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Sir William Van Horne (1843–1915), connaisseur bourré de talent dont la renommée est surtout attribuable à sa contribution à la construction du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique, a assemblé l’une des collections les plus complètes de céramiques japonaises en Amérique du Nord. Obsession est un récit lumineux expliquant l’origine et l’évolution de sa passion envers l’étude et l’acquisition de près de 1 200 objets. Ron Graham dresse le profil du personnage plus grand que nature que fut Van Horne en plus de rassembler des essais sur la place qu’il a occupée au sommet des collectionneurs d’art dans le Mille carré doré, ou Golden Square Mile, de Montréal et la pérennité de sa collection après sa mort. En exergue des textes, le lecteur pourra découvrir des documents et des photographies historiques, un catalogue détaillé de plus de trois cents objets exposés au Musée royal de l’Ontario et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, de même qu’une sélection de splendides reproductions des carnets de notes personnels de Van Horne et des aquarelles raffinées provenant des archives du Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario. Publié parallèlement à la tenue d’une importante exposition au musée Gardiner de Toronto et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Obsession présente une remarquable collection replacée dans le contexte de l’existence et de la carrière d’un géant du secteur canadien des affaires au dix-neuvième siècle.

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Real oil prices surged from 2009 through 2014, comparable to the 1970’s oil shock period. Standard explanations based on monopoly markup fall short since inflation remained low after 2009. This paper contributes strong evidence of Granger (1969) predictability of nominal factors to oil prices, using one adjustment to monetary aggregates. This adjustment is the subtraction from the monetary aggregates of the 2008-2009 Federal Reserve borrowing of reserves from other Central Banks (Swaps), made after US reserves turned negative. This adjustment is key in that Granger predictability from standard monetary aggregates is found only with the Swaps subtracted.

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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an irreplaceable ability to create new ideas over their lifetime, suggesting that talent is a central ingredient in the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers—especially those from lower income countries—could accelerate the advancement of the knowledge frontier.

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Why did monetary authorities hold large gold reserves under Bretton Woods (1944–1971) when only the US had to? We argue that gold holdings were driven by institutional memory and persistent habits of central bankers. Countries continued to back currency in circulation with gold reserves, following rules of the pre-WWII gold standard. The longer an institution spent in the gold standard (and the older the policymakers), the stronger the correlation between gold reserves and currency. Since dollars and gold were not perfect substitutes, the Bretton Woods system never worked as expected. Even after radical institutional change, history still shapes the decisions of policymakers.

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This paper assesses external trade statistics in Lao PDR by looking at mirror statistics, and with reference to international experience in compilation and dissemination of external trade data. We find that exports could be underreported by 8 to 50 percent, while imports could be underreported by 30 to 70 percent, and the trade deficit could be 20 percent to 280 percent higher. Underreporting is concentrated in trade with major partners, including Thailand (17 percent of total trade), China (10 percent of total trade) and Vietnam (3 percent of total trade). On the export side, underreporting is concentrated in wood and wood products, while for imports it is concentrated in a much wider variety of products, including food, fuel, vehicles, machinery, chemical products, plastics and rubber, and construction materials. Possible sources and implications of these discrepancies are discussed.

Investments: Energy --- Exports and Imports --- Empirical Studies of Trade --- Regulation and Industrial Policy: General --- Retail and Wholesale Trade --- e-Commerce --- Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: Asia including Middle East --- Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets --- Industry Studies --- Population --- Renewable Resources and Conservation: Issues in International Trade --- Trade: General --- Metals and Metal Products --- Cement --- Glass --- Ceramics --- International economics --- Investment & securities --- Imports --- Exports --- Trade balance --- Trade deficits --- Metals --- International trade --- Commodities --- Balance of trade --- Lao People's Democratic Republic