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Secrets of a Fortune Cookie

A Memoir

By: Vanessa S. Yang

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What constitutes a good parent, and when do they go too far? We often hear stereotypes associated with strict Asian parenting, and yet, although the accreditations on paper are known to many, still we find ourselves wondering, But at what costs? Secrets of a Fortune Cookie: A Memoir describes the harrowing journey of author Vanessa Yang, a young woman of Chinese descent, who was born in Singapore and educated in schools across the globe. She experienced a traditional Asian-style upbringing, with no consideration to social development. As a strictly raised Chinese Singaporean expatriate student in international schools, she was also influenced by her friends and peersand their Western ideals. Her mothers relentless Eastern upbringing, dominated by an isolated focus on academics alone, was not a productive fit to a teenagers growing desires to fit in and find encouragement and love. These disparate experiences and lifestyles were the seeds of her vicious teen rebellion against everything her parents honored, and it was these acts of defiance that ultimately climaxed her insecurities. Satirically funny and heartrending by turns, her story of independent self-discovery brings to light, the aptly pondered detriments of the causes and consequences of stereotypical Asian-style parenting. In the end, the clash of cultures she and her sisters faced drove her to resort to drastic measures in order to find the love and confidence she never received at home. A remarkable memoir with valuable life lessons, Secrets of a Fortune Cookie offers an inspiring look at a young womans turbulent past.

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BalboaPress

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1452503486

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Sampling and Analysis of Indoor Microorganisms

By: Chin S. Yang,Patricia A. Heinsohn

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Sampling and Analysis of Indoor Microorganisms

By: Chin S. Yang,Patricia A. Heinsohn

Investigation techniques and analytical methodologies for addressing microbial contamination indoors Microbial contamination indoors is a significant environmental and occupational health and safety problem. This book provides fundamental background information on fungal and bacterial growth indoors as well as in-depth, practical approaches to analyzing and remedying problems. The information helps investigators, laboratory managers, and environmental health professionals properly use state-of-the-science methods and correctly interpret the results. With chapters by expert microbiologists, mycologists, environmental professionals, and industrial hygienists, Sampling and Analysis of Indoor Microorganisms is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive reference on advanced approaches, covering: Microbiological problems in a water-damaged environment Indoor construction techniques and materials that impact environmental microbiology Microbial ecology indoors, airborne bacteria, genetic-based analytical methods, and statistical tools for microorganism analysis Microbiological sampling approaches Mold removal principles and methods, including specialized microbial remediation techniques for HVAC systems, legionellas and biofilms, and sewage contamination A forensic approach toward the assessment of fungal growth in the indoor environment A must-have guide for practicing professionals, including environmental health and safety personnel, public health officials, and building and construction engineers and architects, this is also a valuable reference for attorneys, home inspectors, water restoration personnel, mold remediation contractors, insurance adjusters, and others.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470112425

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9780470112427

Practical Management of Pediatric and Adult Brachial Plexus Palsies E-Book

By: Kevin C. Chung,Lynda J-S Yang,John E. McGillicuddy

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Practical Management of Pediatric and Adult Brachial Plexus Palsies E-Book

By: Kevin C. Chung,Lynda J-S Yang,John E. McGillicuddy

Practical Management of Pediatric and Adult Brachial Plexus Palsies covers in-depth surgical techniques for managing disorders of this crucial nerve complex so that you can most effectively treat injuries in patients of any age. Drs. Kevin Chung, Lynda Yan, and John McGillicuddy present a multidisciplinary approach to pediatric brachial plexus injury treatment and rehabilitation, obstetric considerations, and other hot topics in the field. With access to the full text and surgical videos online at expertconsult.com, you’ll have the dynamic, visual guidance you need to manage injuries to the brachial plexus. Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with surgical videos demonstrating how to perform key procedures. See cases as they present in practice through color illustrations, photos, and diagrams that highlight key anatomical structures and relationships. Apply multidisciplinary best practices with advice from internationally respected authorities in neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, and other relevant fields. Hone your technique with coverage that emphasizes optimizing outcomes with pearls and discussions of common pitfalls. Prepare for collaborating with other physicians thanks to a multidisciplinary approach that covers medical and legal aspects in addition to surgery. Find information quickly and easily with a full-color layout.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437736238

