September 5, 2008

China and India: Two Paths to Economic Power Economic Letter

By: Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas

China and India: Two Paths to Economic Power Economic Letter

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. China and India have charted different courses to economic growth. So far, China's focus on goods has led to faster growth rates, but...

September 4, 2008

Midmarket CEOs Increasing Investments In Global Growth, Social Responsibility And Customer Collaboration To Address Rapid Change Ahead

By: Market News Publishing

IBM CORP ("IBM-N") - Midmarket CEOs Increasing Investments in Global Growth, Social - Responsibility and Customer Collaboration to Address Rapid Change - Ahead IBM announced the midmarket findings from the IBM Global CEO Study,...

August 22, 2008

Examine Sovereign Wealth Funds With An Indepth Report Containing Articles From Leading Financial Publications

By: Business Wire

Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/90dc7d/sovereign_wealth_f ) has announced the addition of the "Sovereign Wealth Funds - In Focus" report to their offering.

An incisive collection of ten key...

August 13, 2008

International Economic Update, August 2008

By: Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

July 31, 2008

Scotland's Smoking Ban Credited For Fewer Heart Attacks; Study Finds 17% Decrease In One Year

By: USA TODAY
Liz Szabo

Scotland's smoking ban appears to have prevented hundreds of heart attacks in its first year, a study shows.

The number of people admitted to the hospital for heart attacks fell by 17% in the year after Scotland's smoking ban...

July 24, 2008

DUBAL PUBLISHES FIRST SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

By: Asia Pulse

Demonstrating its commitment to responsible corporate citizenship, Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) - the world's seventh largest producer of high quality primary Aluminium - has published the company's first-ever...

July 23, 2008

Chinese In Poll Take Positive View Of Nation

By: USA TODAY
Calum MacLeod

BEIJING -- People in China, host of next month's Olympic Games, are highly satisfied with their roaring economy and the direction of their nation, according to a poll released Tuesday. Americans appear far more downbeat about...

July 22, 2008

Variety, Globalization, and Social Efficiency

By: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute

This paper tests whether the proposition that globalization has led to greater sensitivity of domestic inflation to the global output gap (the "global output gap hypothesis") holds for the euro area. The empirical analysis uses...

July 22, 2008

Why Are Exchange Rates So Difficult to Predict?

By: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Economic Letter

July 22, 2008

Global Inflation

By: Matteo Ciccarelli Benoît Mojon - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

This paper shows that inflation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This...