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Liquidity, Default, Taxes and Yields on Municipal Bonds docx

Liquidity, Default, Taxes and Yields on Municipal Bonds docx

... rating and maturity ∆TP is the yield spread between Treasury and AAA municipal bonds, ∆PG is the yield spread between AAA and AA/A municipal bonds; ∆GM is the yield spread between AA/A and BBB municipal ... AA/A and BBB bonds Average differences between Treasury and AAA yields are around 70 basis points Average yield differences between AA/A and AAA bonds, and between BBB and AA/A are about 10 and ... we assume that municipal and Treasury bonds are priced at par and both are noncallable In addition, investors pursue a buy -and- hold strategy However, unlike his model, municipal bonds are subject...

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Municipal bond funds and individual bonds ppt

Municipal bond funds and individual bonds ppt

... Municipal bonds overview and investment considerations Municipal bonds are initially issued in the primary market, where pricing is based on market conditions and demand It is generally ... In addition, municipal bonds are not as actively traded as taxable bonds, such as U.S Treasury or corporate issues As a result, municipal bonds are less liquid than taxable bonds and have higher ... Structural advantages of municipal bond funds compared with individual municipal bonds Individual municipal bonds (professionally managed separate accounts and self-directed accounts) Municipal bond funds...

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State and Local Government Expenditures

State and Local Government Expenditures

... Rights of the United States Constitution states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, ... financed at the federal and state level, while education is largely financed at the state and local level FISCAL FEDERALISM IN THE U.S AND ABROAD Early in the history of the United States, the federal ... postal and Total 80% 60% 40% 20% Federal State Local 2002 1977 1952 1927 0% 1902 Share of Total Government Spending 100% FISCAL FEDERALISM IN THE U.S AND ABROAD The largest element of state and...

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The State and the Novel

The State and the Novel

... rabbit hutches and what are they supposed to do? But give them a chance and it’s still there.’ The transition from traditional terraced The State and the Novel 41 housing to high-rise estates is shown ... effect, and it serves to place attention on preoccupations more pressing for a post-war audience, The State and the Novel 17 such as the changing nature of social and sexual relations, and the ... emerged, embracing full employment, the welfare state, and state intervention in industry In this period, ‘the vocabulary of modern capitalism and social democracy’ was defined, a lexicon which...

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Tài liệu Cisco Systems - Link-State and balanced hybrid routing pdf

Tài liệu Cisco Systems - Link-State and balanced hybrid routing pdf

... v2.0—5-10 Summary • Link -state routing uses LSAs, a topological database, the SPF algorithm, the resulting SPF tree, and a routing table of paths and ports to each network • Link -state routing algorithms ... flooding • Memory- and processor-intensive © 2002, Cisco Systems, Inc All rights reserved ICND v2.0—5-9 Balanced Hybrid Routing • Shares attributes of both distance vector and link -state routing © ... link -state routing and identify solutions to those issues • Describe the features of balanced hybrid routing protocols © 2002, Cisco Systems, Inc All rights reserved ICND v2.0—5-3 Link-State...

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Tài liệu Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1 pdf

Tài liệu Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1 pdf

... cultivated land, dryland rangelands, and coastal and marine systems are now degraded, and the degraded area continues to expand [4] Changing Land Use and Land Cover Current rates of land cover ... Systems: Wetlands, Rivers, and Lakes • Dryland Systems: Deserts, Semiarid, and Dry Subhumid Rangelands • Forests, Including Woodlands and Tree Plantations • Marine and Coastal Systems • Island Systems ... Cultivated Mountain Dryland Coastal Island Forest and woodland Population growth in percentage Cultivated Mountain Dryland Polar Net primary productivity Coastal Island Forest and woodland Polar Gross...

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Tài liệu Actions Against Abuse of the Global Financial System: Report from G7 Finance Ministers to the Heads of State and Government docx

Tài liệu Actions Against Abuse of the Global Financial System: Report from G7 Finance Ministers to the Heads of State and Government docx

... identifying and dismantling harmful tax practices 11 Where jurisdictions give strong political endorsement to, adhere to, and make progress in implementing international standards, and where possible and ... regulatory standards, excessive bank secrecy, and harmful tax competition Governments must intensify their cooperation and strengthen international frameworks to effectively combat money laundering and ... and harmful tax competition, and to improve the observance of international standards and good governance For this reason, we need to better coordinate our efforts and provide further impetus...

