rating the rating agencies and the markets

... in emerging markets The first of these episodes began with the devaluation of the Mexican peso in December 1994 On the heels of the Mexican devaluation, Argentina and Brazil were the countries ... In the case of the Thai crisis, Malaysia shares both trade and finance links with Thailand For the other Asian countries, the potential channels of transmission are fewer As noted earlier, the ... through which the crisis may have spread during these episodes To the extent that there is herding behavior and investors lump together all emerging markets or perhaps only those in the infected...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 22:20

... Northern California and Oregon Now contemplate all the saws and trucks and rope and the countless other gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding Think of all the ... making of the tint and the kilns, into supplying the heat, the light and power, the belts, motors, and all the other things a mill requires? Sweepers in the mill among my ancestors? Yes, and included ... heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... to launch and expand the market and, in turn, to further fuel the housing bubble Second, CDS were essential to the creation of synthetic CDOs These synthetic CDOs were merely bets on the performance ... regulatory capital standards were hinged on them This crisis could not have happened without the rating agencies Their ratings helped the market soar and their downgrades through 2007 and 2008 wreaked ... the oil patch and the early s in California and the Northeast.” Within the Fed, the debate grew heated and emotional, Siddique recalled “It got very personal,” he told the Commission The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... capacity to defend and expand other lucrative (and growth) areas (e.g other business services) In the words of the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in E ngland and Wales (ICAE ... parried, the claim to independence, and the status and power that it bestows, may become discredited and devalued, with consequences for the reputation of accountants and their capacity to secure and ... within and between professions is conditioned by the expanding opportunities for exploiting and regulating the globalization of trade and the internationalisation of markets for legal, financial and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... where the estimates were standardized by the corresponding posterior mean for the standard deviation in student effects The left panel of Figure plots the distribution of these differences by the ... one and always less than 1.05 Results 4.1 Selection models The estimate of the model parameters for MAR and SEL other than teacher and student effects are presented in Table of the Appendix The ... large as the corresponding MISSING DATA IN VALUE-ADDED MODELS 783 posterior standard deviation from the MAR model and the relative sizes of the posterior standard deviations not depend on the number...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... showered and left the hotel As she rode through Cairo’s rutted streets in a taxi and then onto the dirt roads leading to the Sphinx, the pyramids of Giza, and the vast, endless desert around them, ... you get the habits right.” In the past decade, our understanding of the neurology and psychology of habits and the way patterns work within our lives, societies, and organizations has expanded ... laptop, and as the scientist typed, Eugene became distracted He glanced across the room and then stood up, walked into a hallway, and opened the door to the bathroom A few minutes later, the toilet...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 18:09

... in the yin and yang philosophy of the Chinese, in Cartesian dualism, and in distinctions such as the id and the superego of Freudian psychoanalysis The expression of the profane instinct in the ... but also a synthesis of classical and “popular” styles found in composers like Phil Glass and Terry Riley, and also punk and new wave rock (the Beatles and the Stones now standing as the high-modernist ... Culture as a Theater of the Profane V-Power: The Feminine Form and Pop Culture 31 Logo-Power: The Role of Branding and Advertising in Pop Culture 59 i-Power: Pop Culture in the Age of the Internet...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:47

... classroom teachers They showed the teachers the videotape of their classroom and asked them to explain the thinking behind their actions To address the question of typicality, they showed the videotapes ... science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal ... after the recorded lessons can capture teachers’ goals for and their reactions to the taped lessons Questionnaires can gather background data on the students, the composition of the class and the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... want their names in print These people sat down and opened their homes and their lives to me, shared their ideas and their food, and trusted me with their stories This book chronicles many of them, ... warzones and illicit economies: my fieldwork is populated with the hopeful and the hopeless, torture victims and torturers, rogues and thieves, smugglers and heroes, the terrified and the powerful ... of the Red Cross, InterOcean, Halo Trust, and the UN, who welcomed me into their homes, their jobs, and their parties in some pretty war-torn locales These are the people who let me sleep on their...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:28

... problems together and then to rate one another’s intelligence and judgment The students who spoke rst and most often were consistently given the highest ratings, even though their suggestions (and math ... sleeping bag, axe, and so on Then they’re told to rank them in order of importance to the group’s survival First the students rank the items individually; then they so as a team Next they score those ... to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity the theory of relativity W B Yeats’s The Second Coming”...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 07:49

