... assets percentiles are similar to those using NYSE market capitaliza- tion percentiles. Please cite this article as: Custo ´ dio, C., et al., Why are US firms using more short-term debt? Journal of ... similar conclusions using board independence as a proxy for corporate govern- ance quality. Please cite this article as: Custo ´ dio, C., et al., Why are US firms using...
... analysed using the SPSS version 14.0 programme (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Signifi-cance of differences was assessed by the Chi2-method for categorical variables and for continuous variables ... group A. Present or previous resi-dential environmental exposure like; reports of mould damage, unusual or bad smell or dry air inside the house were significantly more frequent reported in gro...
... 0.4 or 0.8 ml/mouse) treatment groups. They were fed intragastrically (i.g.) daily for 14 and 28 days. Tumor areas were measured every 7 days using a caliper, and the tumor area was calculated ... 0859, Email: chcho@hkusua.hku.hk
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2004 1(3): 137-145 138 1. Introduction Natural botanical products have a long history in the world and are featured in using a complex combi...
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... concern would be well justified. Now that the Federal Reserve is
paying interest on reserves, however, matters are different.
When the economy begins to recover, firms will have more profitable ... these excess reserves can the central bank limit banks’ willingness to
lend to firms and households and cause short-term interest rates to rise.
Paying interest on reserves breaks...
... suggest firms are
successfully ‘timing’ the debt market by issuing short-term debt during periods when excess bond
returns are high. Although it seems unlikely that the small firms in the SBF are ... constraints, since it is unclear whether low debt firms are less
constrained (because they have a higher reserve of debt capacity) or more constrained (because their...
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potential effect of outliers, we will use alternative econometric techniques in our robustness
analysis. Specifically, we will use median least square regressions and robust regressions that
both control ... agricultural loans are more risky – implying a
higher risk premium, thus increasing ex-ante interest rates and reducing ex-post interest revenue
and thus margins. A higher share...
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Companies using this business model exclusively are very rare, but some technology companies
generate part of their revenues this way. Example: Lucent’s Bell Labs (see
patentsales.lucentssg.com). Firms ... providing customer service. This business model is ubiquitous in wholesale and
retail trade.
(3) A Landlord sells the right to use, but not own, an asset for a specified period o...
... changes we use corpus-based
techniques to identify changes in language usage.
We compare two corpora: (1) the full set of blog
posts, referred to as the standard corpus, and (2) a
corpus associated ... the mood. Then we form
queries using these “overused” words as well as
the date(s) of the peaking interval and run these as
queries against a news corpus.
4.1 Overused words To discover the r...
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Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit
Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
Abhijit Bannerjee & Esther Duflo
BREAD Working Paper No. 005
Revised August 2004 ... profitability.
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Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a
Directed Lending Program*
Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo
BREAD Working Paper No. 005
Revised August 20...