bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Non-Standard Monetary Policy Measures – Magic Wand or Tiger by the Tail?
Authors: Belke Ansgar 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper briefly assesses the effectiveness of the different non-standard monetary policy tools in the Euro Area. Its main focus is on the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Programme which is praised by some as the ECB’s “magic wand”. Moreover, it discloses further possible unintended consequences of these measures in the current context of weak economic activity and subdued growth going forward. For this purpose, it investigates specific risks for price stability and asset price developments in the first main part of the paper. It is not a too remote issue that the Fed does have a “tiger by the tail”, as Hayek (2009) expressed it, i. e. that the bank will finally have to accept either a recession or inflation and that there is no choice in between. Furthermore, it checks on whether the OMT programme really does not impose costs onto the taxpayer. Finally, it comes up with some policy implications from differences in money and credit growth in different individual countries of the Euro Area. The second main part of the paper assesses which other tools the ECB could use in order to stimulate the economy in the Euro Area. It does so by delivering details on whether and how the effectiveness of the ECB’s policies can be improved through more transparency and “forward guidance”.
The Taylor Rule and Financial Stability – A Literature Review with Application for the Eurozone
Authors: Käfer Benjamin 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThe question whether central banks should bear responsibility for financial stability remains unanswered. In connection with the use of interest rates, it is therefore not clear whether and how the Taylor rule should be augmented by an additional financial stability term. This paper reviews the normative and positive literature on Taylor rules augmented with exchange rates, asset prices, credit, and spreads. These measures have evolved as common indicators of financial (in)stability in the Taylor rule literature. In addition, our own analysis describes the development of these indicators for the core and the periphery of the Eurozone. Given the high degree of heterogeneity between euro area countries, the conclusion here is that an interest rate reaction to instability by the European Central Bank would be inappropriate in times of crisis. However, this conclusion is somewhat weakened if there is no crisis.
Why Do Few Homeowners Insure Against Natural Catastrophe Losses?
Authors: Antwi-Boasiako Benjamin Addai 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Insurance has been suggested as a policy instrument that can help in managing the rising economic cost of natural catastrophes. Evidence, however, shows that many homeowners do not insure their homes against natural catastrophes and tend to depend on (unreliable) disaster aid. This paper surveys the economics, insurance and psychology literature to explain why few homeowners insure against natural catastrophes. The paper covers the relevant theoretical approaches as well as the available empirical evidence and possible policy measures.
Money and Credit in the New Keynesian Model
Authors: Offick Sven , Wohltmann Hans-Werner 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper integrates a money and credit market into a static approximation of the baseline New Keynesian model based on a money-and-credit-in-the-utility approach, in which real balances and borrowing contribute to the household’s utility. In this framework, the central bank has no direct control over the interest rate on bonds. Instead, the central bank’s instrument variables are the monetary base and the refinancing rate, i. e. the rate at which the central bank provides loans to the banking sector. Our approach gives rise to a credit channel, in which current and expected future interest rates on the bond and loan market directly affect current goods demand. The credit channel amplifies the output effects of isolated monetary disturbances. Taking changes in private (inflation and interest rate) expectations into account, we find that - contrarily to BERNANKE and BLINDER (1988) - the credit channel may also dampen the output effects of monetary disturbances. The expansionary effects of a monetary expansion may be substantially diminished if the monetary disturbance is accompanied by a contractionary credit shock. In a dynamic version of our model, in which expectations are formed endogenously, we find that the credit channel amplifies output responses.
Cancer Incidence in First- and Second-Degree Relatives of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
Authors: Streff Haley , Profato Jessica , Ye Yuanqing , Nebgen Denise , Peterson Susan K. , Singletary Claire , Arun Banu K. , Litton Jennifer K. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract

Background.
Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are associated with increased risk of breast, ovarian, and several other cancers. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the incidence of cancer in first- and second-degree relatives of BRCA mutation carriers compared with the general population.

