1. Introduction The goal of this survey is to give an overview (from a topologist's prospective) of the theory of Kleinian groups in higher dimensions. The survey grew out of a series of lectures which I have given in the University of Maryland in Fall of 1991 and which I have decided to update and publish now, in the proceedings of the 3-rd Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium. This survey was greatly innu...

In this paper an open economy model of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve incorporating three different factors of production, domestic labor and imported as well as domestically produced intermediate goods, is developed and estimated for 9 euro area countries and the euro area aggregate. This general model nests existing closed economy and open economy models as special cases. We find that struc...

THE IMPACT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL ARTIFACT CORRECTION ON TASK FMRI GROUP COMPARISON Steffen Bollmann, Lars Kasper, Carmen Ghisleni, Simon-Shlomo Poil, Peter Klaver, Lars Michels, Dominique Eich-Höchli, Daniel Brandeis, and Ruth L. O'Gorman Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switz...

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