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Furthermore, high dollarization makes depreciation a dangerous process for the financial sector, as many people with loans or debts in US dollars are unable to pay. In addition, high and persistent dollarization constrains the effectiveness of the monetary policy, as the transmission of the monetary policy to the market interest rates and real variables are rather limited.
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2016 წლის 29 ნოემბერს, ევროკავშირის მიერ დაფინანსებული ენპარდის (ENPARD) პროგრამის ფარგლებში, „ჰოტელს ენდ პრეფერენს ჰუალინგ თბილისში“ გაიმართა უწყებათაშორისი ფორუმი – კოოპერატივების ხელმისაწვდომობა ფინანსებზე. ფორუმი მიზნად ისახავდა კოოპერატივებისათვის ფინანსებზე წვდომასთან დაკავშირებული გამოწვევებისა და შესაძლებლობების განხილვას.
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On November 25, ISET started a policy seminar series provided by the second-year students of ISET’s MA program. The first presentation was delivered by Tamar Bregvadze, Mariam Chachava, Kamran Gasimov, and Yervand Martirosyan under the supervision of the head of Energy Concentration at ISET, Norberto Pignatti.
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On November 21, Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel gave a presentation of a working paper entitled “Trade Costs for Heterogeneous Agricultural Products” at ISET. The professor himself and Mr. Yi Qu are the co-others of the paper, which aims to evaluate trade costs for 125 different agricultural products based on 1992-2011 data from 156 different countries.
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On November 7, ISET hosted Professor Rögnvaldur Hannesson of the Norwegian School of Economics, who gave a presentation entitled ‘Tradable Fish Quotas and Return on Capital in Norwegian Fisheries’.