politicians for sale evidence from the 1990s

... "3, not K" variable was coded for children in the second group and for all others; the "BothK3" variable was coded for children in the third group and for all others The fourth group, who participated ... R2 The Cohen's f2 statistic was 0.000 for the martial arts variable for both analyses Furthermore, 95% confidence intervals for the regression coefficients for the martial arts variables for ... of the assumptions for the use of the multiple regression to test the effects of the martial arts variable is the lack of an important interaction between martial arts and the prescore for the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the ... proportionðb is the second digitÞ ¼ X     bþ1 b − log10 a þ : log10 a þ 10 10 ð3Þ 469 test rejects the hypothesis that the probability of all digits conforms to the Benford law, then the entire ... investigate the differences before and after the strengthening of the corporate governance mechanism, the sample was divided into two periods in this study, using 2003 as the division point Formally, the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:37

... quality or effectiveness Therefore the criteria for measuring performance of State actors are not performance based These are not unique either to LEP or other legal documents In the interview with ... insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, from the macro level ... situation for the environment but further research is needed The thesis is inspired by the idea of further research on the linkages that should be made on the industry specific basis rather than...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... which the metamorphism of Con Voi range culminated Although the zircon had very high closure temperature but the direct link to the metamorphism and ductile deformation lacked Therefore, the interpretation ... calculation was performed on the minerals corresponding to the first paragenesis observed in this study In fact, no minerals, except for the zircon, had the closure temperature higher than the temperature ... only from 10 to 20km Actually, this range is bounded in the north by the Song Chay fault, in the south by the Song Hong fault Along the Song Hong fault, small sedimentary basins have been formed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... ms , τ The surprise computed in this way, therefore, is equal to the “true” surprise, plus the average targeting errors made later in the month, minus the scaled-up premium The first of these may ... non-trivial, so the change in the one-month futures rate is used when the target rate change occurs within three days of the end of the month, which was the case for five of the 42 changes in the sample ... the persistence of funds rate changes is to blame for the failure If changes in the target rate tend to persist for months at a time, then the slope of the yield curve will contain little information...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... shows the quarterly path of GDP from the preceding peak to the trough of each business cycle and then the quarterly path of GDP from the trough for the same number of quarters that occurred in the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... for Germany and the highest one was 23 bp points for Greece For the same period, the lowest average bond spread was bp for both France and The Netherlands, and the highest average was 25 bp for ... 2010, was obtained from the ECB webpage The negative sign for the bond spread in Finland in 2010 is due to the fact that the average yield of the Finnish bond was lower than for the German bond ... and zero before then One might expect that the higher the counterparty risk, the lower the power of the CDS market to adequately reflect the credit risk due to the lower quality of the protection...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... after the last immunization, blood was collected from the heart For expression of the full-length cDNA in E coli, the same system was used except for the vector PCR was performed to insert the ... which correspond to the cDNA sequence obtained by 3¢ RACE The reaction was carried out for 25 cycles under the following conditions: 94 °C for 30 s, 55 °C for 30 s and 72 °C for The resulting PCR ... G/C)GG(A/C/T)GA(A/G)AA(A/G)GG(A/T/G/C)AT-3¢, designed from the amino acid sequence, KVGEKGI The amplification conditions were as follows: 30 cycle at 94 °C for 0.5 min, 52 °C for min, and 72 °C for The PCR products obtained from 3¢ RACE...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... during the war in the war regions have lower height -for- age Z-scores than children born during the war in the non-war regions We observe a similar result for the cohorts of children born before the ... were young at the start of the war in the war regions of Ethiopia have lower height -for- age Z-scores 12 before the war ended to the Z-scores of children born after the war ended in the war regions ... term The coefficient 1 measures the war’s impact on children’s height -for- age Z-scores for children born before the war in war-affected regions, while the coefficient 2 measures the impact of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... impact on foreign banks Therefore, foreign banks not adjust their lending and deposit rates according to the change in the host market economic growth and inflation The same conclusion is for the central ... out of the four presented models) Since the Lebanese financial market is very small and inactive, the banking sector is – by large – the main source of funding