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9781437736236

Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows

By: Eric M. Leeper,Todd B. Walker,Ms.Susan S. Yang

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Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows

By: Eric M. Leeper,Todd B. Walker,Ms.Susan S. Yang

News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading example of foresight, simple theory makes transparent the economic behavior and information structures that generate non-fundamental equilibria. Econometric analyses that fail to model foresight will obtain biased estimates of output multipliers for taxes; biases are quantitatively important when two canonical theoretical models are taken as data generating processes. Both the nature of equilibria and the inferences about the effects of anticipated tax changes hinge critically on hypothesized information flows. Different methods for extracting or hypothesizing the information flows are discussed and shown to be alternative techniques for resolving a non-uniqueness problem endemic to moving average representations.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475504357

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9781475504354

Government Spending Effects in Low-income Countries

By: Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

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Government Spending Effects in Low-income Countries

By: Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

Despite the voluminous literature on fiscal policy, very few papers focus on low-income countries (LICs). This paper develops a new-Keynesian small open economy model to show, analytically and through simulations, that some of the prevalent features of LICs—different types of financing including aid, the marginal efficiency of public investment, and the degree of home bias—play a key role in determining the effects of fiscal policy and related multipliers in these countries. External financing like aid increases the resource envelope of the economy, mitigating the private sector crowding out effects of government spending and pushing up the output multiplier. The same external financing, however, tends to appreciate the real exchange rate and as a result, traded output can respond quite negatively, reducing the overall output multiplier. Although capital scarcity implies high returns to public capital in LICs, declines in public investment efficiency can substantially dampen the output multiplier. Since LICs often import substantial amounts of goods, public investment may not be as effective in stimulating domestic production in the short run.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513578979

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S

By: Ms.Susan S. Yang,Ms.Nora Traum

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S

By: Ms.Susan S. Yang,Ms.Nora Traum

A New Keynesian model allowing for an active monetary and passive fiscal policy (AMPF) regime and a passive monetary and active fiscal policy (PMAF) regime is fit to various U.S. samples from 1955 to 2007. Data in the pre-Volcker periods strongly prefer an AMPF regime, but the estimation is not very informative about whether the inflation coefficient in the interest rate rule exceeds one in pre-Volcker samples. Also, whether a government spending increase yields positive consumption in a PMAF regime depends on price stickiness. An income tax cut can yield a negative labor response if monetary policy aggressively stabilizes output.

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International Monetary Fund

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1455209430

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9781455209439

Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies

An Application to Angola

By: Christine J. Richmond,Irene Yackovlev,Ms.Susan S. Yang

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Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies

An Application to Angola

By: Christine J. Richmond,Irene Yackovlev,Ms.Susan S. Yang

Natural resource revenues are an increasingly important financing source for public investment in many developing economies. Investing volatile resource revenues, however, may subject an economy to macroeconomic instability. This paper applies to Angola the fiscal framework developed in Berg et al. (forthcoming) that incorporates investment inefficiency and absorptive capacity constraints, often encountered in developing countries. The sustainable investing approach, which combines a stable fiscal regime with external savings, can convert resource wealth to development gains while maintaining economic stability. Stochastic simulations demonstrate how the framework can be used to inform allocations between capital spending and external savings when facing uncertain oil revenues. An overly aggressive investment scaling-up path could result in insufficient fiscal buffers when faced with negative oil price shocks. Consequently, investment progress can be interrupted, driving up the capital depreciation rate, undermining economic stability, and lowering the growth benefits of public investment.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484313577

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9781484313572

The Effects of Government Spending Under Limited Capital Mobility

By: Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang

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The Effects of Government Spending Under Limited Capital Mobility

By: Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang

This paper studies the effects of government spending under limited international capital mobility, as featured by most developing countries. While external financing of government debt mitigates the crowding-out effect, it generates real appreciation, which contracts traded output and lowers the fiscal multiplier in the short run. The decline of the multiplier is larger when facing debt-elastic country risk premia. Also, government spending is more expansionary with more home bias in government purchases, more sectoral rigidities, and a less flexible exchange rate. Whether the twin-deficit hypothesis holds depends crucially on the extent to which government deficits are financed externally.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475562160

