... into serious difficulties as banks increased margin calls on their lines of credit, raising the threat of forced asset sales At the same time, there are rising questions about the soundness of the ... countries ends in 2007:Q2 2The banking distress and (systemic) banking crises (Finland, Japan, Norway, and Sweden) dates and classifications are based on Caprio and others (2005) 3The sample for the ... for business conditions is the rise in spreads on corporate securities As shown in Figure 1.5, such spreads have widened noticeably in recent months For higher-risk borrowers, the rise has still...
... of a theory of business cycles for "the present crisis is, in fact, a crisis also for the entire theory of business cycles." * The theory of business cycles here set forth, it is believed, is not ... banks in the system are possessed of excess reserves and use them simultaneously to buy bonds issued by the Government the expansion is more widespread and proceeds more rapidly Thus it is This ... dollars, becomes excess reserve for the Reserve Banks On the basis of such excess reserve the Reserve Banks are able to increase their deposits, and hence the new reserves of the member banks, by the...
... banks boost the increase in risk-weighted assets even in businesscycle downturns, savings banks dampen the increase in risk-weighted assets in businesscycle downturns, thereby moderating the ... cooperative banks and run regressions on each of these subsamples separately As the results for the other businesscycle indicators are qualitatively the same, we only present the results for the output ... of thebusinesscycle on the capital buffers of Spanish banks, which they interpret as shortsightedness of banks In contrast, Lindquist (2003) finds a positive effect of thebusinesscycle on the...
... unemployment and vacancies and wage stickiness Indeed, some authors argue that the Mortensen-Pissarides [Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) and Pissarides (2000)] search and matching model cannot explain the ... Portuguese wage setting system In Section the data set and methodology are described The main results and some robustness checks are discussed in Section Conclusions are outlined in Section The Architecture ... the estimates of thes On the other hand, if the least squares solution for β were known, we could easily obtain least squares estimates for the α The normal equations show that these are simply...
... of a theory of business cycles for "the present crisis is, in fact, a crisis also for the entire theory of business cycles." * The theory of business cycles here set forth, it is believed, is not ... banks in the system are possessed of excess reserves and use them simultaneously to buy bonds issued by the Government the expansion is more widespread and proceeds more rapidly Thus it is This ... dollars, becomes excess reserve for the Reserve Banks On the basis of such excess reserve the Reserve Banks are able to increase their deposits, and hence the new reserves of the member banks, by the...
... durations across sectors/types of goods, with services being associated with the largest degree of price rigidities, and unprocessed food and energy with the smallest The literature also contains several ... which they can adjust the prices of the goods and services they sell Alternatively, firms may face some costs of adjusting those prices The same kind of friction applies to workers in the presence ... of a stochastic process for all the economy s endogenous variables consistent with optimal intertemporal decisions by households and firms, given their objectives and constraints and with the clearing...
... I ! = 0, this doesn’t really tell us anything useful about I Thus, P P we consider subsets of , rather than individual elements of e Distribution of B T If is constant, then n o Z T ... is a martingale under IP 192 Lemma 1.54 (Baye s Rule) If X is F t-measurable ands t T , then f IE X jF s = Z s IE XZ tjF s : Proof: It is clear that Z 1s IE XZ tjF s is ... y2 dy (Substitute y = T + b) y = T + b = p 2T ,1 = 0: CHAPTER 17 Girsanov s theorem andthe risk-neutral measure 191 fe We can also see that I B T = by arguing directly from the density formula...
... on the scientific basis, framework and scope of the system, and presents plans for future action The use of the system is highlighted by presenting its main product: an indicator-based assessment ... issues which are new or re-emerging and are associated with changes in behaviour, social structures andthe situation in countries For each RPG, the assessment addresses the following issues: ... INDICATOR-BASED ASSESSMENT ANDTHE QUESTIONS IT ANSWERS Children s health andthe environment in Europe: a baseline assessment is based on policy-relevant indicators and information available in the system...
... misfortunes and strange occurrences, and it lasts till Fate in the author 's hand restores the hero to his former shape and honours Gandharba-Sena is a quasi-historical personage, who lived in the ... miraculous means The usurper reigned 24 years and months, andthe throne of Delhi continued in the hands of his sixteen successors, who reigned 641 years and months Vikrama-pala, the last, was slain ... front gathered the bards chanting the praises of the gods and of the king; also the charioteers, elephanteers, horsemen, and soldiers of valour Amongst the learned men in those assemblies there...
