... sector debt held by the private sector The purchase of long- termgovernment paper by the central bank which issues short -term debt is fundamentally equivalent to thegovernment shifting from long- term ... at the actual structure and market standing of existing medium and long- termdebt … the argument that continuous borrowing gives the borrower command of the market can only be true if the borrower ... in debtmanagement in the broadest sense, and both have powers to influence the whole spectrum of debt But monetary policy refers particularly to determination of the supply of demand debt, and...
... concentrate upon short -term debts and to leave the price of long- term debts to be influenced by belated and imperfect reactions from the price of short -term debts – though … there is no reason why they ... (b) Governmentdebtmanagementandthe long- terminterestrate Imperfect substitutability between assets of different maturities means that governmentdebtmanagement choices matter for the long- term ... portfolio-balancing andthe substitutability between short -term and long- term debts For the reasons discussed above, such substitutability will not be uniform either across countries or over time The...
... colleagues [3] and reinforces the need for longer term follow up and outcome variables in clinical studies of the critically ill Resuscitation At the opposite end of the temporal spectrum, Wik and colleagues ... done There has been increasing interest in both the quality and quantity of sleep that critically ill patients experience, not least because there is a strong association between depravation and ... the efficacy of sign recruitment in supine and prone positioning [13] They demonstrated the potential value of the combination of sigh ventilation and prone positioning in 10 ARDS patients, and...
... actions andinterest rates also casts doubt on the standard view For example, studies by Cook and Hahn (198 9b) and by Radecki and Reinhart examined the response of short -term and long- term rates to ... future short -term rates to fall and leads to lower short -term and long- term rates Evidence on the relationship between policy actions andinterest rates In the standard view of the monetary transmission ... theory of theterm structure of interest rates In this theory, longterm rates are an average of current short -term rates and expected future short -term rates Monetary policy affects long- term rates...
... short -term and long- termgovernment bonds of maturity L, Btu and Bu , at prices given by 1/R1,t and 1/RL,t , L,t and, to hold real money balances to be carried to the next period Their objective ... long- terminterest rates would be determined solely by the expected path of the short rate However, in practice, long- terminterest rates appear to deviate from the expected path of short -term rates ... issues about the use of long- terminterestrate rules In particular, can long- terminterestrate rules achieve a unique equilibrium if an endogenous risk premium prices long- term debt? And if...
... deposit rates andthe costs attributed to the ELG 4.2 Structural break tests In the first instance we test for a breakdown in the relationship between the variable rateand Euribor in or around the ... spread between the short -term interbank rates (Euribor) and variable rates in the post-2008 period We add explanatory variables to the previous panel ECM, as suggested by the literature andthe ... variable, tracker and fixed rate loans In both the owner-occupier and buy-to-let segments, variable rate mortgages account for around one-third of balances The average balance on variable rate...
... England Biolabs) 25 μL PCR product was incubated for hours at 37οC with 2μl SspI 5Units/μl and 3μl 10xBuffer A 3.5% agarose/Tris-borate EDTA gel with ethidium bromide staining was used and bands ... and fixed effects exist, the effects of between- and within-subjects factors as well as the interaction between factors and covariates and its effects are analyzed The difference between LR and ... co-administrated drug therapies and their interactions, renal and hepatic function, nutritional and other habbits, are often responsible for the intra- and inter-individual variability seen after...
... due to the central place of the German policy in the European Monetary System before the launch of the ECB and because the German bond rates remain the benchmark for the long- terminterest rates ... Orphanides and Williams (2003) demonstrate also on a theoretical basis how the observed overreaction of long- terminterest rates to the short -term interestrate could be explained by the presence ... interest rates in the euro area The selection of the short -term interest rates then follows our choice for long- terminterest rates andthe expectations theory Until 1998, the German bond rates evolved...
... providers by tape or disk All publicly available data are accessible through EBI and DDBJ PF: It will continue to be available from the EBI The data are currently mirrored GB Editorial Team Genome Biology ... change, but computer disks will RK: The EBI’s SRA has a better data submission pipe line than NCBI’s, and I understand the EBI is keen to involve communities to ensure the database is better ... In thelongterm it is probably better to just store the samples and then resequence them with improved technology MG: It’s extremely important that there is a proper archive to put things in The...
... QoL at long- term Page of 10 follow-up; and 3) what predictors at baseline are associated with QoL in the long- term after group CBT We hypothesized that the improvement in QoL in the long- term after ... predictors for better outcomes in QoL in the long- term after CBT have not been established, although several factors including sex and subtype of SAD were found to be associated with better outcomes ... judged by their physicians The patients provided their written informed consent after a full explanation of the objectives and procedures of the present study The study protocol was approved by the...
