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... while the share ofthe entrepreneur 's income remains at the same level (24.5 per cent) This is the main part ofthe top managers of corporations and the most successful ofthe individual businessmen ... development ofthe productive forces is the socialisation of production This is expressed, first, in the enlargement ofthe enterprises themselves, in the conversion of small production units into ... managers to thefinancial tycoons is boundless and the atmosphere of secrecy enables the owners ofthe biggest fortunes to escape the limelight ofthe press.1 "The role ofthe manager in Britain has...
... companies generally lack any of these cushions against loss Financial businesses—In discussions about financial services modernization, usually refers to commercial banks and savings institutions, securities ... organizations that the SEC oversees) These include stock exchanges, securities brokerages (and numerous classes of their personnel), mutual funds, auditors, investment advisers, and others To maintain their ... supervises federally insured state savings associations The OTS is part ofthe Treasury Department but is primarily funded by assessments on covered institutions The primary business model of...
... intermediaries While the act of cross-listing in a U. S stock exchange automatically subjects the firm to a number of institutional requirements, such as the mandatory disclosure requirements ofthe SEC, the ... cross-listings supports the segmentation hypothesis This hypothesis suggests that the main advantage of cross-listing is that it breaks down investment barriers that would otherwise exist due to segmentation ... IPOs and Foreign SEOs, I test the main hypotheses of this paper on a joint sample of these two types of issuers Throughout the paper, unless otherwise specified, I refer to this joint subsample...
... the end ofthe 179 0s, the notes and deposits of chartered banks constituted the bulk ofthe U. S money supply, though specie and chits or shinplasters (the bearer liabilities of non-banks) also ... shareholdings, and the subsequent disruption to the local economy could also have imposed considerable indirect costs upon them Conclusion The U. S banking system has had a long and tumultuous history ... transaction of business and supplies to the enterprising, whose credit is good, the deficiency of capital, which is necessary for the successful prosecution of their plans.”79 Contemporaries also often...
... What is the value of certification and why should I get certified? These are big questions for individuals as well as organizations Easier tests lessen the value ofthe credential One ofthe positive ... identifies top industry experts in IT architecture These architects are experienced in using diverse platforms and technologies to solve business problems and provide business metrics and measurements ... Knowledge courses: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administration Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Business Intelligence Microsoft SQL 2005 Reporting Services Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers For more...
... What is the value of certification and why should I get certified? These are big questions for individuals as well as organizations Easier tests lessen the value ofthe credential One ofthe positive ... identifies top industry experts in IT architecture These architects are experienced in using diverse platforms and technologies to solve business problems and provide business metrics and measurements ... Knowledge courses: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administration Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Business Intelligence Microsoft SQL 2005 Reporting Services Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers For more...
... error—Since the NSFG is a cross-sectional survey, some questions rely on respondents’ ability to recall events that occurred in the past, such as dates of first sexual intercourse and marriage For some ... all survey data, these data are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part ofthe interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the ... Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OASPE) NCHS gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these programs and agencies, and all others who assisted...
... employees, in relation to the services it provides, to the quality assurance scheme and to the training of assessors Requirements ofthe system The system shall include the matters set out in the ... providers, and to accompany assessors on visits to child care providers during the process of assessment and on any subsequent checks once the provider is approved under the system Requirements during ... trained in the requirements ofthe system; ensure that a quality assessor does not and has not worked in any way with any child care provider he assesses (other than in assessing the quality of child...
... earnings as measured by ROA, and worse liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets These results closely follow the univariate results ... modest Logit Regression Results In Table are the results of a set of logistic regression models that provide the main results of our study In these models, the dependent variable is equal to one if ... components and likely seriously misclassifies “problem banks.” For all of these reasons, we not consider Torna s study to be a close substitute for ours The second point that we wish to make in this section...
... Chinese products and lower U. S interest rates That subsidy helps to boost U. S consumption of Chinese products, which supports China s export industries However, the subsidy is at the expense of ... flows to the United States Thus, Chinese purchases of all types of U. S securities (not just Treasury securities) should be considered when attempting to understand the impact China s investment ... forces Chinese workers to save a significant part of their income That savings is used to finance the Chinese government s purchases of U. S securities Chinese purchases and holdings of U. S securities...
... consolidation ofthe U. S banking industry and the advent of banks with interstate branches The largest U. S banks operate thousands of branch offices across several states For example, as of June ... Statistics Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office ofthe United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Rice and Strahan ... four southeastern states (Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), and two Great Plains states (Montana and North Dakota) Figure shows the distribution ofthe depositsbased failure...
... consequences that affect other users ofthe transportation system, communities through which the infrastructure passes, and the environment, because different modes of freight differ in their safety ... another, and shippers would make decisions reflecting the full costs of transportation Content of This Report Questions about the performance of freight infrastructure and the full social costs ... over highway congestion, rail freight is seen as part ofthe solution to increased logistics costs Many ofthe largest shippers optimize their logistics systems by shipping some of their inventory...
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... sufficient We could simply recover word structures in post-processing But this is far from the truth In Chinese there is a large number of such words We just name a few classes of these words and give ... incorporates word structures naturally Evaluation shows that the model can learn much ofthe regularity of word structures, and also achieves reasonable accuracy in parsing higher level constituent structures ... recover word structures in post-processing is that some words have very complex structures For example, the tree of 壃搕䈿擌懂揶 ‘anarchist’ is shown in Figure Parsing this structure correctly without a principled...
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... risks The results of this study provide the first formal estimates ofthe joint effect of derivative exposures on the systematic interest rate and exchange rate risks ofUS banks The rest ofthe ... subsequent discussion addresses the sources of these exposures Moreover, they also reveal that the interest rate and exchange rate betas are interdependent, which suggests that some sort of simultaneous ... adjust for possible bias due to crossequation dependencies, the return equations in each group are estimated as a simultaneous equation system, using a modified Seemingly Unrelated Technique (SUR)...