Ground truth data requirements for altimeter performance verification

The amount and type of ground truth required for an altimeter experiment is a function of the uncertainty in the satellite orbit, the altimeter error budget and the type of operation being performed. Ground truth requirements will be discussed with reference to three areas of operation: the global mode, the high intensity mode and calibration

Electro-optic modulator for infrared laser using gallium arsenide crystal

Gallium arsenide electro-optic modulator used for infrared lasers has a mica quarter-wave plate and two calcite polarizers to amplitude or phase modulate an infrared laser light source in the wavelength range from 1 to 3 microns. The large single crystal has uniformly high resistivities, is strain free, and comparable in quality to good optical glass

Deregulation in New Zealand

New Zealand ; Financial institutions - New Zealand

Measuring money

Monetary policy - United States ; Money supply

Exact intervals and tests for median when one sample value possibly an outlier

Confidence intervals and significance tests for mean of symmetrical population with outlier observation not largest or smalles

Efficent estimation of distribution for extreme observations in sample and nonsample cases Progress report, period ending 31 Dec. 1968

Estimation of distribution for extreme observations in sample and nonsample case

Are contemporary central banks transparent about economic models and objectives and what difference does it make? - commentary

Monetary policy ; Econometric models ; Banks and banking, Central

Monetary targeting and inflation: 1976-1984

Inflation (Finance) ; Monetary policy - United States ; Money supply

A primer on monetary policy. Part II, targets and indicators

Monetary policy - United States ; Interest rates ; Economic indicators

Asset Prices, Substitution Effects, and the Impact of Changes in Asset Stocks

The standard result in macroeconomic models is that an increase in the stock of government debt has an ambiguous effect on aggregate demand. Models which have derived this result have assumed that all assets are gross substitutes. Some recent work within the framework of mean-variance portfolio models, however, seems to imply that the assumption that all assets are gross substitutes is sufficient to determine whether an increase in government debt is expansionary or contractionary. This apparent inconsistency is resolved by showing that gross substitutability is sufficient to sign the impact of a change in government debt only when money is riskless. To carry out the analysis, portfolio choice and equilibrium asset prices are characterized in a new way through the use of a distance function.