... homes of their pimps or agents Figure 2 Brothels in Singapore Front of a brothel The interior of a brothel Back alley of a brothel where clients gather A room in the brothel 18 Brothel-based sex ... extent by type and class of brothel establishment, and ethnicity of the sex workers Between 10 and 30 sex workers are housed in each brothel and they are under the control of the brothel owners The ... clarify their misconceptions A more feasible and effective way to reach clients is through brothel managers and sex workers Other benefits of directing preventive strategies at brothel-based sex...
... returns for the equivalent period on matching firm portfolio The results were robust for both of the cumulative average abnormal return andthe three-year buy -and- hold return under either benchmark ... which thereby provides an explanation for the lower long- term performance of IPOs Brav and Gompers (1997) examined whether venture-backed IPO segment performs better than the nonventure-backed ... Research Objectives Given the conflicting evidence about the results on long- term performance of U.S IPOs and many unanswered questions about the long- term performance of Canadian IPOs, this thesis...
... higher the cost of debt Because their hypothesis about the cost of debt is unsupported, they call for further research on 13 CORPORATE ERM ANDTHE COST OF DEBT FLORENT ROSTAING 2009 the topic I intend ... allow the reader to fully understand how the ERM measure is built o The choice of Bloomberg estimates as the cost of debt measure is debatable Sharfman and Fernando not indicate how Bloomberg ... has to be abandoned because cleanup costs exceed the borrower’s balance 17 CORPORATE ERM ANDTHE COST OF DEBT FLORENT ROSTAING 2009 As stated in corporate finance theory, the cost of debt mainly...
... where X is the long- run average for the statistic and 35 is three times the standard deviation of the statistic If the statistic follows the normal distribution (and nearly all will, due to the central ... improvement teams, integrated product and process development teams, and design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) teams These are strong claims, but they can easily be supported by data The first study ... presents the basic form of the HOQ Fig 72.5 The House of Quality (HOQ) and its major elements The A-I matrix starts with either raw (verbatim) or restated customer WHATs and their priorities The...
... information The project team’s office was next to the dealership The MD andthe members of the project team informally discussed their ideas in the corridor, during lunch and at the coffee machine The ... However, the dealerships differed considerably in the success of the change These differences cannot be explained by the accounting information or the way in which this information was introduced The ... time and discussing the issues with their customers In another dealership, the mentality was more proactive The sales personnel of this dealership not only behaved according to the protocol, they...
... efforts to `stop the wound going bad' For 81% of the operations, the daughters had been bathed frequently; with 31% being bathed with hot water and 26% being bathed with salt water Herbs or pastes ... to be established BV has also been associated with low birthweight and pre -term deliveries (Kurki et al 1992), although treatment of BV has not been shown to reduce therate of pre -term babies ... evident in Table but the difference is no longer signi®cant Table 3 (b) shows OR for the endogenous and STIs and cytology After adjusting for age, marital status and parity, BV and HSV2 were both signi®cantly...
... of combining the cost and benefit estimates is by comparing the effects of an increase in the capital ratio by percentage point on GDP Table collects the minimum andthe maximum benefits and costs ... link between the probability of a crisis andthe risk-weighted capital ratio Figure Probability of systemic crises 4.2 Translating the probability of a crisis into GDP In order to compare the benefits ... shaded band shows 5% (between the 5th and 95th percentiles) of the support of the interpolated distribution across banks The diamond shows the median Start of crisis defined as a year before a bank...
... @ NCSU? • • • • Tackle big problems in small pieces Be more transparent Be more adaptable Produce tangible results quickly and frequently What is Agile @ NCSU? • Loosely based on Scrum • Iterative ... defined business analysts Emergencies happen every day Many projects across few people Everyone handles full life cycle And it keeps going… • IT black box – How long? – When will it be ready? ... to the shorter timescale Manifesto for Agile Software Development Accessible at http://agilemanifesto.org/ Agile Principles Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the...
... models), the sign of theterm will depend on whether interest rates are above or below the mean Another hypothesis is that the drift term is zero because interest rates follow a 15 random walk ... which the bank can change the portfolio mix and/ or hedge in the short term would determine the magnitude of the effect of interest- rate changes and other shocks on bank profitability Our second objective ... variable for the change in short -term interest rates (ST_DUMMY1) that controls for the change in the interest- rate environment Coefficients for interest- rate volatility andthe short -term interest- rate...
... mechanismbased inhibitors, thereby revealing the close network of interactions that hold the terminal glucose of the bglucan substrate in the )1 subsite at the bottom of the active site pocket [20] The ... Carbohydrate binding subsites are labelled )1, +1 and +2 Glycosidic bond cleavage occurs between )1 and +1 (C) Comparison of the aromatic triads of Exg and a carbohydrate binding module CBM 4-2 ... to interact with the b- 1,3-glucan substrate Strikingly, the carbohydrate-binding module CBM 4-2 of a bacterial laminarinase, which recognizes the same substrate (laminarin) but which is structurally...