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... measure the effect of competition on the level of fees we use the market share of the top five banks as an indicator of industry concentration in the banking 23References L. Allen: The determinants ... controlled by the Czech bank. The table clearly shows the dominant size ofthe Austrian banks relative to their counterparts from the other countries in the dataset. Figure 2 below depicts the vast ... 7, show that the exclusion ofthe Austrian banks leaves the values ofthe parameters at a similar level but decreases the significance of CASHLESS and EASSETS (Column 1 shows the regression...
... from the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute ofthe Court, in partic-ular the role ofthe Security Council, the powers ofthe prosecutor, the questions of jurisdiction ... 213.9 The politics ofinternational law international law. The end ofthe Cold War, and the attendant talk of a ‘new world order’, the triumph of liberalism, and the regulatory im-peratives of ... as the obligatory force of legal rules, the uniqueness of the modern institution ofinternational law, the role of law in legitima-tion struggles, and the progressive cosmopolitanisation of international law....
... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... consideration the time value of money, or where applicable, foreign currency exposure. The title of this ebook hints at the error in this traditional performance measure. Why would you want to know the ... transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of customers are using cloud services....
... R,islower;— the probability of success ofthe risky project, π,ishigher;— the efficiency of monitoring, P, is higher and the cost of monitoring, C,islower;— the cost of default, D, and the cost of loan ... affect the choice of a debt instrument, it facilitates empirical analysis of emergingmarket debt and suggests a direction for theories thereof. The empirical analysis supports the predictions ofthe ... numer-ically. The second and third terms represent the sum ofthethe marginal pdf and the conditionalcdf.Efficiency can be further improved if we take into account the panel structure ofthe data...
... evaluate the state of achievement of policy goals ofthe government sector only on the basis of financial data, the member SAIs must check whether the policies have led to the achievement of their ... convergence of such standards, and reviews past activities. (The views expressed in this paper are the personal views ofthe author and do not reflect the official view of the Board of Audit of Japan.) ... Code of Ethics, because the SAI’s independence from the audited entities, the transparency ofthe SAI’s organization and management, and the ethical views ofthe staff ofthe SAI addressed by those...
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... customary law. In the context of the discussion ofthe processes ofinternational law-making and hence of the sources or identification of its norms, the question ofthe kind of norms created27See ... THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAWSECTION I HISTORY OFTHE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW1 State of Nature versus Commercial Sociability as the Basis of International Law: Reflections on the ... law-making)and the existence of a rule of recognition (by reference to the customary nature of Article 38 ofthe ICJ Statute, e.g.).31 The second main critique ofthe legality of international...
... the case of males the positive effect of education on the number of diseases is driven by the fact thatbetter educated males choose more intensive screening. Turning to the decomposition of the ... εicgbt(24)where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε is the error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year ofthe interview, g gender, and b is the birthcohort.Following ... between the 1940s and the 1960s,and to restrict our attention to a sub-sample of 7 countries affected by these reforms.Table 4 shows the selected countries, the years and the content ofthe reforms...