... m3), the heat capacity of the air (J kg1 K1), and the psychrometric constant (Pa K1), respectively Ts and Ta are air and leaf temperatures, and es and ea are the water vapour pressure in the substomatal ... that Lagrangian theory only needs a rather crude model for the wind field [37, 140] Further details on both the Eulerian and the Lagrangian approach for scalar transfer within canopies can be found ... several times the height of the canopy [24] Such eddies are responsible for most of the exchanges between the 486 H Sinoquet and X Le Roux canopy and the atmosphere For example, Collineau and Brunet...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
... interest rates and default risk Moreover, the structure of the analysis focuses on understanding the dynamics within the context of risk management While we ultimately want to understand the relationship ... contemporaneous correlations between changes in short interest rates and default rates, and significant positive contemporaneous correlations between the changes in the slopes of term structure and default ... definitive and comprehensive guidance on the assessment of single-obligor default risk and for the bottom-up analysis of risk and return of credit portfolios To get a better understanding of these...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 11:21
maltritz & berlemann (eds.) - financial crises, sovereign risk and the role of institutions (2013)
... from Germany but also other north-European Euro-Area countries such as Finland or the Netherlands After an intensive discussion within the European Central Bank (and of course in the public and in ... collateral for a loan with the Bank of Japan and others And in 2008, Sweden’s Riksbank used its gold to raise some cash and provide additional liquidity to the Scandinavian banking system (Belke ... defaults, their dependencies and consequences The contributions also highlight and discuss several features of financial institutions and financial markets’ design and in particular the risks they...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:17
Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security
... credit and debit transfers, e-money, and stored-value transactions) and for all points on the payments Nonbanks and Risk in Retail Payments 19 chain (hardware and software provision, consumer and ... Policy and Regulation, Risk Management and Security Investment, Technology and Policy Adoption, Combating Cybercrime, Privacy and Trust Information Risk and the Economics of Security presents the ... United States and in 15 European countries and analyses the implications of the importance and multiple roles played by nonbanks on retail payment risks Nonbanks play multiple roles along the entire...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15
Tài liệu Growth and Decline of the Economies of Europe and the US docx
... 1513 and Japan in 1542 They were followed by Spain near the close of the 15th century France, England and the Netherlands followed the Portuguese and Spanish trade routes into the Atlantic, Indian ... together and be financed by the tariff and land sales revenues Among the most important internal improvements created under the American System were the Erie Canal and the Cumberland Road, the ... Nevertheless, the slave trade, sugar cane and banana plantations of the West Indies (Caribbean Islands), rubber plantations of Malaya, and coffee and coco plantations in Africa and South America...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20
Sustaining New York’s and the US’ Global Financial Services Leadership doc
... securities, and insurance – in understanding the sector’s importance to the US and New York economies, it focuses primarily on US competitiveness in the securities and investment banking sectors, ... debt and equity as % of GDP), 2004 $10,000 350% $25,000 Switzerland Belgium 300% Netherlands UK Denmark Singapore Australia Sweden France Ireland Taiwan Canada Germany Portugal Finland Japan Italy ... discussion and further exploration, as the recommendations being offered in other reports and by other interested stakeholders The Secretary of the Treasury and the various financial regulators can take...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: "What do we know about communicating risk? A brief review and suggestion for contextualising serious, but rare, risk, and the example of cox-2 selective and non-selective NSAIDs" pot
... contextualising anchors were chosen only because they seemed useful at the time, and they can be criticised for not necessarily being relevant to the specific risks arising from the intervention Although the ... with the original concept, planning the study, searching, analysis and preparing a manuscript SD and HJM were involved with planning, data extraction, and writing JP was involved with planning, ... by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer Ltd Neither organisation had any role in the design, planning or execution of the study, or in writing the manuscript The terms of the financial...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Avoiding pitfalls in critical care meta-analysis — funnel plots, risk estimates, types of heterogeneity, baseline risk and the ecologic fallacy" ppsx
... lines) and Drug (light lines) OA and OC represent the results of one trial, and AB and CD the other trial OA has the lesser slope, meaning Drug is superior in this trial Similarly, AB and CD ... subgroup effects in a single nonrandomised trial, such as that in Table Here OA and OC represent results from one stratum of the trial, and AB and CD the other When the confounding effect of stratum ... by many to be hypothesis generating at best Nonetheless, the hypotheses may be stronger if the subgroups are based on prerandomisation characteristics, were planned a priori and allowed an adequately...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
chorafas - public debt dynamics of europe and the us (2014)
... reign of debt, and The gates of nirvana Written for professionals, academics, and researchers, the book the readers have in their hands provides the documentation and describes the implications ... out of the tunnel An old proverb says that to move the human donkey must see a carrot in the front and feel a stick in the back.” The carrot in the front is standard of living The stick in the ... to live in an environment they can understand and trust We are at an inflexion point “Man is subject to a thousand accidents,” as Solon aptly remarked more than 2500 years ago In the following...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:13
friedman & kraus - engineering the financial crisis; system risk and the failure of regulation (2011)
... about the default risk of the banks as they were about the default risk of Fannie and Freddie As we discuss toward the end of the chapter (when we consider the ‘‘too big to fail’’ theory as a cause ... evidence, and many of them, while equally plausible, contradicted each other Additionally, there were more hypotheses than the six we have just listed, and partly as a result of the profusion of theories ... hypothesis to the financial crisis (see Kraus 2011), and neither have any of the other scholars who have used the corporate-compensation theory to explain the crisis (e.g., Rajan 2008; Thanassoulis...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 16:26
