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Because of Western influences on Asian culture, Asian women value thinness, which has led to a rise in eating disorders among them. The prevalence of eating disorders has increased steadily among Asian women over the past 20 years. Body dissatisfaction, which is an attitude associated
with body image involving the disdain of one's appearance and weight, is more common among women compared to men. Today, Korean women have greater body dissatisfaction than do U.S. women, a difference that originates prior to adolescence. I examined how the Western mainstream media influences
women's self-image, determining that many women wish to look like celebrities. My findings supported cognitive-behavioral theorists' proposition that low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction contribute greatly to restrained eating. Rapid social change in South Korea, from Confucian to democratic
values, may have exacerbated development of South Korean women's low self-esteem, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders.

The monetary instrument problem is examined in an endowment economy model with various stochastic disturbances, with minimizing the variance of inflation as the policy objective. Following current developments in the theory of fiscal determination of the price level, active or passive fiscal policy is specified to guarantee a unique equilibrium for different monetary policies. The responses of inflation to various structural disturbances in the constant money growth ratepassive fiscal (the active monetary-passive fiscal regime, or the conventional regime where the Ricardian equivalence theorem and the Quantity Theory of Money hold) and the constant interest rate-active fiscal regime (the passive monetary-active fiscal regime, or the regime where fiscal policy determines the price level) are examined. The results are explained based on the role of monetary and fiscal policies in financing government deficit changes and satisfying the government budget constraint in each regime, which is different from the explanations of past research following Poole.

Este trabajo desarrolla modelos "VAR identificados" para Francia y España, con variables monetarias alemanas para identificar shocks de politica monetaria durante el periodo en el que el tipo de cambio esta casi totalmente controlado por el mecanismo de cambio del SME. Se prueban distintos supuestos identificadores para las interacciones contemporaneas de politica monetaria. Las respuestas impulso a shocks de politica monetaria y los parametros estimados de la funcion de reaccion monetaria sugieren que el esquema de identificacion que conlleva una reaccion contemporanea unilateral a politicas monetarias no alemanas al tipo de cambio respecto al marco y al tipo de interes alemanes, y el que conlleva reacciones contemporaneas de la autoridad monetaria no alemana y del tipo de interes aleman a los tipos de cambio bilaterales, parecen supuestos identificadores razonables en estos paises. (sk) (mac)