... the import and production of generic versions of medicines patented in Thailand The aim is to provide insights into the political context, the roles of key actors and their motivations, and the ... stage and policy practice at the bilateral level [14,15] This paper describes and analyses the policy processes that, in the face of these pressures, led to the granting and implementation of the ... who were concerned, among other things, that the political and economic costs of the licenses would outweigh the benefits They feared the imposition of trade and other sanctions from foreign...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... intervention" relates to whether these studies can be scaled-up in the community and whether they can have an impact on individual and, ultimately, on public health Table summarizes the different perspectives ... systematic way The physical components of a telephone, i.e., the handset or headset and the network, are not isolated but are part of an entire system that includes pricing plans and other incentives ... professionals and policymakers Notwithstanding any impact on health outcomes by the message itself, the effect of mobile phones, the particular payment plan and related components i.e., the medium...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... support the hypothesis of the introduction of new PRRSV strains with the same nsp2 deletion patterns from other countries The deletion patterns found in this study could stem from the evolution of the ... Thailand The data suggested that the atypical PRRSV having emerged in China in 2006 had not yet been introduced into Thailand, or at least into central Thailand since neither Type PRRSV with the ... sequences Then, the remaining nsp2 sequences of other Thai PRRSVs (78/51, 8NP59, 01CS1/2, 8NP46, 8NP147 and 8NP148) were further genetically characterized in the region covering all the nucleotide...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... epithelium Subsequently, necrosis and sloughing off of the epithelial cells with loose lymphocytes infiltrating around the bronchiole was evident The microscopic lung lesions were scored 2, and ... of the HA gene of Thai SIV [16] showed that the recent Thai H1N1 virus belonged to the classical swine H1N1 lineage and had the highest homology to the human isolate A/Thailand/271/05(H1N1) The ... together with infected animals were not performed Therefore, whether these Thai H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes will be transmitted efficiently in the field situation requires further experimental and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... BR and HFL performed the analyses under supervision of EWS BR wrote the first version of this manuscript PP, PE and IR prepared and provided the CRASH trial data EWS, GDM and AIRM developed the ... prognostic band These odds ratios varied between 1.06 (95% CI 0.91 to 1.23, P = 0.45) for the ‘intermediate prognosis’ band and 1.28 (95% CI 1.11 to 1.47, P = 0.0006) for the ‘worst prognosis’ band Unadjusted ... outcome measures In the field of stroke research, the modified Rankin Scale and the Barthel Index are often used as primary efficacy endpoints - and are also dichotomized [25,26] The Optimising Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... synthesises the bias and the standard deviation of the estimates (MSE = biais2 + standard deviation2 ) RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Tables I and II summarise the power of the methods when the QTL alleles ... half-sib and fullsib family phenotypic means and average effects of the QTL substitution, and the variance of the half-sib families were estimated under the hypothesis of the segregation of a QTL at the ... families On the one hand, these trends led to an inversion in the order of the multitrait methods between extreme frequencies of QTL alleles in the grand parental populations On the other hand, FDA...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... population be 100, the additive and dominant effect (a and d) can be solved as: and the additive and dominance effects at the QTL are obtained from: Once the design parameters (s and n) and the genetic ... Jayakar (1970) and Hill (1975) and relate the power directly to genetic parameters of the marker gene and the QTL and the relevant design parameters This will allow factors affecting the power to ... f ) and contrast at the QTL were 0.5, 0.0 and 0.01 (equivalent to 1% heritability in the present study) respectively, and the recombination frequency between the marker and QTL was zero The powers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... output on the CSSSTYLE= option, the output will also look nearly the same The only remaining difference lies with the FRAME= and RULES= attributes that control borders on the table There are ... exactly like you had expected The system title is colored just like the table and the header elements are the same color as the data cells The reason that system titles are the same color as tables ... and all other SAS Institute Inc product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc in the USA and other countries ® indicates USA registration Other brand and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2014, 00:33

... explore the anatomy of the boom, the deep depression and the recovery in the Finnish and Swedish economies in the period 1985–2000 They divide these 15 years into three phases: the boom and the overheating ... forced Finland and Sweden to abandon their pegs and allow their currencies to float during the fall of 1992 The depreciation that followed from the floating eased the depression and became the starting ... Lars Jonung, Jaakko Kiander and Pentti Vartia PART I THE CRISIS OF THE 1990S IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN The great financial crisis in Finland and Sweden: the dynamics of boom, bust and recovery 1985–2000...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:30

... problems together and then to rate one another’s intelligence and judgment The students who spoke rst and most often were consistently given the highest ratings, even though their suggestions (and math ... language and recording how often and spontaneously they laughed, talked, and smiled They also interviewed the kids and their parents about what the children were like outside the laboratory Did they ... to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity the theory of relativity W B Yeats’s The Second Coming”...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2015, 15:28