This paper compares sticky-price and sticky-information Phillips curves empirically considering inflation dynamics in eleven countries (the G7 and Scandinavia). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second moments of inflation. Although overall model performance is similar, there is a strong systematic pattern in model performance by moment type. Sticky prices match unconditional...

This is the last in a series of reports to share key learnings from my 2005 sabbatical, when I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Western Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing services delivery. This report will focus on quality systems, interprofessional education and innovation. Many of the countries I visited were doing creative work in advancin...

A pseudo-Lagrangian model study of the size distribution properties over Scandinavia: transport from Aspvreten to Värriö P. Tunved, H. Korhonen, J. Ström, H.-C. Hansson, K. E. J. Lehtinen, and M. Kulmala Institute for Applied Environmental Research, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden Finnish Meteorological Institute, POB 503, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland Department of Physical Sc...

This article intends to present the Scandinavian legislation on female genital mutilation and explore the implications of the laws. Juxtaposing trends of plastic genital surgery in the West with claims that female circumcision may be a practice generally abandoned in Scandinavia, we highlight the double morality inherent in current public discussions. Finally, we pose the question: Is the legal...

This is the first case report from Scandinavia of a pyogenic liver abscess caused by a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate belonging to the international hyper virulent clone ST23. The patient, an 85-year old Caucasian, had no history of foreign travel or any classical predisposing factors for infection. The isolate was hypermucoviscous of capsular serotype K1 and carried the virulence factors aeroba...

REFLEX is a working method for developing information systems starting with information strategy continuing with business analysis and concluded by systems development and maintenance. The method is well proven and used by Programator and its customers, including many of the largest corporations in Scandinavia and northern Europe, for more than twenty years. The method has been continuously enh...

The Ottfjället Dyke Swarm (ODS) is a prominent component of the Ediacaran mafic magmatism associated with opening Iapetus ocean, and hosted in Särv Nappe, Middle Allochthon Scandinavian Caledonides. A U-Pb baddeleyite age 596.3 ± 1.5 Ma for thick, well preserved, plagioclase-phyric dolerite dyke Härjedalen, Sweden, dates emplacement swarm. represents robust, inheritance-free reference variably ...