Library News for Economics

New E-Resources from the Library

·         Encyclopaedia Islamica: the first volume of a projected 16-volume set, which complements two existing ebooks on the same vendor platform, Brill: Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures.

·         CQ Almanac:  Since 1945, ‘the definitive annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress’

·         Google Patent Search: same content as the US PTO site, in an easy-to-use Google interface

·         Book of Odds: a searchable online database of "odds statements," the probabilities of everyday life. You can search it by keyword or by the odds themselves - for instance, how many things stand a 1 in 142 chance of happening to you.

GIS Poster Showcase -- Entries Welcome!

As you have probably heard, on November 19^th the University is hosting a GIS symposium. There will be speakers in the morning and a series of short workshops in the afternoon. In conjunction with the symposium there will be a map gallery/poster session and contest, to be held in the Earth and Planetary Sciences building. 

 

If you plan to attend the symposium, you can register at http://gis.wustl.edu/.

 

If you or any of your students have a GIS project that could be of interest to others on campus, please consider submitting a poster.  Please spread the word to your students and colleagues and invite anyone interested to participate. If you have something to display, please to contact me at cmorton22@wustl.edu.

 

 

Some basics about the poster session:

 

1.  The session will run from 12pm-4:30pm on the November 19^th in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Building.

 

2.  Any project using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is eligible.

 

3.  Deadline for submission is November 17^th.

 

4.  Prizes will be awarded for the best use of GIS.

 

5.  Free poster printing is available.

 

6.  Submit all posters and/or inquiries to Cheryl Morton at cmorton22@wustl.edu or 935-4148.

 

 

 

Hope to see you there!

CEPR Discussion Papers, 11/3/09

Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South	Julia Darby Rodolphe Desbordes Ian Wooton	IT	DP7533	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7533
Financial health, exports, and firm survival: A comparison of British and French firms	Holger Görg Marina-Eliza Spaliara	IT	DP7532	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7532
Isolation and Development	Quamrul Asharf Oded Galor Omer Özak	IM	DP7531	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7531
The Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade	Gregory Corcos Delphine Irac Giordano Mion Thierry Verdier	IT	DP7530	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7530
Measuring attention and strategic behavior in games with private information	Isabelle Brocas Colin Camerer Juan D Carrillo Stephanie W. Wang	PP	DP7529	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7529
Paulson's Gift	Pietro Veronesi Luigi Zingales	FE	DP7528	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7528
Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements	Giovanni Maggi Robert Staiger	IT	DP7527	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7527
Fiscal Policy Can Reduce Unemployment: But There is a Better Alternative	Roger E A Farmer	IM	DP7526	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7526
Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?	Jan Boone Jan C van Ours	LE	DP7525	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7525

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CEPR Papers for This Week

Regulatory Competition and Bank Risk Taking Itai Agur IM DP7524 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7524 Integration of the North American economy and new-paradigm globalisation Richard Baldwin IT DP7523 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7523 Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate Tirthankar Roy IM DP7522 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7522 A Dynamic Model of Network Formation with Strategic Interactions Michael König Claudio J. Tessone Yves Zenou LE PP DP7521 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7521 Market Imperfections, Wealth Inequality, and the Distribution of Trade Gains Reto Foellmi Manuel Oechslin IO IT DP7520 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7520 2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture -- Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory Oded Galor IM DP7519 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7519 Money in monetary policy design: Monetary cross-checking in the New-Keynesian model Günter Beck Volker Wieland IM DP7518 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7518 Qualitative Effects of Cash-For-Clunkers Programs Eugenio J Miravete Maria J Moral Rincón IO DP7517 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7517 Efficient Recapitalization Thomas Philippon Philipp Schnabl FE IM PP DP7516 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7516
Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence	Joseph A. Clougherty		IM IO	DP7515		PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7515
Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy	Vasco Cúrdia Michael Woodford		IM	DP7514		PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7514
Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters	Eduardo Borensztein Olivier Jeanne Damiano Sandri		IM	DP7513		PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7513
Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students	Oriana Bandiera Valentino Larcinese Imran Rasul		PP	DP7512		PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7512
Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Fiscal Stimulus		Troy Davig Eric M. Leeper	IM		DP7509	PDF		www.cepr.org/DP7509
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers		Wolfgang Keller	DE IO IT		DP7503	PDF		www.cepr.org/DP7503
Internal Rationality and Asset Prices		Klaus Adam Albert Marcet	IM		DP7498	PDF		www.cepr.org/DP7498