armour & mccahery (eds.) - after enron; improving corporate law and modernising securities regulation in europe and the us (2006)
... Corporate Law and Modernising Securities Regulation in Europe and the US Edited by John Armour and Joseph A McCahery Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2006 Published in North America (US and Canada) by ... Icarus and American Corporate Regulation DAVID A SKEEL, JR 129 Corporate Governance after Enron: An Age of Enlightenment SIMON DEAKIN and SUZANNE J KONZELMANN 155 Financial Scandals and the Role ... rationally than had previously been imagined? Secondly, we might investigate the ways in which, if at all, the US and European scandals differed both from each other, and from other corporate scandals...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 05:01
Chapter 13 return, risk, and the security market line
... is the standard deviation? 13-8 Portfolios • A portfolio is a collection of assets • An asset’s risk and return are important in how they affect the risk and return of the portfolio • The risk- return ... Surprises, and Expected Returns • Risk: Systematic and Unsystematic • Diversification and Portfolio Risk • Systematic Risk and Beta • The Security Market Line • The SML and the Cost of Capital: A Preview ... + 2(1) = 17.7% 13-5 Variance and Standard Deviation • Variance and standard deviation measure the volatility of returns • Using unequal probabilities for the entire range of possibilities • Weighted...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2015, 19:49
CLIMATE CHANGE DISAS CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER RISK AND THE URBAN POORTER
... Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges Ed by Jane Bicknell, David Dodman and David Satterthwaite London: Earthscan ——— undated Climate Change and the Urban Poor: Risk and ... adaptation and disaster risk reduction plans Integrating policies for climate change and disaster risk reduction for the poor into urban planning and management Policies to address climate risks and ... Making and Action Planning Integrating Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policies for the Poor into Urban Planning and Management Balancing Policy Tradeoffs among Risk Reduction, Urban Development,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:13
Idiosyncratic risk and the cross section of REIT returns
... idiosyncratic risk in the previous month They then compare the risk- adjusted returns between the highest risk and lowest risk portfolios and found the difference to be statistically significant, thereby ... follow a random walk process and approximate the expected market risk and idiosyncratic risk of the current month using their lagged values However, we will show later in the paper that the random ... ,t denotes the excess return of individual REIT, and rm ,t is the excess return of the general stock market ci and cm are the constant term in the mean equation, and γi and γm are the autoregressive...
Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:06
British SMEs and the US market
... in the US – an increase of 51% So far in 2014, the sectors receiving the most help from UKTI were consumer and industrial goods, oil and gas, information and communications technology, and advanced ... complex customs procedures, duplicate safety testing of certain products – such as food and clothing – and complying with different EU and US product standards The proposed Transatlantic Trade and ... between US and UK safety testing requirements As the UK and the US not recognise each other’s testing procedures, these businesses typically must test their products twice to satisfy the separate...
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:06
30531 school in the uk and the us
... you in? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Find the names of the subjects in the spiral and write them: Are there other subjects you study in your school? What’s ... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Why? Because it’s ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… What subject you dislike? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Why? Because it’s ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
Ngày tải lên: 26/08/2016, 16:25
The application of altmans z model to measure default risk of the vietnamese commercial banks borrowers
... rate risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, compliance risk, foreign exchange risk, and reputation risk Unlike other businesses, bank failures can be contagious and stem from depositor panics ... cycle There are many bankruptcy cases in the world: from the Asian financial crisis to the collapses of Enron and Worldcom, and the bankrupty declaration of hundreds of financial institutions in the ... income from their loan portfolios, and their primary risk is credit risk Credit risk can be understood as the risk to earnings and capital that an obliger will fail to meet the terms of any contract...
Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2017, 21:41
Tài liệu GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW ppt
... Vienna Prussia claimed the right to annex Saxony; Russia demanded Poland, and against them were leagued England, Austria, and France, France represented by the Mephistophelian Talleyrand, who ... followers, and starts on years of journeyings to the Holy Land Ready money is needed above all else Lands are mortgaged, and the money-lender and the merchant buy lands, houses, and eventually power, and ... legislation and the police The ideal of the one is the good Samaritan, the ideal of the other is the tax-collector The one depends upon the wine and oil of sympathy and human brotherhood; the other...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: An Analysis of the Subprime-Mortgage Financial Crisis pdf
... holders of the mezzanine tranche get nothing If the return on the mortgage portfolio lies between the claim of the senior tranche and the sum of the claims of the senior and mezzanine tranches, the ... the mezzanine tranche get the entire excess of the return over the claim of the senior tranche and share it according to the shares of the mezzanine tranche that they holds If the return on the ... exceeds the sum of the claims of the senior and mezzanine tranches, the claim of the mezzanine tranche is also paid off The holders of the final tranche, usually referred to as the equity tranche,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View (1913) pptx
... Vienna Prussia claimed the right to annex Saxony; Russia demanded Poland, and against them were leagued England, Austria, and France, France represented by the Mephistophelian Talleyrand, who ... followers, and starts on years of journeyings to the Holy Land Ready money is needed above all else Lands are mortgaged, and the money-lender and the merchant buy lands, houses, and eventually power, and ... legislation and the police The ideal of the one is the good Samaritan, the ideal of the other is the tax-collector The one depends upon the wine and oil of sympathy and human brotherhood; the other...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21