Materials and Methods.
A total of 1,086 pedigrees of BRCA mutation carriers was obtained from a prospectively maintained, internal review board-approved study of persons referred for clinical genetic counseling at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. We identified 9,032 first- and second-degree relatives from 784 pedigrees that had demonstrated a clear indication of parental origin of mutation. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were used to compare the observed incidence of 20 primary cancer sites to the expected incidence of each cancer based on the calculated risk estimates according to each subject's age, sex, and ethnicity.

Results.
BRCA1 families had increased SIRs for breast and ovarian cancer (p &lt; .001) and decreased SIRs for kidney, lung, prostate, and thyroid cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (p &lt; .001). BRCA2 families had increased SIRs for breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer (p &lt; .001) and decreased SIRs for kidney, lung, thyroid, and uterine cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (p &lt; .0025). Analysis of only first-degree relatives (n = 4,099) identified no decreased SIRs and agreed with the increased SIRs observed in the overall study population.

Conclusion.
We have confirmed previous reports of an association between breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers with BRCA mutations. Additional research to quantify the relative risks of these cancers for BRCA mutation carriers can help tailor recommendations for risk reduction and enhance genetic counseling.
Psicoanálisis y feminidad: el vínculo madre e hija
Authors: Navarro María Dolores 
Published: June 2016

<p>Desde una óptica psicoanalítica, la identidad sexual es una construcción inconsciente. En el caso de la sexualidad femenina, el vínculo madre hija es fundamental. Lacan habló del “estrago” refiriéndose al arrancamiento que debe hacer la hija de la madre para acceder a la feminidad. La feminidad sólo puede ser definida como una interrelación entre el inconsciente y la cultura. Los nuevos tiempos están haciendo surgir un nuevo tipo de mujer y con ella, nuevos conflictos y síntomas.</p><p> </p>
Los Contemporáneos hoy: reescrituras de Jorge Cuesta y Xavier Villaurrutia en la novela mexicana de finales del siglo XX.
Authors: Regalado López Tomás 
Published: June 2016

<p>Resumen:</p><p>Durante los años veinte y treinta el grupo Contemporáneos aportó una visión plural y cosmopolita a la cultura mexicana, a contracorriente con los dogmas nacionalistas que habían contagiado los sectores sociales, culturales y políticos de su país después de la Revolución. A partir del concepto de la <em>tradición de la ruptura</em> de Octavio Paz, este ensayo pretende analizar comparativamente cómo dos novelas de finales de siglo, <em>A pesar del oscuro silencio</em> (1992) de Jorge Volpi, y <em>En la alcoba de un mundo</em> (1992) de Pedro Ángel Palou, dialogan intertextualmente, entre la ficción, la biografía y el ensayo, con dos obras de autores de Contemporáneos: el poema metafísico “Canto a un dios mineral”, de Jorge Cuesta, y el poemario <em>Nostalgia de la muerte</em>, de Xavier Vilaurrutia.</p><p>PALABRAS CLAVE: Literatura mexicana, Grupo Contemporáneos, Jorge Volpi, Pedro Ángel Palou,<br />intertextualidad<br /><br /></p><p>Abstract</p><p>The Contemporáneos group played a key role in post-revolutionary Mexico. They offered a cosmopolitan and international perspective on culture and literature in spite of the nationalistic tone that permeated all levels of Mexican life during the twenties and the thirties. Seven decades later, in 1992, Jorge Volpi and Pedro Ángel Palou wrote two novels that played tribute to poets in Contemporáneos: Volpi´s <em>In Spite of the Dark Silence</em>, a tribute to Jorge Cuesta, and Palou´s <em>In the Bedroom of the World</em>, that paid homage to Xavier Villaurrutia. Departing from Octavio Paz´s concept <em>tradition of rupture</em>, this essay aims to study the inter-textual relationships between <em>In Spite of the Dark Silence</em> and Cuesta´s poem “Song to a Mineral God” on the one hand, and, on the other, the links between <em>In the Bedroom of the World</em> and Xavier Villaurrutia´s <em>Nostalgia of the Dead</em>.</p><p>KEY WORDS: Mexican literature, Contemporáneos group, Jorge Volpi, Pedro Ángel Palou, inter-textual relationships<br /><br /></p>
La sabiduría de la raposa y su actitud frente a los poderosos: la fábula del 'León y la leona' en varias obras teatrales del Siglo de Oro
Authors: Arciello Daniele 
Published: June 2016

