Bowling Green State University

About: Bowling Green State University is a education organization based out in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8315 authors who have published 16042 publications receiving 482564 citations. The organization is also known as: BGSU.

Optimal Monetary Policy in a Model with Agency Costs

Abstract: This paper integrates a fully explicit model of agency costs into an otherwise standard Dynamic New Keynesian model in a particularly transparent way. A principal result is the characterization of agency costs as endogenous markup shocks in an output-gap version of the Phillips curve. The model's utility-based welfare criterion is derived explicitly and includes a measure of credit market tightness that we interpret as a risk premium. The paper also fully characterizes optimal monetary policy and provides conditions under which zero inflation is the optimal policy. Finally, optimal policy can be expressed as an inflation targeting criterion that (depending upon parameter values) can be either forward or backward looking.

Religion and HIV: a review of the literature and clinical implications.

Abstract: Despite substantive research documenting the connection between various religious dimensions and physical and mental health, surprisingly little attention has been given to the study of religion among individuals with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although initially considered to be a white, “gay man’s” disease, today women and ethnic minorities are subgroups that are the most severely affected by the HIV pandemic. Importantly, these disenfranchised subgroups report greater use of religion in their everyday lives. A small but growing number of studies conducted mostly within the past few years have recognized the importance of religion in the lives of individuals with HIV. In particular, research has noted the frequent use of religious coping by men and women with HIV to deal with the loss of their loved ones to AIDS, to overcome their sense of guilt and shame in engaging in risky behaviors, and to find a renewed sense of purpose in life. However, clinical interventions with persons with HIV have largely neglected religiousness and spirituality as resources for treatment and, to date, few spirituality-based interventions exist that can be empirically evaluated. In this paper, we review the literature on religious coping among individuals with HIV and outline a clinical intervention that incorporates religious issues relevant to this population. We first provide an overview of religious coping.