cell types to lysis by an HSV-specific ClL clone of known specificity. HSV infection ren...

1 Intelligence moderates neural responses to monetary reward and punishment 1 Daniel R. Hawes 2 Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 3 Colin G. DeYoung 4 Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota , 5 Jeremy R. Gray 6 Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 7 Aldo Rustichini 8 Department of Economics, University of Minnesota 9 10 This work was supported ...

The European sovereign debt crisis revived the discussion concerning pros and cons of exchange rate adjustment in the face of asymmetric shocks. In the spirit of Keynes, exit from the euro area is to regain rapidly international competitiveness. In the spirit of Schumpeter, exchange rate stability with structural reforms would be beneficial towards the long-run growth performance. Previous lite...