1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781440903321

Autore

Yaron Hadas

Titolo

Zionist arabesques [[electronic resource] ] : modern landscapes, non-modern texts / / Hadas Yaron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, c2010

ISBN

1-61811-022-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Israel : society, culture and history

Disciplina

956.94/5

Soggetti

Jews - Colonization - Israel - Jezreel Valley - History - 20th century

Jews - Agriculture - Israel - Jezreel Valley - History - 20th century

Agriculture - Palestine - History - 20th century

Agriculture - Israel - Jezreel Valley - History - 20th century

Agriculture, Cooperative - Palestine - History - 20th century

Kibbutzim - History

Collective settlements - Israel - History - 20th century

Labor Zionism - Palestine - History - 20th century

Jezreel Valley (Israel) History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conventional and environmental agriculture: the modern, anti modern and non modern landscapes -- From Europe to the Middle East: blossoming the desert, cultivating the land of Israel -- The State as a plot: who owns the land, who plans the landscape -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Zionist Arabesques is an ethno-historical account of the landscape of the Jezreel Valley in Israel and explores how the modern landscape of the valley has been created, both physically and symbolically, from the perspective of both local and large-scale processes. It addresses not only the guiding principles of modern Israeli agriculture, its connection to Zionist settlement and ideology, and the evolvement of the Arab-Jewish conflict, but also examines the relevance of law, State policies and sector based politics, being a mixture of archival and ethnographic material composed with a unique textual structure. The book is useful for those interested in Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as



well in experimental writing styles.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961252003321

Autore

Crowe Christopher

Titolo

Testing the Transparency Benefits of Inflation Targeting : : Evidence from Private Sector Forecasts / / Christopher Crowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613820167

9781462378043

1462378048

9781452750132

1452750130

9781282391734

1282391739

9781451910025

1451910029

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Anti-inflationary policies - Econometric models

Inflation (Finance) - Forecasting - Econometric models

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Deflation

Depository Institutions

Economic Forecasting

Economic forecasting

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Finance

Finance: General

Financial services industry

Forecasting and Other Model Applications

Forecasting

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Inflation targeting

Inflation



Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy

Monetary policy

Money and Monetary Policy

Mortgages

Price Level

Prices

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-29).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Theoretical Framework""; ""III. Empirical Strategy and Results""; ""IV. Conclusions""; ""Appendix I. Comparative Statics in The Model of Morris and Shin (2002)""; ""Appendix II. Matching Algorithms""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

I test whether inflation targeting (IT) enhances transparency using inflation forecast data for 11 IT adoption countries. IT adoption promotes convergence in forecast errors, suggesting that it enhances transparency. This effect is robust to dropping observations, is strengthened by using instrumental variable estimation to eliminate mean-reversion, and is absent in placebo regressions (where IT adoption is shifted by a year). This result supports Morris and Shin's (2002) contention that better public information is most beneficial for forecasters with bad private information. However, it does not support their hypothesis that better public information could make private forecasts less accurate.