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Tài liệu Afghanistan - State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead docx

Tài liệu Afghanistan - State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead docx

... conference attendees and both the introduction and collection itself have been reviewed and approved by RAND Science and Technology Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead ... plan In Iraq, the United States is headed for the exit without having achieved its initial objectives, and in Afghanistan, a resurgent Taliban is testing the United States and NATO’s commitment ... United States and help to improve living standards and build democracy The prospects for success are the weak link in the chain The news stories from Afghanistan are mainly negative, and so are...

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Tài liệu ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, VOLUME I: STATE AND LOCAL doc

Tài liệu ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, VOLUME I: STATE AND LOCAL doc

... Regimes fall and rise daily, and people find themselves in lawless and violent states In the early 21st century alone, we can think of such states as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti, to ... Enforcement Standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and produced as part of the Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program, these standards are based ... United States The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and...

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Tài liệu Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States: Flows and Outstandings Third Quarter 2012 doc

Tài liệu Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States: Flows and Outstandings Third Quarter 2012 doc

... to the rest of the world (net) State and local Disaster-related insurance benefits 18 19 20 By persons Estate and gift taxes, federal Estate and gift taxes, state and local 34.0 28.3 5.8 25.0 20.6 ... 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 By government Federal Estate and gift taxes paid by persons State and local Disaster-related insurance benefits Estate and gift taxes paid by persons Investment grants ... Securities Open market paper U.S savings bonds Treasury bills and other Treasury securities Agency- and GSE-backed securities Municipal securities Corporate and foreign bonds Corporate equities (2) Mutual...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies of conformational changes induced by cyclic AMP and DNA binding to cyclic AMP receptor protein from Escherichia coli ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies of conformational changes induced by cyclic AMP and DNA binding to cyclic AMP receptor protein from Escherichia coli ppt

... 1ị where SD and SRF are the respective areas under the emission spectra of the donor and a reference compound, and ARF and AD are the respective absorbances of the reference compound and donor ... 10PỵDAị=2 2ị where F and Fcor are uorescence intensity before and after the correction, and P and DA denote the initial sample absorbance at the excitation wavelength and the change in absorbance ... bold An equimolar amount of complementary strand was added, and the mixture was heated for at 96 C and slowly cooled to room temperature The double-stranded DNA was stored at )20 C in experimental...

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DANMARKS NATIONALBANK WORKING PAPERS: Liquidity of Danish Government and Covered Bonds – Before, During and After the Financial Crisis – Preliminary Findings doc

DANMARKS NATIONALBANK WORKING PAPERS: Liquidity of Danish Government and Covered Bonds – Before, During and After the Financial Crisis – Preliminary Findings doc

... Outstanding amount of covered bonds Outstanding amount of government bonds Number of covered bonds (right-hand axis) Number of government bonds (right-hand axis) Note: Only bonds with an outstanding ... Outstanding amount of covered bonds Outstanding amount of government bonds Number of covered bonds (right-hand axis) Number of government bonds (right-hand axis) Note: Only bonds with an outstanding ... of larger and more liquid bonds Table LONG-TERM COVERED AND GOVERNMENT BONDS – SUMMARY STATISTICS Covered bonds Large bonds Average total outstanding amount (EUR bn) Average number of bonds Average...

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Why Government Bonds are sold by Auction and Corporate Bonds by Posted-Price Selling pot

Why Government Bonds are sold by Auction and Corporate Bonds by Posted-Price Selling pot

... market’ for shares As argued by Chari and Weber (1992) and Sundaresan (1992) and documented by Nyborg and Sundaresan (1996) for bonds, and by Aussenegg, Pichler, and Stomper (2002) for shares, such ... as the United States? 28 Not if we consider the following The average elasticity of demand estimated by Kandel et al (1999) is 37.1, far above the figures reported for the United States For example, ... auctions and PPS in Section III Section IV illustrates This result is due to French and McCormick (1984) See also Harstad (1990) and Levin and Smith (1994) See for example Wang (1993) and Arnold and...

