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A contested financial frontier: banking and empire building in Eritrea, c.1952–73
2021
AbstractThis article provides an account of the relationship between imperial Ethiopia and Eritrea in the realm of banking governance from the start of the federation to the last years of the imperial regime. It looks in particular at the relationship between the Ethiopian administrations and an Italian bank, Banco di Roma, which had its headquarters in Eritrea from 1948 to 1967 before moving to Addis Ababa. The struggle for control of the economic flows generated by the Italian bank is an index of the changes in centre–periphery linkages between Addis Ababa and the sub-regional centre of Asmara. Archival evidence highlights the multifaced nature of Ethiopian governance and the role perform…
A Stochastic Programming Model for the Optimal Issuance of Government Bonds
2010
Sovereign states issue fixed and floating securities to fund their public debt. The value of such portfolios strongly depends on the fluctuations of the term structure of interest rates. This is a typical example of planning under uncertainty, where decisions has to be drawn on the base of the key stochastic economic factors underneath the model.We propose a multistage stochastic programming model to select portfolios of bonds, where the aim of the decision maker is that of minimizing the cost of the decision process. At the same time, we bound the conditional Value-at-Risk, a measure of risk which accounts for the losses of the tail distribution. We build an efficient frontier to trade-off…
CO2 Prices and Portfolio Management
2008
Since January 2005, the attention on European carbon markets has been increasing and thus the interest in studying the implications of the existence of two new assets in portfolio management. In this article we analyse both the characteristics of the EUAs Phase I and Phase II as a sole investment and the impact of including these two assets, considered separately, in a well-diversified portfolio. In order to control the problems of using historical returns, we have performed this analysis using as expected returns either historical returns or risk-adjusted returns. We find that, although the weights of EUAs are not too important when incorporating the EUAs in an optimal and well-diversified…
FRONTIER RESEARCH IN TORNEDALEN
1970
Publisher Summary This chapter highlights frontier research in Tornedalen. In view of the general alignment of the research carried on by ethnologists, it is a matter of course that a concentration of interest to regions with administrative boundaries of such a marked character as, for example, national frontiers may often give a sharper relief to the problems considered. The interest in questions around such boundaries here leads to inter-Nordic collaboration. This is what has happened in Tornedalen, the frontier zone between Finland and Sweden. The problems around a frontier dividing a coherent settled area make themselves felt in all sectors of human community life, and, they cannot be i…
The undiscovered country from whose bourn some travelers do return. The final frontier in Poe and Dickinson.
2002
Paul.S.Derrick@uv.es El ensayo empieza comentando el relato de Poe, “MS. Found in a Bottle” como una expresión americana del concepto romántico de que la muerte es la fuente de toda imaginación y, como consecuencia, de toda obra de arte. También sugiere que este relato anticipa fenómenos culturales posteriores como la psicología freudiana y las novelas absurdas de Kafka y Beckett. Continua considerando hasta qué punto las diversas cuestiones que Poe trataba, a saber, la idea de la frontera aplicada a las líneas divisorias entre la razón y la sinrazón, entre el lenguaje y el silencio y, finalmente, entre la vida y la muerte, se ven reflejadas en la poesía modernista de Stevens y Eliot. Termi…
Border surveys and Time Location Sampling (TLS): an application on incoming tourism in Sicily
2012
The increasing need of reliable and detailed information at a regional and subregional level poses some challenges related with the measurement of tourists flows, for tourism destination management, planning and promotion purposes,. The aim of this work is twofold; first, it intends to analyse and discuss the main features and limits of the official border surveys conducted in the majority of world’s countries, within the framework of Time Location Sampling (TLS) design; second, it suggests the implementation of TLS design at a subnational level, by presenting the sampling design of the survey on incoming tourists in Sicily, carried out between 2009-2010, aimed at estimating the unobserved …
The Application of Accounting Methodology of Radar Charts to Analyze the Sector of Sawmilling and Planning of Wood of Austria
2015
The accounting methodology of radar charts (AMRCh) explains the behavior of companies through average periods of maturation of management activity on short term. These variables represented on each one of axes of radar chart allow measure the activity of companies, applying the cosine and sine theorems of plane geometry. The analysis of activity is for each one of areas represented on a radar chart through by non-slanted indicators. This study shows that frontier effect carry out companies to adopt a sectorial management to maintain their activity. This manuscript presents the basic theory of AMRCh, firstly. Secondly, the study analyzes the management of industrial sector, which carries the…
The Abbey of Werden on the Frankish-Saxon Frontier. The Depictions of Landscapes and Emotions in the vita Gregorii and the vitae Liudgeri
2021
Abstract This study explores the depictions of landscapes and emotions in the ninthcentury hagiographies associated with Liudger: the three vitae Liudgeri and Liudger’s own vita Gregorii. The Frisian missionary founded the monastery of Werden, situated near the Frankish-Saxon frontier. It will be argued that previous historiography on early medieval frontiers has predominantly focused on the military nature of frontiers. Here, more cultural or symbolic natures of the Frankish-Saxon frontier will be discussed. The hagiographical narratives will be examined in conjunction with the notion of a frontier as a ‘third space’. The vitae Liudgeri shaped a discourse that legitimated Liudger’s transla…
Frontiera e retoriche della migrazione: il caso della carta di Palermo 2015
2019
Questo lavoro propone una riflessione da una prospettiva geografica sul concetto di frontiera e sulle forme di spazialità che esso implica. Più in particolare, gli autori si concentrano sulle modalità attraverso cui la frontiera è continuamente (ri)definita a partire dalle retoriche (soprattutto pubbliche e mediatiche) che accompagnano le migrazioni considerate “clandestine” secondo le attuali norme europee. Le riflessioni vengono sviluppate a partire dal caso studio dell’immigrazione irregolare a Palermo, attraverso l’analisi della Carta di Palermo 2015, un documento approvato dalla Giunta comunale del capoluogo siciliano nel 2015 (e, successivamente, inviato alle massime cariche dello Sta…
Entre Mediterraneo y Atlantico: reflexiones sobre las fronteras
2017
Nell’ultima decade del secolo scorso, il tema della “frontiera” si è imposto tanto nel dibattito politico, nazionale e internazionale, quanto nella riflessione storica (ma non solo) volta a recuperare nel passato le origini di problematiche di estrema attualità. Da allora, le complesse dinamiche sociali che hanno investito in particolar modo l’area mediterranea, hanno fatto sì che l’interesse per il significato storico delle frontiere non si esaurisse, bensì allargasse progressivamente lo spettro d’indagine per riportare alla luce processi di integrazione ed esclusione, di contrattazione e opposizione. La messa in discussione di identità e appartenenza, risultato della progressiva intensifi…