ADVISORY/Central Bank Pours Millions Into World Economy, Experts Available for Comment.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2001 TOPIC: The United State's Central Bank moved Thursday to supply the banking system in the U.S. and Europe with $120 billion in emergency short-term funds so that banks on both continents with U.S. customers can meet withdrawal demands resulting from the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, the Chicago Tribune reports. Those funds, on top of $38 billion in emergency money supplied by the central bank to U.S. banks on Wednesday, are aimed at making sure that insurance companies and others could withdraw needed funds quickly and without disruption to financial markets, the story says. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Prof. Gregory Hess teaches at Oberlin College Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio; coeducational; opened 1833 as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, became Oberlin College in 1850. It includes a college of arts and sciences and a well-known conservatory of music. . He has been an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, a visiting scholar A visiting scholar, in the world of academia, is a scholar from an institution who visits a receiving university that hosts him where he or she is projected to teach (visiting professor), lecture (visiting lecturer), or perform research (visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , and has given presentations at nine regional Federal Reserve banks in the U.S. He has broad experience in understanding central bank behavior, and much of his research focuses on the interactions between politics and economics. He has published papers on the political business cycle as well as on predicting the use of force in conflict resolution. 440/775-8592 Prof. Michael Intriligator works in the departments of economics and political science at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and is director of the school's Center for International Relations international relations, study of the relations among states and other political and economic units in the international system. Particular areas of study within the field of international relations include diplomacy and diplomatic history, international law, . Intriligator's research interests are in the areas of economic theory, econometrics econometrics, technique of economic analysis that expresses economic theory in terms of mathematical relationships and then tests it empirically through statistical research. , health economics, strategy and arms control arms control Limitation of the development, testing, production, deployment, proliferation, or use of weapons through international agreements. Arms control did not arise in international diplomacy until the first Hague Convention (1899). . His most recent work has focused on health care reform, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, global security and the transition to a market economy in Russia. PR: Harlan Lebo; Stuart Wolpert hlebo@college.ucla.edu; stuartw@college.ucla.edu Prof. Edward Greenberg is a political scientist at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
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