Antonio Garcia

Chaos Monkeys

Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author—the insider's guide to the Facebook/...

Chaos Monkeys

Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An adrenaline-fuelled exposé of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle...

Monografía. El sepulcro de [sir J.] Moore. [With] Version inglesa de A. García Fuertes

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Usability of Bank Capital Buffers: The Role of Market Expectations

Following the COVID shock, supervisors encouraged banks to use capital buffers to support the recovery. However, banks have been reluctant to do so. P...

The Use of Mortgage Covered Bonds

The rapid mortgage credit growth experienced in recent years in mature and emerging countries has raised some stability concerns. Many European credit...

THE SPECTRUM OF JUÁREZ AND THE FOURTH TRANSFORMATION

History has judged President Benito Juárez and one of the conclusions is that he betrayed the pure liberals. Andrés Manuel López Obrador is inspire...

Investment Funds and Financial Stability: Policy Considerations

The paper’s analysis underscores the importance of the ongoing Financial Stability Board-led process of identifying policy options, involving nation...

Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Nineties

Are Any Fit to Survive?

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970's vintage. The canonical pa...

South Africa and United Nations Peacekeeping Offensive Operations

Conceptual Models

The creation of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) as the sharp tactical edge of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic...

Botha, Smuts and the Great War

In Botha, Smuts and the Great War 1914–1918 authors Antonio Garcia and Ian Van Der Waag conducted painstaking research in South Africa and the Unite...

Analysis of the Empirical Relations Between Visible Solar Radiation, the Solar Altitude and the Transparency of the Atmosphere

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A New Risk Indicator and Stress Testing Tool: A Multifactor Nth-to-Default CDS Basket

This paper generalizes a market-based indicator for financial sector surveillance using a multifactor latent structure in the determination of the def...

IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

For many years, IBM® Cluster Systems Management (CSM) provided a single point of management for IBM Power Systems servers running the AIX® operating...

Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Nineties

Are Any Fit to Survive?Are Uniform Tariffs Optimal?

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Toward an Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems

The paper presents a supervisory framework that addresses the vulnerabilities of partially dollarized banking systems. The tendency to underprice syst...

The Best Servant Story

Life of Tony Roam God's Blessed Child

The Best Servant Story, is the guidance of a person life lost in self thoughts; to not know that (one day) there was always someone guiding Him and se...

Mexico: Its Trade, Industries and Resources

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...

Financial Sector Projections and Stress Testing in Financial Programming

A New Framework

This paper proposes a framework to check for consistency between the IMF's standard country surveillance tool, namely medium-term projections of the m...

Botha, Smuts and the First World War

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The First Campaign Victory of the Great War

South Africa, Manoeuvre Warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West African Campaign, 1914-1915

The First Campaign Victory of the Great War provides an insightful account of South Africa's First World War German South West Africa campaign and com...