Potential Causes of Global Crisis

Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis: Products of Common Causes

One of the main global economic concerns before the financial crisis was the presence of large “global imbalances,” which refer to the massive and persistent current account deficits experienced by the United States and financed by the periphery . This concern was intellectually grounded on the devastating crises often experienced by emerging market economies that run chronic current account de...

Crisis Transmission: Global Financial Crisis

The aim of this paper is to explore, empirically, the channels of crisis transmission with regard to the Global financial crisis. EMP-based crisis proxy is used for eight countries, which include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Russia. The period considered for estimation was Q1 2001 Q2 2010. Based on the Vector AutoRegression (VAR) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS...

APP causes an energy crisis

In This Issue In This Issue RB pockets the cell cycle idely used cancer therapies inflict collateral damage on normal dividing cells. But now Lohez et al. (page 67) find a way to distinguish normally cycling cells from cancer cells using actin inhibitors that cause an RB-dependent cell cycle arrest. High levels of actin inhibitors prevent cell cleavage and thus lead to a doubling of cellular DN...

Anthracosis of the Lung: Evaluation of Potential Causes

Anthracosis is black pigment discoloration of bronchi which can cause bronchial destruction and deformity (anthracofibrosis). A prospective, case-control study was performed to evaluate potential underlying causes of anthracosis on 190 subjects who referred for various indications.  Age of patients ranged from 10-85 yrs. 46% of male patients were farmers and 27% were manual workers, whereas 91%...

The Causes of Japan’s Financial Crisis