Commonplace book,

This commonplace book is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Abolishing Oil Indexation in Gas Contracts: Is it the cure-all? CEPS Commentaries, 3 March 2014

Recently, the EU energy debate has been dominated by the discussion on energy prices and the competitiveness of the European industry. According to the latest estimates of the International Energy Agency, gas prices in the US are one-quarter of those in Europe. Moreover, prices of imported gas vary across the EU member states. Some EU policy-makers hope that the completion of the internal energy market and the transition to hub-based pricing will solve these discrepancies. Julian Wieczorkiewicz asks in this Commentary whether the abolition of oil-indexation will constitute a cure-all for the above-mentioned problems.

Eurosystem collateral policy and framework: Was it unduly changed? Bruegel Policy Contribution 2014/14, 17 November 2014

All Eurosystem credit operations, including the important open market operations, need to be based on adequate collateral. Liquidity is provided to banks against collateral at market prices subject to a haircut. The Eurosystem adapted its collateral framework during the crisis to accept lower-rated assets as collateral. Higher haircuts are applied to insure against liquidity risk as well as the greater volatility of prices of lower-rated assets. The adaptation of the collateral framework was necessary to provide sufficient liquidity to banks in the euro area periphery in particular. In crisis countries, special emergency liquidity assistance was provided. More than 80 percent of the European Central Bank’s liquidity (Main Refinancing Operations and Long Term Refinancing Operations) is provided to banks in five countries (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain). The changes in the collateral framework were necessary for the ECB to fulfil its treaty-based mandate of providing liquidity to solvent banks and safeguarding financial stability. The ECB did not take on board excessive risks.

Preferential trade agreements and antidumping actions against members and nonmembers

In a three-country oligopoly model, this paper analyzes a country's decisions concerning antidumping (AD) action against two foreign countries and the relationship between those decisions and regional trade agreements (RTAs). An RTA intensifies product-market competition in the markets of member countries and lowers product prices, while it raises export prices of goods subject to tariff reductions. This effect widens the dumping margin of the non-member firm and narrows the dumping margin of the member firm. If the government is more concerned with domestic firm profit in its AD decision, the RTA may invoke the member's AD action against the nonmember. If the governments attach a sufficiently high value on social welfare, however, the RTA may promote the AD action against the member. If the governments' weight on the domestic firm's profit is neither high nor low, an RTA may block the AD actions against both countries.

Essays in miniature /

Our friends, the books.--Trials of a publisher.--The oppression of notes.--Conversation in novels.--A short defence of villains.--A by-way in fiction.--Comedy of the custom house.--Mr. Wilde's intentions.--Humors of gastronomy.--Children in fiction.--Three famous old maids.--The charm of the familiar.--Old World pets.--Battle of the babies.--The novel of incident.

Reigles des cinq ordres d'architecture /

Added illustrated title-page.

Algemeene ophelderende verklaring van het oud letterschrift : in steenplaatdruk /

Pages 8-66 provide explanations about the plates.

The dawn in Britain,

An epic poem in twenty-four books.

Le Glorie immortali de' trionfi, et heroiche imprese d'ottocento quarantacinque donne illustri antiche, e moderne, dotate di conditioni, e scienze segnalate ... : Tra le quali vi sono molte versate in santità, virginità, penitanza, digiuni, vigilie ... ; Sonoui alquante inuentrici di varie scienze, e mestieri all'vso humano necessarij ... /

British Library, Catalogue of seventeenth century Italian books,

Studies.

Includes section "Review of books."

The agricultural outlook /

Caption title.

Kahei mondai /

Cover title.

The cowslip, or, More cautionary stories in verse /

Publisher's ads, [2] p. at end, according to Moon.

More tales for idle hours.

Plate imprint dated Decr. 1830.

The storm : a juvenile tale : with four coloured engravings.

Aquatints: frontispiece; text illustrations.