International interest

International Interest Rate Linkages: a Time Varying Parameter Approach

This paper examines the issue of state contingency in interest rate linkages across the G7 economies by employing Kalman (1960,1963) filter techniques to estimate time varying parameter models of bilateral dependence. Our results show that there is convincing evidence that international linkages in interest rates vary considerably over time. There are periods when international interest rate mo...

International Linkages in Short- and Long-term Interest Rates

This paper examines interest rate linkages in the G7 economies by testing for cointegration and employing the causality testing method for unstable systems recently introduced by Toda and Yamamoto (1995), which results in standard asymptotics. Our results show that whilst domestic macroeconomic variables are important determinants of long-term interest rates, international linkages play a major...

International interest focuses on SNM 2009 Annual Meeting.

Capitalizing on national self-interest: the management of international telecommunication conflict by the International Telecommunication Union.

In the early days of telecommunication,' technically advanced nations quickly recognized the usefulness of the telegraph in international commerce. There was, however, a considerable obstacle to the development of the new technology's commercial potential. As one observer of this era of telecommunication history points out, "humanity could not fully benefit from all the miraculous possibilities...

Moderate Morality: An Interest-Based Contractarian Defense & its Applied Result in the Political Ethics of International Relations

What is morality’s scope? Should all our actions be evaluated morally? Is it necessary to be causally responsible for harm to have a responsibility to reduce it? Is there a morally relevant distinction between those consequences of our actions which we intend or do and those which we foresee but do not intend or allow but do not do? Is helping others a matter of supererogation (i.e. beyond the ...