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... unimportant from the early 1930s to sometime in the 1950s. Nevertheless, for consistency with the other series in What Was the Interest Rate Then? one must determine the year in which the “switch” ... description of the development of the interest-rate series in What Was the Interest Rate Then? The objective of the project was to generate interest-rate series for the United States and United Kingdom ... made by others. The great increase in the use of the Treasury bill to finance government borrowing [in the First World War] allowed the discount market to survive by making these its main asset.”—Capie...
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PEACE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY pot
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The Frontier in American History pot
... of the frontiers, to be held in common by the society. The power of ordering and managing these lands, and the settling and planting of them, was to remain in the society. Virginia was to pay the ... consequently the beginning of a more special interest in the interior. Let us first examine the northern part of the movement into the back country. The expansion of New England into the vacant ... of instituting a strong government in the period of the confederacy. The frontier individualism has from the beginning promoted democracy. The frontier States that came into the Union in the...
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Introduction - recent debates in maternal–fetal medicine – what are the ethical questions
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On the Segregation of Genetically Modified, Conventional, and Organic Products in European Agriculture: A Multi-market Equilibrium Analysis doc
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The Decline in Core Deposits: What Can Banks Do? potx
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PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS doc
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The Importance of Reporting Incentives: Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms potx
... but they may also abuse discretion when it is in their interest. For this reason, reporting incentives are likely to play an integral role in determining the informativeness of reported accounting ... referred to as insider economies. The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries would generally be viewed as being somewhere in the middle. Second, accounting regulation within the European Union ... together with the controls. The coefficients on the variables of interest are highly significant. In fact, the t-statistic for the PUBL coefficient in the complete model is larger than in any other...
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Livestock and Climate Change What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs, and chickens? docx
... under the Kyoto Protocol. Indeed, since part of the carbon consumed is stored in the live tis- sue of the growing animal, a growing global herd could even be considered a carbon sink. The standing ... them. At the same time, children are being increasingly educated on climate change in school, and are searching for activities that allow them to experiment with what they have learned. Yet they ... adver- tising, having less-ingrained habits than adults, and often seek to catch the wave of a new trend. Parents often join in eating a fast food meal or other food product that their chil- dren insist...
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Concern for Europe’s Tomorrow Health and the Environment in the WHO European Region pot
... Sectors in the high income countries of the Region was about US $11 000–33 000, and the aver- age annual growth rate of GNP in all the high income economies was 2.3% in the period 1980–1991. The ... with other factors, con- tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. Table 1.4 illustrates economic growth in 1989–1993. The annual ... de- crease in the share of agriculture, an increase in the role of industry in two groups of coun- tries, and a decrease for industry and an in- crease for services in the third. 1.2.3 The CCEE...
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THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET IN THAILAND pot
... countries with THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET IN THAILAND 48 able with the new technology. Also, the increased presence of the Internet in rural areas would help ISPs promote their services in the long ... http://www.nectec.or.th/inet-map/1995/ THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET IN THAILAND 20 key personnel. Yunyong explained that engineering students at the univer- sity were always allowed to participate in the setting up of the Internet gateway ... political instability. Since the beginning, the government was very slow to acknowledge the importance of the Internet, and react to the country’s shortage of human resources. Instead of promoting the...
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What Every MBA Student in the World Needs to Know pdf
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... In prostate tests PSA what is the difference between total PSA and free PSA? What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood ... blood that there is no prostate cancer? Doesn’t the existence of any PSA means that the body is reacting with antibodies against cancerous cells in the prostate. PSA starts out in the fluid that ... is a protein normally made in the prostate gland in ductal cells. These cells make some of the semen that comes out of the penis during sexual climax (orgasm). PSA helps to keep the semen liquid. PSA...
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Air Pollution Exposure in European Cities: the EXPOLIS Study pot
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Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology pot
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Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles pdf
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Common factors in the performance of European corporate bonds – evidence before and after financial crisis pdf
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