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Testing the Marshall-Lerner condition in Kenya
No full textIn this paper we examine the Marshall-Lerner (ML) condition for the Kenyan economy. In particular, we use quarterly data on the log of real exchange rates, export-import ratio and relative (US) income for the time period 1996q1 – 2011q4, and employ techniques based on the concept of long memory or long-range dependence. Specifically, we use fractional integration and cointegration methods, which are more general than standard approaches based exclusively on integer degrees of differentiation. The results indicate that there exists a well-defined cointegrating relationship linking the balance of payments to the real exchange rate and relative income, and that the ML condition is satisfied in the long run although the convergence process is relatively slow. They also imply that a moderate depreciation of the Kenyan shilling may have a stabilizing influence on the balance of payments through the current account without the need for high interest rates.This study is partly funded by the Ministry of Education of Spain (ECO2011-2014 ECON Y FINANZAS, Spain) and from a Jeronimo de Ayanz project of the Government of Navarra
LerneR (Melvin J.) Lerner (Sally C.) The Justice Motive in Social Behavior, Adapting to Times of Scarcity and Change
No full textDeconchy Jean-Pierre. LerneR (Melvin J.) Lerner (Sally C.) The Justice Motive in Social Behavior, Adapting to Times of Scarcity and Change. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°56/2, 1983. p. 275
Gerda Lerner Family Collection 1939-1978
No full textThe collection contains materials related to several members of the Kronstein/Neumann/Mueller families; both original documents as well as additional biographical information and excerpts from Gerda Lerner's book "A Death of One's Own". The bulk consists of correspondence, mainly written from Ilona Kronstein's exile in Nice to her daughter Gerda in the United States. In one letter, Ilona Kronstein describes a brief stay in the Gurs camp. Most of the correspondence has been summarized by John and Eva Englander, the summaries are included in the folders.Austrian Heritage CollectionGerda Lerner, October 2003; April 2004 (Addenda 1)The Gerda Lerner Papers are on deposit at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. See also the Nora Kronstein-Rosen Family Collection at the LBI (AR 25257)Ilona Kronstein (nee Neumann) was born in Budapest in 1897 to Sigmund Neumann and Emma Deutsch. In 1918, she met Robert Kronstein. The couple married a year later and moved to Vienna. They had two daughters: Gerda, born in 1920, and Nora, born in 1925. Between 1928 and 1933 Ilona studied art with Johannes Itten. She opened her own studio in 1933. In 1938, after several weeks in a Gestapo prison, she fled with her two daughters, Gerda and Nora, to Liechtenstein, where her husband was already waiting. After a few months in Vaduz, she went to a small town near Nice and solely devoted herself to art. It was in Nice that she became friends with the painter Rudolf Ray. In 1940 she was detained in the concentration camp at Gurs for several weeks and from 1941 onwards she began to show signs of multiple sclerosis. Her family managed with great difficulty to get her back to Liechtenstein in 1942 and to obtain medical assistance for her in Switzerland. She died in Zurich in 1948.In 2000, the Jewish Museum Vienna exhibited drawings and pastels by Ilona Kronstein, which her daughters Gerda Lerner and Nora Kronstein-Rosen donated to the museum in 1997.Ilona's sister Margit Neuer (born 1899) was a physician and perished in Auschwitz. Her second sister Klara (born 1903) married Alexander Mueller, a psychiatrist and close co-worker of Alfred Adler. As a stateless person he was denied residence in several countries and forcibly sent across the border back to Germany, until he finally obtained residence in Holland. After the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands, he and his wife fled to Budapest, where they survived the Russian siege and he survived Eichmann's death march to Austria. After the end of the war they first returned to The Netherlands, then found refuge in Switzerland, where Alexander Mueller accepted a position at the University of Zuerich. He died in 1968.Elizabeth Breznitz, née Klein, was born in Léva (then Hungary, today Levice, Slovakia). Her first husband, Leo Kalmer, died in a concentration camp in Bavaria; she was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945, but her father and her stepmother perished. After the war she lived in Plzen, Czech Republic. Her letters are of great interest to understand the daily life of a Holocaust survivor in Czechoslovakia.Gerda Kronstein came to the US in 1939, where she married Carl Lerner in 1941. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1966. She is one of the founders of women's history and a former President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1972, she founded the first graduate (M.A.) program in women's history in the US at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1980 she founded the first PH.D. program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has won many honors, including 17 honorary degrees and is the author of 13 books.See also the catalog of an exhibition held at the Juedisches Museum Wien in 2000: Die Welt der Ili Kronstein = the world of Ili Kronstein : Werke 1938-1943 / herausgegeben von Werner Hanak im Auftrag des Juedischen Museums Wien. Wien : Juedisches Museum Wien, 2000. (LBI Library call number: q 156)Alexander Mueller’s only published book, “Du sollst ein Segen sein! : Grundzuege eines religioesen Humanismus“, GBS-Verlag, 1954 („You shall be a blessing! : main traits of a religious humanism”) has been transferred to the LBI libraryGerda Lernerdigitize
Exchange rate policy and trade balance. A cointegration analysis of the argentine experience since 1962.