<div class="WordSection1"><p><strong>RESUMEN</strong></p><p>Este estudio se va a centrar principalmente en cómo algunas comedias del Siglo de Oro han asimilado una fábula bastante conocida en aquella época. Me refiero a «El león y la leona», también conocida como «El zorro rechaza hacer de árbitro» según la recopilación llevada a cabo por Maxime Chevalier. Puesto que el género teatral se caracteriza por su complejidad, no es fácil detectar todos los elementos relacionados con dicha fábula en las producciones teatrales en cuestión. Sin embargo, la labor realizada por estos comediógrafos ha permitido averiguar fácilmente cómo han plasmado este cuento de animales hasta convertirlo en algo innovador y renovador del género fabulesco, demostrando una creatividad que quizás proporcione a autores poco conocidos como Cubillo de Aragón o don Jacinto de Herrera nueva e inesperada fama. </p><p>PALABRAS CLAVE<strong>: </strong>fábula, animales, teatro, comedia, personajes.</p><p> </p><p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>This essay is focused on how a well-known XVII century fable has been artfully re-elaborated in various Spanish comedies performed in that period. I am referring to «El león y la leona», also known as «El zorro rechaza hacer de árbitro» according to a compilation established by Maxime Chevalier. It is commonly known that drama genre is characterised by its complexity, so it could result difficult to locate the elements related to the fable in those dramatic compositions. Nevertheless, through an exhaustive analysis of what the authors achieved when shaping the content of this animal tale by their ingenious minds, it is easy to consider how craftily the fable has been inserted in their works. Undoubtedly quite ignored names such as Cubillo de Aragón or don Jacinto de Herrera really deserve more fame then they currently have. </p></div><p>KEY WORDS:<strong> </strong>fable, animals, theatre, comedy, characters.</p>
HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH PROMOTION: A CANADA FIT FOR CHILDREN?
Authors: Mitchell Richard 
Published: June 2016

<p>The 2011 Canadian election campaign demonstrates once again that while the health care debate is always a highly contested political issue, little of the discussion originates from, or is concerned with, citizens under 18 years of age. This paper responds to this gap in knowledge with findings from a qualitative, exploratory human rights study investigating the youth-led health promotion group REACT (Resist, Expose and Challenge [big] Tobacco). Under the auspices of the Chief Medical Officer, successive cohorts of high-school students have been working within the Niagara Public Health Region in Ontario, Canada since 2005. The main findings suggest that young people are fully competent to manage important aspects of their own health, and have led authorities to support health-enhancing behaviours for themselves and their peers. Moreover, it is clear that rights-based health promotion has been underutilized in Canada since dominant theoretical approaches to healthy development and traditional top-down institutional processes frequently overlook – and thus violate – the participatory human rights of young people. This violation represents a social justice issue with far-reaching consequences for equity in the overall health of the Canadian population.</p>
“I’M LUCKY” . . . TO HAVE FOUND CHILD CARE: EVOKING LUCK WHILE MANAGING CHILD CARE NEEDS IN A CHANGING ECONOMY
Authors: Albanese Patrizia , Farr Tanya 
Published: June 2016

This research<a href="http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijcyfs/author/saveSubmit/3#_edn1">1</a> looks at the impact of the rise of women’s non-standard, service sector employment on gender roles, identities and relations, and compares the complex task of finding and managing formal and informal non-parental child care in rural and semi-rural communities in two policy jurisdictions (Ontario and Quebec) in the Ottawa Valley. It seeks to understand the ways in which the neo-liberal reconfiguration of local economies impact on the experiences of employed, non-urban women with young children – mitigated by provincial policy decisions – through documenting the strategies they adopt to cope with challenges when managing this family-market-state nexus. This paper specifically focuses on mothers’ use of the notion of “luck” in describing how they found and managed their unique child care needs. Luck, in the psychological literature, is often treated as either an external, unstable, and uncontrollable cause, or an internal personal attribute. This paper shows that its use and invocation in response to questions about finding and managing child care has to do with gendered perceptions of control and power(lessness) over social circumstances related to geography, government policies, and changing, and at time precarious, economic/labour market circumstances. <div><div><p> </p></div></div>
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEMAND FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
Authors: Tade Oludayo , Aderinto Adeyinka A 
Published: June 2016

