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The Identification of Response of Stock Returns to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-08-11)
The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-12-01)
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...
Degradation State and Sequestration Potential of Carbon in Coastal Wetlands of Texas: Mangrove vs. Saltmarsh Ecosystems
(2014-09-22)
The estimated magnitude of organic carbon (OC) stocks contained in the first meter of US coastal wetland soils represents ~10% of the entire OC stock in US soils (4 vs. 52 Pg, respectively). Because this stock extends to ...
Genetic Diversity in the Hydroid Janaria mirabilis: Possible Presence of Cryptic Species
(2014-09-25)
Janaria mirabilis (Hydractiniidae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) is a calcareous hydrozoan that forms encrusting colonies on gastropod shells. Identifying Hydractiniids using morphology only has been shown to be misleading due to ...
The Vulnerability of Eastern North American Plethodontidae Salamanders to Climate Change
(2014-08-07)
Many biologists rely on environmental niche modeling to predict where species will migrate upon imminent climate changes. These coarse-scale approaches base species’ movements on variables such as temperature, habitat, and ...
Application of Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Estimate Post Mortem Interval
(2014-10-06)
Estimating the post mortem interval of human remains is extremely important in death scene investigations. Currently, the rate of decomposition is gaged by a number of techniques, such as insect development, a function in ...