Interaction of monetary and fiscal policy from a historical perspective: Precious metals and Venetian government debt

Was monetary policy crucial for early sovereign debt sustainability? This paper analyses whether the availability of gold and silver drove Venetian government debt servicing costs in the late medieval period.We use an error correction model to describe changes in yields on perpetual bonds issued by the Venetian state.We document that the ability of

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Experimental Investigations of Injection and Combustion Parameters of a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engine with a Multi-Injection Common Rail System

This work experimentally investigates the most imperative parameters that control the injection and combustion processes in a multi-injection HCCI Diesel engine namely; fuel-line pressure, timing of multi-injection Bronzers events and the resulting in-cylinder pressure.These parameters in addition to the heat release rates are evaluated at differen

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Modeling and Analysis of the Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Acoustofluidic Fields in the Probe-Type and Substrate-Type Ultrasonic Micro/Nano Manipulation Systems

The probe-type and substrate-type ultrasonic micro/nano manipulation systems have proven to be two kinds of powerful tools for manipulating micro/nanoscale materials.Numerical simulations of acoustofluidic fields in these two kinds of systems can not only be used to explain and analyze the physical mechanisms of experimental phenomena, but also pro

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