... from the discussant and participants at the conference on the Interaction of Market and Credit Risk jointly hosted by the Basel Committee, the Bundesbank andthe Journal of Banking and Finance ... account of credit and interest rate risk inthe banking book in a consistent fashion The way credit and interest rate risk are modelled individually is in line with standard practices The credit risk ... credit, interest rate risk inthe banking book, operational and other risks) and computing returns on risk weighted assets, Kuritzkes and Schuermann (2007) find that interest rate risk inthe banking...
... authoritative inthe Middle Ages called their authority into question When combined with the propaganda potential of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a major force behind the ... extinguished the public sphere inthe Netherlands in both and , in Italy, in revolutionary France and, to a slightly lesser extent, in Napoleonic Germany Inthe Napoleonic period, the ... Dublin He has published many works on both French and Irish history, including The Newspaper Press inthe French Revolution (), Ireland andthe French Revolution () andThe Terror in the...
... ‘lean’,’ incline’, ‘be’ - The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending." (Henry, M.) (10) In order to show the act ... their idioms, their synonyms and other microlinguistic factors that effect the uses of the two verbs The findings of the study on the ground of general meanings may help the translators to find ... meanings andthe distribution of forms and meanings of their native language and culture to the foreign language and culture- both productively and when attempting to speak the language and to act in...
... determine the Theme/ Rheme boundary The Interpersonal Theme includes all elements coming before the topical Theme that express interpersonal meaning The interpersonal part of the Theme in English ... identification of Theme boundary The Theme extends from the beginning of the clause up to (and including) the first element that has a function in transitivity This element is called the topical Theme So, ... participant saying, telling, stating, informing, asking, demanding, offering, threatening, suggesting and so on, The Sayer can be a human or human-like speaker, and also any other symbolic source Other...
... experience of airline customers and determine their level of satisfaction with the airline While there are certainly other determinants of customer satisfaction inthe airline industry, this study ... factor in attracting and retaining customers, US airlines seem to fall far short of the standard, and their promises to better inthe customer service area remain mostly unfulfilled (Bowen and Headley, ... Discussion and implications of the study Findings of this study support the premise of “contact theory” which recognizes the interface between the firm andthe customer to be a seminal element of...
... designed in parts: Part A is the Introduction giving the reasons for choosing the topic, the aims of the study, the scope of the study, the methods andthe design of the study 13 Part B is the Development ... connective according to the internal role they have inside logic, regardless of meaning they are intended to have (if any) The semantic point of view, in contrast, is based on the intuitive meaning of ... pronoun The negative form above includes indefinite pronoun as the subject of sentence But in this kind, the indefinite pronoun is placed after the main verb as the object of sentence For instance:...
... improving reading skill andin doing some English-Vietnamese translation I found that students still have many problems in understanding the texts, and especially in interpreting the writers opinion ... would be interesting to investigate their uses in them all However, in order to make our tasks manageable in keeping the aims of the study, within the time allowance, it is intended that the most ... and by other linguistic and paralinguistic devices Also, in this chapter, basic knowledge about modal verbs in English andin Vietnamese is provided And finally, to consolidate the analysis and...
... time-varying differences inthe prices, andinthe liquidity and insurance benefits of these two assets, which rationalize the movements in spread curves and maturity composition observed inthe data ... their median relative to when spreads are below their median inthe model andinthe Brazilian data Debt duration inthe model mirrors the dynamics of duration inthe bond data of Brazil Inthe ... remain high, andthe probability of default further inthe future falls The persistence and mean reversion of default and repayment probabilities driven by the dynamics of debt and income therefore...
... debris,15 there is increasing awareness of the seriousness of the problem and both the governmental sector andthe industry have made efforts to mitigate the hazard by developing procedures and standards ... which, in addition to the protection of the “Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems andthe intrinsic value of Antarctica, including its wilderness and aesthetic values and ... legally binding international instruments.78 The expertise and contacts these groups gain at the international level are likely to further enhance their in uence,79 particularly if they are capable...
... measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR The drop inthe mean and variability of the BEIR inthe latter half of the sample coincides with a drop inthe mean and variability ... explain the declining differential between the BEIR and survey measures of inflation expectations over the mid-1990s In fact, there has been an improvement in liquidity since the beginning of the ... ytm ,t Inthe case of a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm Inthe case of the RRB, we use the market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm Inthe absence of distortions, the spread...
... things; in short, to name them and by naming them to raise them into the domain of the spirit Inthe making of speech and language the spirit is continually "sparking" between matter and mind, ... calling the process inthe savage mind "quite another thing" from that inthe child-mind, he is speaking of the originators of the ritual on the one hand and of the child of to-da on the other ... decorated the masks, wear them themselves and after use conceal them from the women They make the noises heralding the appearance of the ghosts, they trace their footprints inthe sand, they blow the...
... underlying the various national accounting rules inside the EU were simply too different Standards in countries like the Netherlands andthe United Kingdom were devised with investors in mind and ... the globe In other words, investors will prefer investing in national companies rather than in companies located in other countries, depriving themselves of investment opportunities offered in ... result of the Enron and Worldcom scandals, recognized the validity of IFRS and principles-based accounting standards As a result, it enjoined the SEC andthe U.S Financial Accounting Standards...
... pairing of the interchain disulfide bridges inthe recombinant sample [11] The kinetics of the N-terminal arms swapping inthe P19A-BSRNase is comparable to that of BS-RNase (Fig 5B) Interestingly, ... into an apparent molar heat capacity taking into account the instrument calibration curve andthe buffer–buffer scanning curve, and by dividing each data point by the scan rate andthe protein ... have investigated the effects of mutation of two paradigmatic residues involved inthe dislocation of BS-RNase N-terminal arms, i.e Pro19 and Leu28, located inthe hinge peptide andinthe intersubunit...
... connection (either inthe house or through work), frequency of contact with the grandmother, the mother’s perception of the quality of the neighborhood, whether the mother worked inthe NHS before the ... over-report their uptake 25 The variables measuring the frequency of contact with the grandmother andthe mother’s perception of the quality of the area are presented here in binary form; inthe regressions ... messages inthe UK may also have been increased by the handling of the information of the risk associated with the “Mad Cow” diseases inthe mid-Nineties andthe allegation of cover up by the government...
... Regarding the output gap, the length of the business cycles booms and busts are in line with the consensus view inthe business cycle literature However, the estimated output gap is influenced by the ... a change inthe output gap on ination, on the other hand, seems to be slightly stronger inthe euro area compared to the US and Germany The null hypothesis that the coecients of the ination terms, ... 2) suggests that the natural real interest rate has declined from around 4% inthe 1960s to less than 2% in 2004 Inthe model, the decline inthe natural real interest rate inthe euro area is...
... overdosing and disposal of the containers Thereafter, nine demographic indicators are incorporated as the candidate determinants, including information on the householders, land use and cropping ... production, and cover the following processing and circulations of food The processes also include eating and drinking, intake and metabolism of food, management of the residues and wastes Based on the ... rapeseed in Shandong is the highest, but the yields in Hebei and Beijing are very low, so overall the yield inthe three northern regions is higher than the three regions inthe south The yield...
... reported, as e.g the hanging of curtains (55%), the fixing of household devices (51%), the cleaning of windows (45%), ironing (34%) and making the bed (34%) Moreover, Institute for Innovation and Technology ... in fostering and initiating research in this field They pursue this goal for example by supporting research projects in their respective nations Inthe context of ICT for the independent living ... between old and new member states on the one hand and northern and southern member states on the other hand There are various reasons for these differences, which would need further investigation...
... the extrinsic signal alone This indicates that the intrinsic signal inhibits the extrinsic signal, i.e., there is a crossinhibition The larger the value of Se the stronger the inhibition by the ... M, tM, and s) are smaller for the extrinsic stimulus (a) than for the intrinsic stimulus (b) Contrary to Table 3, the response to the combined signal is between the intrinsic andthe extrinsic ... stronger is the amplification by extrinsic signals and, thus, the less is the specificity of activation concerning the intrinsic signal In cases where Si > 1, the activation by the intrinsic signal...