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... are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part of the interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the questions, and possible ... and weight, numbers of pregnancies, substance use, sex with males (including nonvoluntary sex and STD/HIV risking behaviors), sex with females, condom use at last sex of any type, sexual orientation ... includes data on the circumstances of first intercourse, characteristics of the first partners, as well as numbers of sexual partners These measures are important for understanding and developing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... earnings as measured by ROA, and worse liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets These results closely follow the univariate results ... components and likely seriously misclassifies “problem banks.” For all of these reasons, we not consider Torna s study to be a close substitute for ours The second point that we wish to make in this section ... to failure Robustness Checks and Extensions In this section, we provide a set of robustness checks on our basic results, as well as extending them in interesting ways First, we exclude our technical...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... liquidate such assets or significantly cut back on purchases of new securities, a move some contend could damage the U. S economy Still others contend that China s purchases of U. S securities was ... flows to the United States Thus, Chinese purchases of all types of U. S securities (not just Treasury securities) should be considered when attempting to understand the impact China s investment ... portfolio holdings of U. S securities by country and reports data for the previous year as of the end of June 19 The latest Treasury survey of portfolio holdings of U. S securities was issued on April...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Rice and Strahan (2010) Federal Housing ... (Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), and two Great Plains states (Montana and North Dakota) Figure shows the distribution of the depositsbased failure rate measure across states ... Housing Finance Agency FDIC Statistics on Depository Institutions (SDI) www2.fdic.gov/SDI/index.asp> Mortgage Bankers Association Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Authors’...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... percent SOURCE: U. S Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, based on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics ... the Structure of U. S Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale ... funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U. S agriculture The panel was asked to assess the influence of public-sector agricultural research on changes in farm size and numbers,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... highway users.7 The public costs of railroads are not always lower than those for trucks Railroads impose other social costs, such as accidents at grade crossings and in rail yards Trains also emit ... Concerns About Rail Infrastructure The broad economic importance of logistics systems and their impacts on transportation networks raise questions about railroad infrastructure and systems that ... rates to their largest customers as they worked to stimulate demand Shippers, especially small agricultural producers, have loudly protested that the actions of the rail industry since the passage...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 08:20

... Foreign Investors in a U. S Hedge Fund Offshore Funds U. S Investors in Offshore Funds U. S Investors in Swiss Bank Accounts U. S Investors in Madoff-Like Managed U. S Trading Accounts Size of the Global ... investors and shareholders in an untested offshore non -U. S jurisdiction Just as the U. S has a vibrant supply of SEC regulated mutual funds, there is an equally healthy supply of foreign mutual funds ... tax regulations for the purposes of admitting U. S investors is not a PFIC-rule triggering entity U. S Investors in Swiss Bank Accounts For comprehensiveness, we discuss the issue of U. S taxable...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... needs without incurring excessive losses, which might occur if assets had to be sold at a steep discount in a time-pressure situation (or “fire sale”) Liquidity also includes assessments of specific ... companies generally lack any of these cushions against loss Financial businesses—In discussions about financial services modernization, usually refers to commercial banks and savings institutions, securities ... deposits, examines and supervises financial institutions, and manages receiverships, assuming and disposing of the assets of failed banks The FDIC manages the deposit insurance fund, which consists...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... (Mexico) SESMA Servicio de Salud Metropolitan del Ambiente (Chile) SF6 Sulphur hexaflouride SO2 Sulfur dioxide SO3 Sulfur trioxide SOx Sulfur oxides STPS Ministry of Labor and Social Security, ... first step, as the means to ascertain the extent of air pollutant emissions, the degree of exposure to various risks from these pollutants, and the consequences of such exposure Monitoring of ... D D SD SD SD SD SD SA SA SA SA A A A A N N N N D D D D SD SD SD SD Other preferred source of information on this subject: Specify chapters, sections, or topics in report that are most useful:...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Variation of the usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Societal/ Organizational Vulnerabilities R aThe nature of the nuclear threats and the likely effectiveness of alternative strategies for ... Five looks at future U. S strategic choices and addresses a number of specific issues that affect those choices Chapter Six summarizes our conclusions Chapter Two NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND U. S SECURITY— ... States has used its nuclear forces for most of those purposes Even more significant, it has not used them in combat since Nagasaki Most notably, of course, the United States used nuclear weapons...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... not issuing enough notes, especially low denomination ones Many states forbade banks to issue notes for less than one and sometimes for less than five dollars, presumably to prevent banknotes ... other words, did not have to trade assets as frequently as a thousand individual investors would have to have done Mutual savings banks passed most of those savings on to depositors, thereby ... practice of lending primarily to directors, officers, major stockholders and their friends, families, and business associates, because it could be used to expropriate resources from outsiders, including...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... adjust for possible bias due to crossequation dependencies, the return equations in each group are estimated as a simultaneous equation system, using a modified Seemingly Unrelated Technique (SUR) ... subsequent discussion addresses the sources of these exposures Moreover, they also reveal that the interest rate and exchange rate betas are interdependent, which suggests that some sort of simultaneous ... the discussion of the actual measurement of these exposure to the empirical section For the moment, it is sufficient to assume that such exposures can be appropriately measured by current off-balance...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... examine more closely the sensitivity of the U. S firms by linking the U. S estimates cross-sectionally to accounting-based measures of currency risk We suggest that the sensitivity estimates can provide ... Nishinippon Northpacific Ogakikyoritsu Oita Saitama Sakura Saningodo Sanwa Senshu Seventyseven Shiga Shikoku Shimizu Shinwa Shizuoka Sumitomo Sumitomotrustin Suruga Taiheiyo Taiyokobe Tochigi 30 ... exposure on various combinations of accounting measures Column and Column report the results from univariate regressions of estimated exposure on asset size and on Net, while Column reports the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... assess funding and strategic support (inputs), activities (outputs), and emissions reductions, institutional changes, and policy effects (outcomes) The final panel shows the primary sources of ... agriculture, coal mines, landfills, and oil and gas systems.2 USG funding supports activities across these four sectors, including feasibility studies, training workshops, demonstration projects, ... other USG and non-USG support Figure 1.1 shows a simplified diagram of the key evaluation features in the context of the basic GMI program structure Our evaluation focused on GMI inputs, outputs,...

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Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20

... corporations and the most successful of the individual businessmen But the share of income from securities (37.3 per cent) rises notably This category includes the big bourgeoisie which in large measure ... the United States Some of them were ruined during the 192933 crisis or in subsequent years The inclusion of others in the list of the wealthiest families was unjustified because data on tax statistics ... approximate estimate of all sources of raw materials of a country and even, as we shall see, of several countries, or of the whole world Not only are such estimates made, but these sources are captured...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 00:12

... utilities (SIC 4900-4949), rights offers, shelf-registration issues, mutual conversion issues, best-efforts, and limited partnership issues are screened out This brings to a total of 1166 offerings ... value of firms sponsored by top underwriters is more sensitive to accuracy of analysts’ forecasts than the average This result helps understand one possible mechanism through which prestigious underwriters ... beginning of this section to SEOs and IPOs of American firms 24 countries with high ASD index issuing equity in the U. S across all subperiods Overall, firms from high ASD index countries issued 67% of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:47

... model of Culture Figure 2: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Figure 3: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Figure 4: Answers for question ... FIGURES TABLES Table 1: Answers for question1 of Vietnamese students and American students Table 2: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Table 3: Answers for question ... question of Vietnamese students and American students Table 4: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Table 5: Analysis of conversations for situation Table 6: Analysis of...

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