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Woodford (1999) develops the notion of a “timelessly optimal” pre-commitment policy. This paper uses a simple business cycle model to illustrate this notion. We show that timelessly optimal policies are not unique and that they are not necessarily better than the time-consistent solution. Further, we describe a method for constructing optimal precommitment rules in an environment where the poli...

The paper presents a simple Stock-Flow Consistent open economy model with flexible exchange rates. It can reproduce the same dynamics and results of rates ‘benchmark’ by Godley Lavoie [2007b. Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production Wealth. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan]. latter is considered ‘centre gravity’ SFC literature. Yet new uses only one-third eq...

By RIai iiD J. COHEN, LEWIS H. DENNIS AND MARCEL E. CONRAD T HE PARENTERAL ADMINISTRATION of small doses of heparin to normal adults1 and to patients with arteriosclerotic heart disease2 has no measurable effect on blood platelet economy. However, larger amounts of heparin1 and therapeutic doses of bishydroxycoumarin ( Dicumarol) distinctly prolong tile survival of circulating platelets.3’4 The...

this research uses econometrics techniques to study significant correlation between poverty and globalization of economy and investigate mechanisms influence of globalization on poverty in the economy during the period 1984-2004. in this context, the estimated three models discussed. in the form of a model for a significant correlation between poverty and globalization of the economy - causal r...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank my research advisor, Professor Dennis Shasha, for inspiring this work and especially for his guidance and patience along the way. I would also like to thank my wife, Melissa, and my son, Addison, for their enthusiastic encouragement and endless support. Finally, I want to thank Nicholas Perito for teaching me what a thesis actually is and for his editorial...