... products Plants and mushrooms: berries, seeds, leaves Drugs of abuse: alcohol, illicit drugs of abuse, tobacco Pesticides: insecticides, rodenticides, herbicides Bites and stings: "envenoming" by snakes, ... pollutants and pharmaceuticals), physical (to radiation and heat) and biological (to viruses and parasites) They can also be exposed to pollutants that pass into their mother s milk Neither of these ... Recognize signs, symptoms and diseases due to acute and chronic toxic exposures in children Know how to assess, prevent and treat children 's toxic exposures This presentation deals with...
... most pronounced at lower values The kinetic constants, obtained using the curve-fitting procedure and describing the affinity of the subunits for the substrate (KS1 and KS2) and for Pi (KI1 and ... constants KI1 and KI2, describing the affinity for Pi, differ less than constants KS1 and KS2 Therefore, the dimer with the substrate bound to the high affinity subunit (21) is more stable than the ... describes the catalytic cycle of APase emphasizing the advantages that such a mechanism could have in conjunction to the proposed biological role of APase Materials and methods Dialysis of the...
... discussion see [39,107,108]) However, this is not the only possibility, because it is also possible that the ancestor of mitochondria (or chloroplasts, in the case of plant-speci®c acquisitions) ... for discussions on plant MDH, and Dr Mikio Nishimura (Okasaki) for discussions on plant peroxisomal enzymes This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft REFERENCES Altschul, S. F., ... L-malate The enzyme occurs as class I and class II types which have no detectable sequence similarity Class I fumarases have only been found in prokaryotes to date whereas class II fumarases, the...
... Stress Disorder after Hurricane Andrew in the south-eastern USA found that children are 2-3 times more likely than adults to suffer symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and that these symptoms ... increase the risks of death and serious illness The very old, the very young andthe sick are particularly vulnerable to thermal stress Children are less able than adults to modify their local (usually ... atmospheric pollutants, including pesticides; sexually transmissible diseases; and 'lifestyle' diseases, including obesity and cardiovascular disease risk; are of great current and potential importance...
... characteristics including the ability to activate and detoxify carcinogens, the presence of stem cells, and possibly others Usefulness for human risk estimation would be strengthened by the study of these ... breast cancer and soft tissue sarcoma Ultraviolet sunlight causes an increased risk of skin cancers There is a higher incidence of skin cancers in the southern United States as compared with the ... AND TYPES OF CHILDHOOD CANCER CAUSES, RISK FACTORS AND HYPOTHESES BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES LEADING TO CANCER DEVELOPMENT EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT AND ITS CHALLENGES INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL CANCER CLUSTERS...
... request to the US server, which replies to the proxy The proxy then sends the file to the requesting user, and stores the file locally in a cache When additional users send their requests for the file ... every time someone in that town requests the page, their request travels across the Atlantic, reaches the US server, which in turn sends the page back across the Atlantic to the requester in Europe ... from the users and forward them on their behalf Now, when the first user requests the document, the request goes to the proxy If the proxy cache does not contain the document, it makes a request...
... growth strategies is the fact that this fiscal stimulus has included an investment component However, as discussed in subsequent sections, the amount and composition of this component is too small, ... has been subsidies to the existing domestic supply chain and/ or to consumers (i.e., demand stimulation) In other cases, various forms of trade barriers are erected Because of the stigma associated ... accumulated economic assets The owners of these assets face considerable risk in writing them off and shifting to a new asset mix with the consequent short-term increase in expenditures and uncertain...
... make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”21 The Stahls viewed themselves as part of the masses, the class that the rest rested ... told the story of his business life Then he sat, leaning forward in a chair, hands clasped and eyebrows raised sympathetically as he listened to the visitor s questions and requests To each of them ... reminded of snake-oil salesmen The folks who ran technology companies saw themselves as Promethean geniuses bringing fire to lesser mortals Other businesses that grubbed in the ashes to make the dull...
... fish are the most toxic Poisoning causes gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and neurological symptoms, such as a reversal of hot/cold sensations Other dinoflagellates produce shellfish poisonings ... greenhouse gases can lead to respiratory diseases, sunburn, melanoma, and immunosuppression Second, climate change may directly cause heat stroke,drowning, gastrointestinal diseases, and psychosocial ... was mildly elevated in the burrito samples, and there is no evidence that it causes these symptoms Several plant toxins, such as phytohemagglutinin, may survive cooking and cause gastrointestinal...