for investors Therefore, the domestic ... the effect of macroeconomic factors on deposit rate is different from that of loans A higher level of permanent income increases the demand for deposits and therefore, reduces the incentive for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... stands for the Durbin-Watson statistic The numbers in the parentheses below the point estimates stand for the t-ratios Adj R2 stands for the adjusted coefficient of determination The hypotheses ... -11.7* * The mean and standard deviation correspond to the sample values The numbers in the parentheses stand for the t-ratios The Sharpe ratio is calculated by diving the sample mean by the sample ... comparability of the estimated coefficients SIC stands for the Schwartz Information Criterion (Schwartz, 1978) The numbers in the parentheses below the point estimates report the heteroscedasticity-adjusted...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... 2007 for the Domestic banks, and from 2008 for the Global banks In the latter group, there is a sudden drop at the peak of the crisis, followed by an equally sharp increase that reflects the hoarding ... in the sub-sample As for Global banks, the sample covers 91 institutions, with more than six years of information for 60 percent of the banks in the sub-sample Looking closely into the data, there ... to weaken the connections between the macroeconomic environment in the run-up to the crisis and the likelihood of subsequent bank failure These hypotheses are taken to the data in the next sections...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... is the interest rate swap spread for the US, Yab the bid-ask spread for the 10-year government bonds, STOX the average of the volatility of put and call options on the Eurostoxx index, SLP the ... variables that takes the value one for the date of the event and assumes the value zero for the rest of the year Afterwards, an alternative approach is tested using a time window for these dummy variables, ... point, support for the specific regulations of the Pact and the decisions taken by the Council varies considerably The main reason for diverging assessments of the virtues of the Stability and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... factors go into the construction of the index, the number of firms in the industry and each firm’s market share The fewer the number of firms in the industry the easier it is for them to coordinate ... uses the Herfindahl–Hirschman index (HHI) as the measure of market power in the banking system in each of the ECCU countries both at the aggregate level and for the foreign and indigenous banks The ... the foreign banks the level of concentration in the market was quite low The low level of concentration (i.e high degree of competition) among the foreign banks resulted in the narrowing of their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... election cycle in the 1990s, after the power to form new counties was devolved from the federal government to the state governments in the 1988 Federal Constitution The reasons for creating new ... after the 1994 elections Thus the distance of the upstream station B to the nearest exiting border decreased from BD to BC, and the number of border crossings for the segment BF increased from ... distance-weighted averaged for the 26 other “intermediate” counties that the river segment flows through while getting from the upstream to the downstream station We add year effects to account for the trend...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... than the corresponding ks value for the b chains either in the hybrid tetramer (a3+)2(bO2)2 or reconstructed HbO2 Moreover, the ®nal state of the run was not for the usual acidic met-form but for ... 9.2, however, the reaction was monophasic The bu€er used was Mes for pH 6.2 and Caps for pH 9.2 these computations, the initial value for each of the rate constants was taken from the corresponding ... can enter the heme pocket from the surrounding solvent The iron is thus converted to the ferric met-form, and the water molecule or the hydroxyl ion remains bound to the Fe(III) at the sixth...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

... been on the rise since the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990s The pace of change, measured by the number of mergers per year, picked up in the late 1990’s.12 From 1970 to 1979, the average ... approximately 1% of the total sales The paper sector has imports that represent roughly 15% of the total sales And the pattern of imports over years has been very stable for each sector, with only the pulp ... 29.4% for the paper sector to a high of 32.2% for the pulp sector However, for a given sector, there was considerable variation throughout the sample period With a standard deviation of 8.0, the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:05

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:01

... coverage It is therefore possible that the evidence for generic to generic transformations may not be applicable in the case of condition-specific to generic transformations Transformation of descriptive ... masks errors at the group level The predictive validity of the scale-based algorithm was therefore deemed inadequate for the sort of between-group comparisons required for evaluating the effectiveness ... evaluation The present study therefore adds additional tools to the analyst's tool-box; increasing the chances that an appropriate tool with be available for the job at hand Findings from the present...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20