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Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries

By: Mr.Andrew Berg,Rafael Portillo,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

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Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries

By: Mr.Andrew Berg,Rafael Portillo,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

Natural resource revenues provide a valuable source to finance public investment in developing countries, which frequently face borrowing constraints and tax revenue mobilization problems. This paper develops a dynamic stochastic small open economy model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of investing natural resource revenues, making explicit the role of pervasive features in these countries including public investment inefficiency, absorptive capacity constraints, Dutch disease, and financing needs to sustain capital. Revenue exhaustibility raises medium-term issues of how to sustain capital built during a windfall, while revenue volatility raises short-term concerns about macroeconomic instability. Using the model, country applications show how combining public investment with a resource fund---a sustainable investing approach---can help address the macroeconomic problems associated with both exhaustibility and volatility. The applications also demonstrate how the model can be used to determine the appropriate magnitude of the investment scaling-up (accounting for the financing needs to sustain capital) and the adequate size of a stabilization fund (buffer).

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1475535562

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction

Applications to Papua New Guinea

By: Mr.Suman S Basu,Jan Gottschalk,Mr.Werner Schule,Mr.Nikhil Vellodi,Ms.Susan S. Yang

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction

Applications to Papua New Guinea

By: Mr.Suman S Basu,Jan Gottschalk,Mr.Werner Schule,Mr.Nikhil Vellodi,Ms.Susan S. Yang

To investigate the effects on Papua New Guinea’s economy of substantial liquified natural gas revenues arriving in 2015, we employ a model to examine the macroeconomic effects of a scalingup of natural resource windfall revenues and the implications for a variety of policy responses. The model is a multi-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, and features components that allow for a detailed study of the effects of both fiscal and monetary policy in response to a positive shock to the mineral resource value of a country. The model contains tradable, non-tradable, and mining sectors, as well as an independent central bank and fiscal authority. We calibrate the model to the current economy of Papua New Guinea and run a suite of policy simulations. We find that macroeconomic effects from a resource boom typically associated with Dutch Disease effects such as a real appreciation and a fall in tradable sector production stem largely from the non-tradable component of government spending. The central bank can offset the real appreciation, but not without crowding out the private sector. A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), combined with a smooth capital spending path, entails the best means of dealing with macroeconomic volatility and maintaining a stable fiscal regime.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484321375

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Fiscal Limits, External Debt, and Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries

By: Huixin Bi,Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang

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Fiscal Limits, External Debt, and Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries

By: Huixin Bi,Ms.Wenyi Shen,Ms.Susan S. Yang

This paper studies fiscal policy effects in developing countries with external debt and sovereign default risks. State-dependent distributions of fiscal limits are simulated based on macroeconomic uncertainty and fiscal policy specifications. The analysis shows that expected future revenue plays an important role in the low fiscal limits of developing countries, relative to those of developed countries. External debt carries additional risks since large devaluation of the real exchange rate can suddenly raise default probabilities. Consistent with majority views, fiscal consolidations are counterproductive in the short and medium runs. When an economy approaches its fiscal limits, government spending can be less expansionary than in a low-debt state. As more revenue is required to service debt in a high-debt state, higher tax rates raise the economic cost of increasing consumption, reducing the fiscal multiplier.

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International Monetary Fund

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147558265X

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Debt Sustainability, Public Investment, and Natural Resources in Developing Countries

the DIGNAR Model

By: Mr.Giovanni Melina,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

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Debt Sustainability, Public Investment, and Natural Resources in Developing Countries

