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Climate variability, climate change, and fisheries
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ISBN: 0521414407 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press

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This unique volume addresses the potential implications of global warming for fisheries and the societies that depend on them. Using a "forecasting by analogy" approach, which draws on experiences from the recent past in coping with regional fluctuations in the abundance or availability of living marine resources, it shows how we might be able to assess our ability to respond to the consequences of future environmental changes induced by a potential global warming. The book takes the form of a series of integrated case studies from around the globe, which are presented by an interdisciplinary group of leading researchers.


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Are Prices Countercyclical?
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ISBN: 1462341896 1455227315 1281993700 9786613794833 1455290769 Year: 1992 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper examines the comovement of prices with the cyclical component of output. It argues that determining the cyclical behavior of prices by applying the same stationarity-inducing transformation to the levels of both output and prices, and examining the correlations of the resulting series, can be misleading. A more appropriate procedure is to examine the correlations between the rate of inflation and the level of the cyclical component of output. In post-war U.S. data the correlations between similarly transformed price and output data are consistently and often strongly negative, as reported recently by a number of authors as evidence of countercyclical price behavior. The rate of inflation, however, is consistently and usually strongly positively correlated with various measures of the cyclical component of output.

The business cycle : theories and evidence : proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Economic Policy Conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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ISBN: 0792392396 940105312X 9401129568 Year: 1992 Publisher: Boston Kluwer Academic

Cyclical growth in market and planned economies.
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ISBN: 0198283148 Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press


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Business cycle analysis by means of economic surveys. Part II. Papers presented at the 20th CIRET Conference. Proceedings, Budapest 1991.
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ISBN: 1856282600 1856284298 Year: 1992 Publisher: Avebury,

Analyzing and forecasting futures prices : a guide for hedgers, speculators, and traders.
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ISBN: 0471533122 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Wiley


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The Terms of Trade and Economic Fluctuations
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ISBN: 1462381227 145521924X 1281990086 1455224189 9786613794512 Year: 1992 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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A three-good, stochastic intertemporal equilibrium model of a small open economy is used to examine the link between terms of trade and business cycles. Equilibrium co-movements of model economies representing industrial and developing countries are computed and compared with the stylized facts of 30 countries. The results show that terms-of-trade shocks account for half of observed output variability and that the model mimics the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler effect and produces large deviations from purchasing power parity. The elasticity of substitution between tradable and nontradable goods and the persistence of the shocks play a key role in producing these results.


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Robustness of Macroeconomic Indicators of Capital Mobility
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ISBN: 1462341853 1455253561 1282012002 9786613795953 1455293814 Year: 1992 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The performance of macroeconomic indicators of capital mobility is examined in the context of an intertemporal equilibrium model of a small open economy. Recursive numerical solution methods are used to compute measures of consumption smoothing, savings-investment correlation, and the variability and output-correlation of investment that characterize the model in the presence of income disturbances. None of these statistics is a reliable indicator of capital mobility unless information regarding differences in preferences, technology, and the nature of stochastic shocks can be taken into account.

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