In this paper, I consider the lessons recent academic research and historical experiences with monetary targeting and inflation targeting offer for the design of monetary policy regimes. The practical experiences with both monetary and inflation targeting suggest that successful policies have incorporated a great deal of flexibility. In principle, both monetary targeting and inflation targeting...

Obesity prevention should remain a priority, even if there is some suggestion that the epidemic may presently have reached a stable level. However, previous interventions have not been effective in preventing overweight and obesity, and at the same time studies suggest that some subgroups are more predisposed to future obesity. The purpose of this paper is to review interventions on obesity pre...

We evaluate and compare alternative monetary policy rules, namely average inflation targeting, price level traditional targeting in a standard New Keynesian model that features recurring, transient zero lower bound regimes. use determinacy expectational stability (E-stability) of equilibrium as the criteria for stabilization policy. find policy, including nominal income special case, most effec...

abstractgene therapy is a therapeutic approach to deliver genetic material into cells to alter their function in entire organism. one promising form of gene delivery system (dds) is liposomes. the success of liposome-mediated gene delivery is a multifactorial issue and well-designed liposomal systems might lead to optimized gene transfection particularly in vivo. liposomal gene delivery systems...

a new retrofit targeting procedure, based on pinch technology has been developed. the new procedure considers existing structure of a given network and finds the most compatible configuration with the network. to achieve this aim, the procedure uses a linear programming technique that maximize the compatibility. good compatibility between old and new networks helps to make the best use of capit...

This paper looks at targeting performance of the Indonesian health card programme that was implemented in August 1998 to protect access to health care for the poor during the Indonesian economic crisis. By February 1999, 22 million people had received a health card. The health card provided a user fee waiver for public health care. Targeting of the health card was pro-poor, but with considerabl...

The goal of the paper is to propose a set of dedicated fault models targeting single stuck-at faults in hierarchical designs. These include hierarchical fault model for Functional Units, a functional model for multiplexers and a combined hierarchical-functional fault model for conditional operations. In the paper, the new fault models have been integrated to a high-level test path activation to...

Papers in the seminar series are also published on internet in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) formats. Any views expressed in this paper are those of the author only and not those of Columbia University or the National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 In recent years a growing consensus has emerged for price stability as the overriding, long-run goal of monetary policy. However, despite this consensus, the ...