<p>The employment of domestic servants is a common phenomenon in Nigeria, where vulnerable children are internally trafficked to work as domestic servants in affluent urban households. While scholars have investigated the push factors aiding the demand for child domestic servants in West Africa, attempts to understand the dynamics underlying the demand are scarce. Hence, this study investigated factors that propel demand for domestic servants in Oyo State. The data were generated using both the quantitative and qualitative methods. The results show three categories of employers: newly married women, married women with grown-up children, and isolated widows and grandparents. The demand is driven by role dualism, workload, and the need for companionship. The incipient decline in the extended family structure of social exchange system (fostering) and preference for “outsiders” rather than family members justify the demand for and use of domestic servants. The study recommended welfare programmes targeted at demanding households and an intervention strategy for the trafficked children. </p>
MOVING TOWARDS EMANCIPATORY PRACTICE: CONDITIONS FOR MEANINGFUL YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN CHILD WELFARE
Authors: Dupuis Jennifer , Mann-Feder Varda 
Published: June 2016

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;">What are conditions that facilitate the development of youth voice in child welfare? This article will build on current literature that emphasizes the critical importance of treating youth in the care of the public system as valued resources and agents of change in their own lives who can contribute to effective service delivery. A focus will be on comparing principles of youth empowerment and the general purpose of child welfare systems in Canada and the United States. Challenges to the implementation of this model will be highlighted and recommendations to facilitate its execution at the individual, organizational, and policy development levels of our youth serving agencies will be made.</span></p>
Temporary Families? the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program and the Neoliberal Regime of Immigration Governance in Canada
Authors: Chen Xiaobei , Xiaohan Thorpe Sherry 
Published: June 2016

<p class="BodyA">The Canadian government has introduced a series of policy changes to various immigration programs since 2008. This paper focuses on the revamping of the parent and grandparent (PGP) sponsorship program and the introduction of new measures such as the Super Visa. Using Foucauldian analytical tools and drawing on Bacchi’s (2009, 2012) method of studying policy as problematizations, we first historicize the problematization of the family in immigration policy. Second, we refute the government’s representation of immigration under the PGP program problems as essentially a transparent “problem of math,” that of too many applicants overwhelming the system. Finally, we analyze neoliberal technologies of immigration governance and their impact on citizenship formation and struggles. Who counts as family, we argue, has been biopolitically determined in Canadian immigration policy. Family members are recognized as such when it suits the needs of the state. The latest changes in family sponsorship policies objectify potential parents and grandparents reunification applicants, seeing them as human liabilities that pose risks to the Canadian population because of their advanced age. The new measures deploy a neoliberal regime of governance that discriminatorily responsibilizes the family, marketizes regulation, and maximizes the state’s control of the border and of the population. </p>
Análisis económico de la minería (carbón y oro) 2007-2010 en Colombia
Authors: Vargas Castaño Juan David , Manrique Cabezas Diego Alejandro 
Published: June 2016

<p>El problema de investigación fue conocer la minería como una actividad económica compleja y determinar cómo afectan las variables de explotación minera al índice de desarrollo humano (IDH). Se abordó desde la teoría neoclásica microeconómica. Cuatro puntos fueron analizados: la participación del estado en la renta minera, las implicaciones sociales, presencia institucional en la minería y finalmente dinámicas ambientales. Dicha actividad, acapara terrenos productivos y dispone de los recursos hídricos, deteriorando mantos vegetales en las cordilleras nacionales. Añádase que el carbón y el oro exportados, esencialmente son concesionados a multinacionales que dejan parte de las ganancias, y un pasivo de sostenibilidad al país. Lo anterior es explicado por la ausencia institucional. Se encontró que el (IDH) es afectado negativamente por una variable relacionada a la producción minera; positivamente por dos. Finalmente, las conclusiones muestran la ineficiencia institucional en el manejo estatal de los recursos naturales, obviando los costos ambientales.</p><p> </p>
Aproximación a la noción de ciudadanía en la contemporaneidad* How understand today the citizenship?
Authors: Muñoz Cardona Ángel Emilio 
Published: June 2016