No full textUsing multivariate cointegration tests for non-stationary data and vector error correction models, this paper examines the determinants of trade balance for Argentina over the last forty to fifty years. Our investigation confirms the existence of long-run relationships among trade balance, Real Exchange Rate (RER) and foreign and domestic incomes for Argentina during different real exchange rate management policies. Based on the estimations, the Marshall-Lerner condition is examined and, by means of impulse response functions, we trace the effect of a one-time shock to the RER on the trade balance checking the J-curve pattern.Argentina; Marshall-Lerner; J-Curve; cointegration and impulse response analysis
Does market concentration of downstream buyers squeeze upstream suppliers’ market power?
No full textUsing a theoretical model, we examine both the relationship between a downstream dominant firm’s market share and an upstream monopoly’s Lerner index and the relationship between upstream and downstream price elasticities of demand, in a regulated industry context. We undertake an empirical study that confirms our theoretical predictions, namely that the market share of a leader downstream firm is significant in explaining the upstream producers’ Lerner indexes. Also in accordance with the results of the theoretical model, the Lerner index is negatively influenced by the competition that suppliers face and by the level of economies of density, amongst other variables.vertical relations, buyers’ market power
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Quadrature Modulation Hybrid Voice and Data Modem
No full textInternational Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-20, 1977 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Quadrature Modulation Hybrid Modem is a new system designed to provide voice only, data only, or combined voice and data communication. It provides good voice intelligibility at low values of C/N0 by making use of a quadrature modulation technique which permits essentially nonthresholding demodulation of the voice signal. Power sharing between voice and data signals can be easily changed to accommodate different requirements. Intelligibility tests have been performed and indicate an intelligibility of 90% in the voice-only modem at a value of C/N₀ of 43 dB-Hz, and an intelligibility of 80% in the combined voice and data mode at a value of C/N₀ of 43 dB-Hz with an error rate for data of 10⁻⁵.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection
Aktive Lerner, verletzliche Geschöpfe, Entwicklungswesen: Kinderbilder im deutschen politischen Diskurs
No full textBetz T, de Moll F. Aktive Lerner, verletzliche Geschöpfe, Entwicklungswesen: Kinderbilder im deutschen politischen Diskurs . In: Förster C, Höhn K, Schreiner SA, eds. Kindheitsbilder – Familienrealitäten. PrägendeElemente in der pädagogischen Arbeit. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder; 2013: 41-49
Interview with Alicia Erian
No full textAlicia Erian is the author of a novel, Towelhead, and a collection of stories, The Brutal Language of Love. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, and The Iowa Review. She has worked as a film director and screenwriter and taught at Wellesley College. She is currently completing a memoir. In March 2011, Erian came to Butler University as a writer-in-residence and sat down with Susan Lerner to discuss her writing process, messy families, and sex
On weighted norm inequalities for the Carleson and Walsh-Carleson operator
No full textWe prove L-p (w) bounds for the Carleson operator C, its lacunary version C-lac, and its analogue for the Walsh series W in terms of the A(q) constants [w]A(q) for 1 <= q <= p. In particular, we show that, exactly as for the Hilbert transform, parallel to C parallel to L-p(w) is bounded linearly by [w]A(q) for 1 <= q < p. We also obtain L-p (w) bounds in terms of [w]A(p), whose sharpness is related to certain conjectures (for instance, of Konyagin [International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. II (European Mathematical Society, Zurich, 2006) 1393-1403]) on pointwise convergence of Fourier series for functions near L-1. Our approach works in the general context of maximally modulated Calder ' on- Zygmund operators
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