international capital flows and u s interest rates

... crisis countries. Table 4 reports the results for (non-cumulative) capital flow shocks. Positive correlations among crisis countries are found in most cases. We suggest two possible reasons ... business cycles of Japan and the crisis countries. Second, we may not observe synchronized business cycles among the crisis countries in the future. Since the Asian Crisis, foreign investors ... co- movements as follows. First, business cycles in Australia and New Zealand are different from those in the East Asian countries. Second, business cycles in the five Asian crisis countries are highly...

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... national boundaries. Various methodologies have been used to explain investors’ bias in favor of domestic securities but the results remain clearly inconclusive. This study advocates a different ... “transaction costs” (0.067 and 0.068, respectively) are judged by our sample of experts as insignificant impediments. These results are quite puzzling at first because one would expect a U. S. investor ... markets judged less integrated with the U. S. economy such as Hong Kong and Singapore. The respondents judge risks in these two emerging markets as significantly higher, and only those U. S. global...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 23:15

... selected bits of intelligence output being scored as successes or failures not because they matter for U. S. interests, but in- stead because they happen to be easy to score. As chapter 7 shows, some ... the United States because of the vituperative responses elicited by any dis- course that questions the wisdom of un inching U. S. support for Israel, points out daylight between U. S. and Israeli ... questions of why this theme has such persistence and why something that supposedly has been broken for so long still has not been  xed. Chapter 8 examines the possible answers to these questions....

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... revenue causes businesses to invest at least an additional dollar in R&D. In other words, the credit stimulates at least as much R&D activity as a direct subsidy. And unlike a subsidy, ... Contents 1 Introduction and summary 4 Federal support for research and development 12 U. S. business investment in R&D 19 U. S. government support of business R&D investments 22 Tax expenditures ... Credit and U. S. Innovation and Competitiveness table 10 The U. S. ranks 24th in terms of generosity of subsidies for business R&D Industrialized and select industrializing countries ranked...

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... potentially vulnerable bank customers, such as small businesses and consumers, are hurt by consolidation in banking markets. These studies have tended to focus on the effects of mergers and concentration ... which show a fall and subsequent rise in participants’ personal loan rates, confirm these regression results. The post-merger increase in 12 The results are robust to excluding ∆LnAssets and ... also exists for personal loans. Consistent with our results on automobile loans and Mester and Saunders s (1995) results on the prime rate, banks appear quicker to raise personal loan rates than...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... new dimensions and characteristics, causes, consequences and implications for rural poverty” Food, agriculture, and rural development : current and emerging issues for economic analysis and policy ... education and support services to access the U. S. banking system. The NATF is made up of four working groups: Financial Education, Mortgage Products, Bank Products and Services, and Social Projects. ... conscious of their limited fundraising base and choose activities appropriate to their resources. While small by the standards of the United States, this level of donations nonetheless has a substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... decisions, but also effectively resolves conflict among competing interests, builds trust in institutions, and educates and informs the public. Consultation should include: - transparent and ... Leadership and inputs at all levels are necessary to initiate such processes. This section makes several proposals in response to these questions, beginning with a focus on mechanisms which ... processes already exist to help communities create locally relevant and culturally appropriate ESD programmes, such as: - processes used to identify community sustainability goals such as those...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20

... Reserve pushes up both short-term and long-term interest rates, leading to less spend- ing by interest- sensitive sectors of the economy such as housing, consumer durable goods, and busi- ness ... federal funds rate causes current short-term rates and expected future short-term rates to rise, which pushes up interest rates across all maturities. Similarly, a de- crease in the desired funds rate ... depository institutions puts upward pres- sure on the price of reserves—the federal funds rate—while supplying more reserves than institutions desire puts downward pressure on the funds rate. In...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... also said that some UBS Swiss private bankers who visited the United States on business told U. S. customs officials that they were instead in the country for non-business reasons. UBS also ... the U. S. treasury. Servicing U. S. Clients with Swiss Accounts. UBS not only allowed U. S. clients to open undeclared accounts in Switzerland, it also took steps to ensure that its Swiss bankers ... persons,” defined as U. S. citizens and U. S. resident aliens; corporations, partnerships, and associations organized under U. S. law; domestic estates; and domestic trusts. See W-9 Form, Request...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... risk for postnatal transmission, but it is not specified in many studies; • Rates of exclusive breastfeeding (which may lower postnatal transmission risk) differ; and • Transmission rates ... laboratory and data systems, infrastructural improvements of antenatal clinics and labor and delivery wards, and strengthened systems for monitoring and evaluation To successfully reduce mother-to-child ... been published or presented at meetings as of August 2009, and includes data on the regimens used, numbers enrolled, maternal CD4 count, infant feeding and duration, and transmission rates at...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... selected bits of intelligence output being scored as successes or failures not because they matter for U. S. interests, but in- stead because they happen to be easy to score. As chapter 7 shows, some ... United States has had a remarkably successful history in international relations.” 1 Many of the successes have depended not only on sound judgment and skillful execution but also on accurate ... is almost impossible in the United States because of the vituperative responses elicited by any dis- course that questions the wisdom of un inching U. S. support for Israel, points out daylight...

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