<p>El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar el concepto de ciudadanía dentro de la sociedad contemporánea. Reflexionar acerca de los beneficios sociales que implica el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el fomento de los sentimientos de simpatía para el reconocimiento del otro como persona humana sintiente e igual. Desde un análisis inductivo, se busca explicar cómo a partir de la ética situacional, generada por las amenazas de las economías de mercado, los individuos tienden a validar prácticas sociales de atropello al otro. Son ejemplo de desequilibrios sociales que se ocultan bajo los denominativos de ciudadanía. Ausencias culturales de respeto por el otro, que pueden ser controladas y desestimuladas con la formación y el fomento universal de los sentimientos de amor y de respeto al ser humano, por el simple hecho de ser humano. Sentimientos que, a manera de conclusión, son más fácilmente propagados a través del uso generalizado de páginas web y las redes sociales. De imágenes y gestos. En otras palabras, el respeto por el otro es fruto de la unión social cada vez más amplia. Es el reconocimiento de una ciudadanía universal más allá de lo territorial o cultural, por cuanto tiene relación con las acciones humanas naturales; a través de las cuales se expresan los diferentes imaginarios de búsqueda en calidad de vida, felicidad para sí mismo y del grupo familiar.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Medición de las influencias económicas y sociales del microcrédito en la calidad de vida
Authors: Villada Medina Hernán Darío , Rodríguez David Esteban , Rendón García Juan Fernando 
Published: June 2016

<p>Este trabajo presenta un modelo para la medición del impacto del microcrédito en la calidad de vida en Colombia. El modelo se construye a partir de la comparación entre las variables económicas y sociales más utilizadas dentro de la literatura sobre impacto de microcrédito y la base presentada y oficiada por el Dane con la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida (ECV). En los resultados se muestra una relación de variables para cada indicador, se obtienen las bases teóricas de creación de una encuesta, los indicadores que se alimentan de dichas variables y sus análisis estadísticos pertinentes. Los resultados presentados tienen en cuenta que la metodología teórica es aplicable de manera práctica usando los parámetros que ya están descritos por el Dane, lo cual permite condicionar poblaciones y espacios de estudio más centrados y flexibles permitiendo medir varias ciudades o varias entidades financieras de toda la nación, además, los resultados se pueden analizar econométricamente para determinar cuáles de los indicadores y sus parámetros tienen influencia en la calidad de vida dependiendo de las poblaciones analizadas.</p><p> </p>
Algunas aproximaciones históricas al concepto de ciudadanía
Authors: Ceballos Ruiz Paula Andrea , Benavides Vanegas Laura Alejandra , Gutiérrez Giraldo Vanessa , Cano Rodríguez Nathalia 
Published: June 2016

<p>El presente artículo constituye parte del marco teórico que han realizado, en torno al concepto de ciudadanía, los investigadores del semillero de investigación en formación ciudadana y cultura de la legalidad “Sophia”. Se abordan sucintamente las consideraciones más significativas que se han construido sobre el concepto de ciudadanía, desde su nacimiento en la antigüedad y la versión de la modernidad consolidada, finalmente, en la democracia liberal. Este recorrido se ha realizado desde una perspectiva ontológica, epistemológica, antropológica y política del concepto. Finalmente se presenta un esbozo de las características del contexto en el cual se está reconfigurando el concepto heredado de la modernidad, así como los retos éticos y políticos que nos propone esta época para el futuro, con la recuperación de la ciudadanía como participación. Con lo anterior, se espera contribuir a la reflexión sobre el problema de la formación ciudadana en perspectiva histórica.</p><p> </p>