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Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences
An empirical study of exchange rate regimes based on data compiled from 150 member countries of the International Monetary Fund over the past thirty years.Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure float…
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- 9780262273770
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- 1 online resource (232 pages) :illustrations
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Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted V…
Essays by prominent scholars and policymakers honor one of the most influential macroeconomists of the last thirty years discussing the themes behind his work.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Extraterrestrial languages
If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Explo…
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- 9780262355261
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Fragile rise :grand strategy and the fate of Imperial Germany, 1871-1914
Germany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons for today. A series of solemn anniversary events have marked the centenary of World War I. Could history repeat itself in today's geopolitics? Now, as then, a land power with a growing economy and a maritime power with global commitments are the two leading states in the international system. Most…
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- 9780262340632
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When things don't fall apart :global financial governance and developmental f…
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers…
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- 9780262344043
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Quality Assurance and Institutional Transformation; The Chinese Experience
Diketahui bahwa perekonomian Tiongkok telah mencapai kesuksesan besar selama 30 tahun terakhir. Namun, pendidikan tinggi masih menghadapi tantangan yang signifikan. Terlepas dari komitmen pemerintah Tiongkok untuk membangun universitas kelas dunia sejak pertengahan tahun 1990an, universitas-universitas Tiongkok berjuang untuk mencapai status ini dengan karakteristik unik mereka. Baru-baru ini, …
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- 978-981-10-0789-7
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- Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance
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- 658.4012 LIU q
IMF essays from a time of crisis : the international financial system, stabil…
Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections on the issues raised. The IMF drew much criticism for some of its actions during Fischer's tenure, and he vigorously defends the …
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- 9780262272704
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 535 pages) : illustrations
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Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet
A guide to help business managers better compete in the age of the internet and electronic commerce.This book offers a novel approach for analyzing and developing business strategies for the Internet and electronic commerce. The topics addressed include how to predict which firms will be successful, how a manager should respond to competitors who adopt the Internet and electronic commerce, and …
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- 9780262278614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes
Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital markets. In Too Sensational, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Trace Theory for Automatic Hierarchical Verification of Speed-Independent Cir…
Speed-independent circuits offer a potential solution to the timing problems of VLSI. In this book David Dill develops and implements a theory for practical automatic verification of these control circuits. He describes a formal model of circuit operation, defines the proper relationship between an implementation and its specification, and constructs a computer program that can check this relat…
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