Updated from China Data Online (database)

The Library subscribes to this database.  Please let me know if you need more information.
Meanwhile:

We are pleased to inform you of the following updates of the China Data Online service:

 

1.      The yearbook database has been updated with about 300 additional statistical yearbooks, including China 2009 Statistical Yearbook and some other national, provincial and city statistical yearbooks

2.      There is a new dynamic map service (Statistics on Map II) for statistical data, which offers dynamic maps, report, charts and living animation.

3.      The China Spatial Data Reports and Maps (DemographicsNowChina), which offer spatial intelligence for demographic and business Census data retrieval and analysis.

CEPR Papers This Week

 

Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge	Emeric Henry Carlos Ponce	IO	DP7511	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7511
A defence of the FOMC	Martin Ellison Thomas J Sargent	IM	DP7510	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7510
Predicting recoveries and the importance of using enough information	Xiaoming Cai Wouter Den Haan	IM	DP7508	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7508
The Myth of Financial Innovation and the Great Moderation	Wouter Den Haan Vincent Sterk	IM	DP7507	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7507
Dynamic Trading and Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek	Giovanni Cespa Xavier Vives	FE	DP7506	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7506
Understanding the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Shocks	Karel Mertens Morten O. Ravn	IM	DP7505	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7505
One TV, One Price?	Jean Imbs Haroon Mumtaz Morten O. Ravn Hélène Rey	IM	DP7504	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7504
Labor Market Rigidities, Trade, and Unemployment	Elhanan Helpman Oleg Itskhoki	IT	DP7502	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7502
The Political Economy of Redistribution in the U.S. in the Aftermath of World War II and the Delayed Impacts of the Great Depression - Evidence and Theory	Roel Beetsma Alex Cukierman Massimo Giuliodori	IM	DP7501	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7501
The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the EMU and other Monetary Unions: An Overview of Recent Research	Roel Beetsma Massimo Giuliodori	IM	DP7500	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7500
Government Bond Risk Premiums in the EU revisited: The Impact of the Financial Crisis	Ludger Schuknecht Jürgen von Hagen Guido Wolswijk	PP	DP7499	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7499
Dynamic Incentive Accounts	Alex Edmans Xavier Gabaix Tomasz Sadzik Yuliy Sannikov	FE	DP7497	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7497
Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks	Manuela Angelucci Giacomo De Giorgi Marcos A. Rangel Imran Rasul	DE	DP7496	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7496
Financial Crises and Economic Activity	Stephen G Cecchetti Marion Kohler Christian Upper	IM	DP7495	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7495

RefWorks for Alumni!

 

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50 Free Ivy-League Lectures on the Economy

Here's the URL: http://www.onlineclasses.org/2009/09/30/50-free-ivy-league-lectures-on-the-economy/

From the website: "The economy has taken central stage in world news for the past few years due to rapidly failing markets the world over. Even with so much attention focused on economic issues if you’re not familiar with the field, or simply want a more in-depth look at things, it can be hard to follow just what’s going on. These lectures, given by scholars from some of the most prestigious educational institutions in the United States and around the world can help give you that foundation of knowledge and help you better understand the financial crisis that’s been building over the past few years."

With a tip of the hat to ResourceShelf.

CEPR Discussion Papers

What Can Be Learned from Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment	Simon J Evenett	IT	DP7494	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7494
How do different exporters react to exchange rate changes? Theory, empirics and aggregate implications	Nicolas Berman Philippe Martin Thierry Mayer	IM IT	DP7493	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7493
What do Russians think about transition?	Irina Denisova Markus Eller Ekaterina Zhuravskaya	DE PP	DP7492	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7492
Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!	Salvador Barrios Holger Görg Eric Strobl	IT	DP7491	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7491
Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?	Gilles Saint-Paul	IM LE	DP7490	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7490
Spain is Different: Falling Trends of Inequality	Josep Pijoan-Mas Virginia Sánchez-Marcos	IM LE PP	DP7489	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7489