... at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe maintenance period that the operation falls under. Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the end ofthe year before the ... studies the data cross-sectionally. Section 5 presents the panel analysis and provides the main results ofthe paper. Section 6 concludes. The Appendix contains an overview ofthe structure ofthe ... cooperatives,they are 3.47 bps and −0.18 bps; for foreign banks, they are 2.84 bps and −0.15 bps; forLandesbanks, they are 2.83 bps and 0.50 bps; and for cooperative central banks, they are4.27 bps and...
... 2011 The Effectsof Funding Costs and Risk on Banks’ Lending RatesIntroductionThere are a number of factors that influence the way banks set lending rates. Among these, the costs of debt and ... middle ofthe range, as a result of some repricing of lending rates relative to these costs. In addition to the increase in the cost of debt funding, there have been other drivers ofthe rise ... wholesale debt (domestic and foreign). The share of securitisation has also fallen since the onset ofthe financial crisis, as the amortisation ofthe outstanding stock of residential mortgage-backed...
... of competition indicators 96 Results of hypothesis testing 99 Hypothesis 1 100 Hypothesis 2 101 Hypothesis 3 102 Hypothesis 4 103 Hypothesis 5 103 Hypothesis 6 104 Summary of hypothesis ... analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of bank-based and market-based financial systems. When the bank-based countries of Japan and Germany achieved higher growth rates than the United States andthe ... acceptable standards, and as such is fully adequate in scope and quality. It is therefore approved as the fulfillment ofthe Dissertation requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration....
... ceased, the year-end height and basal diameter of eachseedling planted in the field was recorded. The height was the distance from the ground to the tip of the longest ... when they were brought to the research center and planted. The plot was kept moderately weed-free dur-ing the course of the study using a combination of herbicides and ... the radicle trim point) were measured and recorded.Seedlings were then cut at the cotyledon scars, and the shoots and roots dried at 70 °C for2 days. These were then...
... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research. The study illustrates theeffectsof music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of ... understand the lyrics ofthe original song and they make comparison, they mainlyrecognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones. Hence, they maylook down on the musicians, ... a lot of singers“borrow” foreign songs without “permission” of authors and then they said those are theirsongs. Furthermore a lot of people don’t really understand about Music cover, they just...
... opportunities they have to apply and be rewarded for applying their skills. The link between productivity and wages in theory The question of interest is theeffectsof education and health status ... Estimate theeffectsof each ofthe target conditions on general health. 3. Combine the estimates from steps one and two to estimate the effect of each of the target conditions on wages. There ... estimating the effect ofthe target conditions on general physical and mental health (of which there are reliable measures in HILDA) and using that information to estimate theeffectsofthe target...
... N10 and E97 ofthe secondsubunit. The backbone NH group of R98 forms ahydrogen bond with the backbone CO of F102. Fur-thermore, the orientation ofthe side chain ofthe tworesidues brings the ... (Fig. 9B) [49]. The above discussion rationalizes the observed effects ofthe Y74W mutation in PfTIM on the stability of the dimeric structure and catalytic activity. Examination of the available ... features ofthe Y74W* mutant of PfTIM need to be rationalized: (a) the reduced stability of the dimeric structure, and (b) the significantly lowervalue of kcat, suggesting an impairment ofthe catalyticefficiency...
... coefficient, the localization and orientationin the phospholipid bilayer, andtheeffectsofthe presence of these peptides on phospholipid organization and pack-ing. The results of these experiments ... conformation.There is good evidence from studies oftheinteraction of GS and its analogs with bacterial cells that the destruction of the integrity ofthe lipid bilayer ofthe inner membraneis the primary ... in the order GS14 > GS10 > GS12, as does the temperature and the relative magnitude ofthe new endotherm orendotherms induced by the addition ofthe peptide.However, the magnitude of the...
... related and stronglypoint to the importance of changes in the surface properties of the PLB membrane. The obvious candidates for the driving forces in the case ofthe pH-dependent changes areeither ... issummarizedinFig.14. The relationship between spectral changesin POR and structural changes in PLB The existence of a correlation between the presence of the cubic membrane structure ofthe PLB andthe presence ... PORkinase therefore still remains unclear. The main line of evidence for the existence of a POR-phosphatase is the observation by Wiktorsson et al. [9] of aninhibition, by NaF and ATP, ofthe loss of...
... set.IV. The Profit Efficiency Effectsof Megamer~ers The Level of Profit Efficiency.We begin discussing the results with some information on the levels of profit efficiency of merging and nonmerging ... “ ‘standard profit efficiency model in equations (1) and parameters ofthe model. The level of profit efficiency the ratio of predicted profits to maximum or optimal profits on the frontier ... explanation ofthe increase in measured profit efficiency from megamergers maybe the specification ofthe profit finction. The standard profit function takes prices and fixed netputs asgiven and...