1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789098203321

Autore

Decressin Jörg

Titolo

Current Accounts in a Currency Union / / Jörg Decressin, Emil Stavrev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-2852-0

1-4527-6924-9

1-282-84341-9

9786612843419

1-4518-7274-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

StavrevEmil

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates - European Union countries

Foreign exchange - European Union countries

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

International economics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Current account

Real exchange rates

Current account balance

Real effective exchange rates

Exchange rates

Balance of payments

Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Literature; III. The Data; IV. Current Account Divergences and Dynamics; Figures; 1. Current Account Dispersions; 2. Adjustment to Country-Specific Current Account Shocks



1/; V. The Role of the Exchange Rate and Other Factors; 3. Real Exchange Rate Dispersions; Tables; 1. Estimates of Speed of Adjustment of Current Accounts; 4a: EMU and Other Countries: Impulse Responses of the Current Account; 4b: EMU and Other Countries: Impulse Responses of the Real Exchange Rate; 2. Current Account and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

5. EMU and Other Countries: Correlation Between Current Account3. Estimates of the Current Account Equation; 4. EMU Countries: Current Account Dispersions and NFA; 6. EMU Countries: Fundamental Current Account Dispersions; VI. Conclusion; 7. EMU Countries: Dispersions of Determinants of Current Accounts; Appendix; 8: EMU Countries: Testing for Structural Breaks; References

Sommario/riassunto

A fear about EMU was that in the absence of national currencies, country-specific shocks would result in greater current account divergences between member states. This paper finds that divergences across euro-area countries are smaller and have not risen relative to those across 13 other advanced economies with more flexible exchange rates. Also, the size of country-specific current account shocks in EMU countries is smaller and their persistence is greater than in the other advanced economies. However, these differences in current account dynamics do not appear related to different exchange rate dynamics.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141117203321

Autore

Port Mattijs van de <1961->

Titolo

Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / / Mattijs van de Port [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-23178-6

9786613231789

90-485-1396-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

970.980

Soggetti

Candomblé (Religion) - Brazil - Bahia (State)

Black people - Brazil - Bahia (State) - History

Bahia (Brazil : State) Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Avenida Oceânica : Candomblé, mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in process of world-making -- On Immersion : Academics and the seductions of a baroque society -- Mysteries are invisible : Understanding images in the Bahia of Dr Raimundo Nina Rodrigues -- Re-encoding the primative : Surrealist appreciations of Candomlé in a violence-ridden world -- Abstracting Candomblé : Defining the 'public' and the 'particular' dimensions of a spirit possession cult -- Allegorical worlds : Baroque aesthetics and the notion of an 'absent truth' -- Bafflement Politics : Possessions, apparitions and the really real of Candomblé's miracle productions -- The permeable boundary : Media imaginaries in Candomblé's public performance of authenticity -- Conclusions: Cracks in the wall : Invocations of the rest-of-what-is the anthropological study of world-making.

Sommario/riassunto

For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomblé. Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with notebooks and cameras, questions and inquisitive gazes, or ogling eyes and the hope of inclusion. This study asks what seduced these



outsiders to seek access to the Afro-Brazilian religious universe and, conversely, how did cultists respond to the overwhelming interest in their creed and to becoming an object of the outsiders? imaginations.