Lead-up

Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.

While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.

If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.

The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.