Decentralization and Regional Convergence: Evidence From Night-Time Lights Data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibek Adhikari ◽  
Saroj Dhital
Keyword(s):  
Regional Convergence ◽  
Night Time

scholarly journals Essays on applied macroeconomics and monetary policy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Saroj Dhital
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Regional Convergence ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Applied Macroeconomics ◽  
Money Search

The dissertation presents three essays in applied macroeconomics and monetary theory. First essay explores the existence of global financial cycles and examines the relationship between financial and macroeconomic sectors at a global scale. I find that there exist significant cycles in financial variables and the contribution of the financial shocks on global macroeconomic sector is significant and varying over time. Second essay examines the role of decentralization on regional convergence using night-time satellite lights data as proxy for regional economic activities. I find that the decentralization hinders regional convergence in the sample of developing countries. Third essay analyzes active and passive fiscal and monetary policy regime in the presence of long and short-maturity government debt. I utilize the advances made in money search model to analyze the policy regimes. I find that while there are some similarities between the regime, there are also significant differences. I also find that the results using money-search model can be different than using a reduced form models.

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Night Time ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relations Of Power

This book offers a critique of the dominant understanding and deployment of empathy in the mainstream medical humanities. Drawing on feminist theory, it positions empathy not as something that one has or lacks, and needs to accrue, but as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional and cultural relations of power. It aims to provide a critically informed definition of empathy, drawing on phenomenology, in order to counter the vagueness of the term as it has often been used. It questions, too, the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, looking to a broader and more encompassing definition of the ‘medical’. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Pat Barker’s Life Class, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, this book contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but itself engages critically with the question of empathy and its limits. The volume marks a key contribution to the rapidly evolving field of the critical medical humanities.

Distinction of Wet Road Surface Condition at Night-time using Texture Features

2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (9) ◽  
pp. 1488-1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiji Shibata ◽  
Tatsuya Furukane ◽  
Shohei Kawai ◽  
Yuukou Horita
Keyword(s):  
Surface Condition ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Road Surface ◽  
Night Time

Sustainable Development and Regional Convergence: The Spanish Case

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando GONZÁLEZ-LAXE ◽  
Federico MARTIN-PALMERO ◽  
Marcos FERNÁNDEZ-FRANCOS
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Convergence
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