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Municipal Bonds: Understanding Credit Risk pot

Municipal Bonds: Understanding Credit Risk pot

... repayment of the securities; and In most cases, official statements as well as updated information regarding the issuer and the municipal bonds can be found on the Electronic Municipal Market Access ... deciding whether to purchase municipal bonds Investors need to undertake their own independent review of the municipal bonds risk by reading the official statement and other relevant information ... the types of bonds issued and whether the ultimate obligor is a municipal entity or a non -municipal entity (i.e., a conduit borrower) For example, if you are considering purchasing municipal securities...

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MODERNISING HEALTH CARE Reinventing professions, the state and the public pdf

MODERNISING HEALTH CARE Reinventing professions, the state and the public pdf

... ‘cornerstones’ of welfare states and service societies; and subsequently, with the shifts in the arrangements of welfare states (Hall and Soskice, 2001), and new demands on health care, the professions ... also new and potentially changing arrangements between multinational corporations – including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – and local states Markets and states not necessarily stand, therefore, ... capacity to remake itself and ensure professional power under conditions of changing welfare states and new demands on health care services However, the varieties of welfare states enhance the varieties...

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Simple Molecular Orbitals - Sigma and Pi Bonds in Molecules pot

Simple Molecular Orbitals - Sigma and Pi Bonds in Molecules pot

... has five total bonds: three sigma bonds and two pi bonds πCC front and back πCC top and bottom The shape of each sp carbon atom is linear and allows the electrons in the σ bonds and the atoms ... orbitals The second and third bonds are overlapping 2p orbitals, above and below and in front and in back Since the C-H bonds are single bonds, we know that they are sigma bonds too, using hybrid ... hydrogen atoms (σ and σ*) and p orbitals (π and π*) above The process works pretty much the same when we are making bonds using carbon and hydrogen atoms ( and nitrogen, oxygen and halogen atoms)...

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THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT: STATE AND OUTLOOK 2010 pot

THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT: STATE AND OUTLOOK 2010 pot

... Adams and Anke Lükewille European Commission DG ENV: Andrej Kobe and André Zuber EEA contributors Andreas Barkman, Valentin Foltescu, Peder Gabrielsen, Dorota Jarosinska, Peder Jensen, and Aphrodite ... National and regional stories Adapting to climate change Common environmental themes Biodiversity Climate change mitigation Land use Land use Soil Nature protection and biodiversity Marine and coastal ... the air has many sources and is a complex heterogeneous mixture whose size and chemical composition change in time and space, depending on emission sources and atmospheric and weather conditions...

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Strategic Appraisal - United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century ppt

Strategic Appraisal - United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century ppt

... United States, at least on certain issues The third category encompasses major regional powers—some allied with the United States and others hostile Such states include Iran, North Korea, Turkey, and ... strategy and defense planning and the target of the most intense uses of U.S military power over the past ten years The fourth group is a larger number of states, including many states in Africa and ... challenges to the United States, the relative importance of nonstate actors will also increase Technological, economic, and social trends are weakening states relative to nonstate actors—although...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models" potx

... generic addition and multiplication operation, ⊕ and ⊗, and their identities and Multiplication and addition must be associative Multiplication must distribute over addition, and v ⊗ The design ... translation forest has been generated, any non-coaccessible states (i.e., states that are not reachable from the goal node) are removed and the resulting structure is rescored with language models ... 15 was used, and all decoders were configured to use cube pruning with a limit of 30 candidates at each node and no further pruning All decoders produced a BLEU score between 31.4 and 31.6 (small...

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Public Health Education in the United States: Then and Now pot

Public Health Education in the United States: Then and Now pot

... urbanization of the United States, and the growth of mechanization and factories, with their attendant health and safety risks Infectious diseases, like tuberculosis, were rampant and spread quickly ... city and regional planning, law, business, information and library sciences and other areas Accreditation requirements are a floor and not a ceiling 47 Public Health Education, United States ... foundations, are public health leaders in state, local and federal health agencies, and work globally and locally in many different roles Public Health Education, United States 51 PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION...

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