the uses and abuses of sovereign credit ratings

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... regression of the average of Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s ratings against our set of eight variables explains more than 90 percent of the sample variation and yields a residual standard error of about ... attempt to measure their individual and collective explanatory power Cantor and Packer (1995) provide a broad overview of the history and uses of sovereign ratings and the frequency of disagreement ... with the agencies’ relative ranking of sovereign credits, they are more pessimistic than Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s about sovereign credit risks below the A level Our findings suggest that the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

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Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 21:00

... they have two Supervisors set over them more then any Company that I know of, viz the Censors of the College of Physicians, and the Master and Wardens of their own Company The next thing is the ... upon the Simples, and Compounds of the Shops So that the Customer can tell the price of what he hath occasion to use, and not stand at the mercy of the Apothecary to rate them as he lists, and ... confess The said Charter prays for the publick good only (there being the same reason of all) they might have the same power of Surveying them also, as they have of the Apothecaries, which most of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20

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Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... tumour of the eye, a remarkable swelling of the upper lip, and painful tumours of the joints of the fingers, much relieved; but the medicine was left off, on account of its violent effects on the ... work, entitled FLORA LONDINENSIS The accuracy of the drawings, the beauty of the colouring, the full descriptions, the accurate specific distinctions, and the uses of the different plants, cannot ... afforded me, in perfecting some of the cases, and in communicating the events of others The ages of the patients are not always exact, nor would the labour of making them so have been repaid by any...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 11:20

... indicator of the public support it may receive from the host sovereign in case of difficulties); the credit rating of parent and subsidiary banks; and the characteristics of the bonds (for instance the ... size of the impact of sovereign risk on the cost of bank funding This box examines whether the characteristics of the sovereign play a role in addition to the traditional determinants of the cost ... reflecting the creditworthiness of the government rather than the bank CGFS – The impact of sovereign credit risk on bank funding conditions An indicator of the value of explicit guarantees is the spread...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the World Bank He is a member of the Advisory Council of George Washington ... default, the holders of the bonds would have priority claims against the collateral assets, ahead of other creditors and even the FDIC The holders of the covered bonds would also have recourse to the ... share of the appreciated value of the collateral property The share of the appreciated value is determined and due at the sale of the property or at the termination of the mortgage In addition to...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... The Rise and Fall of the U.S Mortgage and Credit Markets The Rise and Fall of the U.S Mortgage and Credit Markets A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown James ... than the median value of their net worth For those families in the bottom 20th percentile of income, the median value of the primary residence is more than nine times the median value of their ... record high of 55 percent in the second quarter of 2008 The recent rise in the share reflects the fact that a lending boom produced record highs in both the total value of housing units and the homeownership...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:04

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Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 14:04

... capitalization and have one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution: Moody’s Aaa and Standard & Poor’s AA- About The Economist Intelligence Unit The Economist Intelligence Unit is the ... Although the shares were priced at the lower end of the expected range, the IPO is a sign of growing investor appetite to participate in new offerings The IPO took place before the eruption of sovereign ... Reinhart, professor of economics at the University of Maryland and co-author with Kenneth Rogoff of This Time Is Different, the reaction was typical In her book, she traces the history of financial...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:22

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Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

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Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 09:49

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Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

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Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

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Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:21

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Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05

... across the hardware, software and services aspects of Cloud Computing there are also a corresponding lack of security guidelines and consistency in the area of authentication, security and encryption ... Twitter (Vijayan, et.al.) and others, and thousands of industry and enterprise applications as well These are the most susceptible areas to hackers as often developers, in the rush to get social ... mention as the core of the SaaS architecture yet as with many areas of Cloud Computing, definitions vary by who is giving them Unifying all of these definitions is the common thread of Cloud Computing...

Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2013, 09:43