the DIGNAR Model

By: Mr.Giovanni Melina,Ms.Susan S. Yang,Luis-Felipe Zanna

This paper presents the DIGNAR (Debt, Investment, Growth, and Natural Resources) model, which can be used to analyze the debt sustainability and macroeconomic effects of public investment plans in resource-abundant developing countries. DIGNAR is a dynamic, stochastic model of a small open economy. It has two types of households, including poor households with no access to financial markets, and features traded and nontraded sectors as well as a natural resource sector. Public capital enters production technologies, while public investment is subject to inefficiencies and absorptive capacity constraints. The government has access to different types of debt (concessional, domestic and external commercial) and a resource fund, which can be used to finance public investment plans. The resource fund can also serve as a buffer to absorb fiscal balances for given projections of resource revenues and public investment plans. When the fund is drawn down to its minimal value, a combination of external and domestic borrowing can be used to cover the fiscal gap in the short to medium run. Fiscal adjustments through tax rates and government non-capital expenditures—which may be constrained by ceilings and floors, respectively—are then triggered to maintain debt sustainability. The paper illustrates how the model can be particularly useful to assess debt sustainability in countries that borrow against future resource revenues to scale up public investment.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475521073

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Australia

Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Framework—Technical Note

By: International Monetary Fund

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Australia

Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Framework—Technical Note

By: International Monetary Fund

Australia has a history of few bank failures, even fewer financial crises, and its banking sector emerged from the global financial crisis relatively well.1 With an eye toward international developments, the Australian authorities have taken commendable steps to strengthen the financial safety net and crisis management framework over the last several years. The Government’s well-coordinated response to the global financial crisis included adopting significant legislative changes in October 2008 to put in place guarantee arrangements for retail deposits, among other enhancements to the financial safety net and crisis management framework. Further improvements were made in June 2010 and the Government is currently pursuing additional legislative changes.

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1475563051

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Arthritis But Didn't Know What to Ask

By: Alexander D. Rosenstein,William D. Ratnoff,Stephen S. Yang

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Arthritis But Didn't Know What to Ask

By: Alexander D. Rosenstein,William D. Ratnoff,Stephen S. Yang

This book was written in order to help patients suffering from arthritis-related discomfort of the shoulder, hip, and/or knee joints. This book is not intended to replace the very important relationship between the patient and his or her doctor. This book is designed to assist with communication between patients and physicians. Specifically, this book will enable patients to ask highly productive questions and obtain the most useful information from their medical care providers (doctors, physicians' assistants, nurses, etc.) during their appointments or telephone conversations. The chapters are organized to cover different aspects of Arthritis and concurring treatments. There may be some overlap of information within the chapters, which is due to the intertwining nature of various arthritis treatments. The treatment options described in the book are the most up-to-date at the time this book was written. The reader should be aware that our understanding of arthritis and treatment options is constantly expanding and some of the explanations and recommendations may be out of date, even before the final publication process is completed. Nevertheless, our sincere hope is that this material will provide important knowledge to a patient suffering from arthritis and will contribute to an improved quality of life.

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0615550622

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Americanizing Latino Politics, Latinoizing American Politics

By: Rodolfo O. de la Garza,Alan S. Yang

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Americanizing Latino Politics, Latinoizing American Politics

By: Rodolfo O. de la Garza,Alan S. Yang

Using the most extensive and currently available survey opinion data, this book empirically supports the argument that Latinos have emerged as a convergent panethnic political group, beyond the individual national origin identities dating to the time of the 1990 Latino National Political Survey when Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans were treated conceptually as politically distinct groups. Replete with data and supplemented by an extensive online resource, this book offers scholars, students, and sophisticated general readers evidence and inspiration for understanding the dynamics of Latino politics in the U.S. today.

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1138483540

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9781138483545

Australia: Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Framework Technical Note

By: International Monetary Fund

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Australia: Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Framework Technical Note

By: International Monetary Fund

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Oxford University Press

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1475576226

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9781475576221

The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections: Party Activists and Political Aggregation from 2004 to 2012

By: A. Dowdle,S. Limbocker,S. Yang,K. Sebold,P. Stewart

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The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections: Party Activists and Political Aggregation from 2004 to 2012

By: A. Dowdle,S. Limbocker,S. Yang,K. Sebold,P. Stewart

This book looks at networks of individual donors during early stages of presidential primary electons to determine party unity. It directly challenges the commonly-held perception that a "divisive" primary is a problem for the political party in the general election.

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Palgrave Pivot

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1349458570

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