Archive for October, 2008
October 31, 2008 at 12:08 am
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October 29, 2008 at 12:08 am
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"In episodes of significant banking distress or perceived systemic risk to the financial system, policymakers have often opted for issuing blanket guarantees on bank liabilities to stop or avoid widespread bank runs. In theory, blanket guarantees can prevent bank runs if they are credible. However, guarantee could add substantial fiscal costs to bank restructuring programs and may increase moral hazard going forward. Using a sample of 42 episodes of banking crises, this paper finds that blanket guarantees are successful in reducing liquidity pressures on banks arising from deposit withdrawals. However, banks' foreign liabilities appear virtually irresponsive to blanket guarantees. Furthermore, guarantees tend to be fiscally costly, though this positive association arises in large part because guarantees tend to be employed in conjunction with extensive liquidity support and when crises are severe.
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Mark-to-market losses have increased substantially since the April Report across the majority of instruments, roughly doubling for the United Kingdom and the United States, and rising by even more for the euro area. Total mark-to-market losses across the three currency areas have risen to around US$2.8 trillion.
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We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized US companies that stood to benefit from US backed coups.
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Somali peace agreement
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October 28, 2008 at 12:07 am
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October 27, 2008 at 12:07 am
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Brash, ambitious, and optimistic, Herman Chinery-Hesse has already accomplished what many considered impossible — building a thriving tech business in his native Ghana. His new goal: to spark an entrepreneurial revolution in Africa by bringing e-commerce to the most remote corners of the continent.
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October 26, 2008 at 2:07 am
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One of the largest problems with the typical drip coffee maker is its weak wattage. You need a lot of electrical power to heat water up to its ideal brewing temperature. Otherwise, you lose out on many coffee flavors and aromas. Most hotel room coffee makers aren't up to the task, but I have three workarounds for you to follow.
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This is a preliminary study on the status of the U.S. in the global market for derivatives-related services. We include some of the policy choices available to enhance this status. We begin with a review of the importance of active and efficient derivatives markets for the U.S. economy. We then analyze the status of U.S. derivatives-market service providers in both over-the-counter and exchange-based markets. We then discuss factors that play a role in determining where a provider of derivatives services is located. By far the dominant factors are the regional concentration of customers and overall financial market activities. We also consider regulatory and legal factors, and access to specialized human resources, among other factors.
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The proliferation of mobile communications in developing countries has the potential to bring a wide range of financial services to an entirely new customer base, according to a new report commissioned by infoDev in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the GSM Association. The report, which focuses on the use of mobiles for micro-payments in the Philippines, found that mobile-enabled financial services, or m-Banking, can address a major service gap in developing countries that is critical to their social and economic development. In many developing countries, particularly in rural areas, access to financial services is limited. A large proportion of the population are excluded from formal banking systems and make payments entirely using cash, which is far less secure and flexible than electronic payment mechanisms.
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October 25, 2008 at 2:07 am
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The literature on instrument instability tends support to a policy of smoothing interest rates: it contends that rigid adherence to a monetary rule would bring about explosive interest-rate movements. This contention is examined using a simple model which incorporates rational expectations; the results suggest that instrument instability is associated with interest-rate smoothing rather than with short-term control of the money supply. Furthermore, policy that attempts to stabilize interest rates may itself account for empirical findings which have hitherto been viewed as evidence that instrument instability would occur if the money supply were closely controlled.
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The Joyce Foundation supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture. We are especially interested in improving public policies, because public systems such as education and welfare directly affect the lives of so many people, and because public policies help shape private sector decisions about jobs, the environment, and the health of our communities. To ensure that public policies truly reflect public rather than private interests, we support efforts to reform the system of financing election campaigns.
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October 24, 2008 at 12:07 am
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Warning: The following segment contains material that may be offensive to residents of: Ballard, Renton, Lynnwood, Fremont, Bothell, Kirkland, Duball, Hoquiam, Fife, Moses Lake, Federal Way, Kent, Everett, Tacoma, Chehalis, Bellingham, Skykomish, Monroe, Redmond, Bremerton and Burien.
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October 23, 2008 at 12:07 am
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The dollar is weak. Food and oil prices are high. Our nation is spending well beyond its means and owes trillions of dollars of debt to foreign governments. What most of the gloom-and-doom reports don't provide, however, is perspective - a historical survey of an economy that's been through more than a few ups and downs in its day. Here's a farsighted view of how our temperamental economic machine works, and close-up of how it stands today.
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How credit cards companies evaluates you.
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The idea of enhancing our mental functions through medical means makes many people uncomfortable. People have a vague feeling that altering our brains tinkers with the core of our personalities and the core of ourselves. It changes who we are, and doing so seems wrong, even if the exact reasons for the unease are difficult to define. Many of the standard arguments against neuroenhancements—that they are unsafe, that they violate the distinction between therapy and enhancements, that they undermine equality, and that they will be used coercively—fail to show why the use of any such technologies is wrong in principle. Two other objections—the arguments that such changes undermine our integrity and that they prevent us from living authentic lives—will condemn only a few of the uses that are proposed. The result is that very few uses of these drugs are morally suspect and that most uses are morally permissible.
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Michelle Rhee charged in as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data—and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country’s worst public schools ground zero for education reform, and attracted a cadre of young zealots some critics call “Rhee-bots.” Now the changes that she insists schoolchildren need are colliding head-on with the political wants of adults.
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Geeks and venture capitalists often don't speak the same language. This talk provides a look at venture capital financing from the point of view of the technologist. If you have an idea for a technology company or a technology you'd like to make into a product, should you look for VC backing? What should your expectations be going into the process? What are some of the common pitfalls technologists encounter when they try to find VC funding? How can you talk about your technology and your company in a way that will appeal to potential venture backers? We'll approach the topic of venture backing without getting bogged down in the finance terminology common to VC primers (though references for those topics will be provided). You'll be given a more informal set of advice; rules of thumb and cautions will predominate.
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GeoConnections supports projects that enable decision-makers to use location-based information to benefit public health, safety and security, the environment, and Aboriginal communities.
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October 22, 2008 at 12:07 am
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NGOConnect Africa is an online meeting space for like-minded non-profit entities, and the individuals, organizations and commercial and governmental entities that support them. This convergence of thinking and sharing ideas is known as a collaborative hub or e-Co Hub. This site is designed to grow and adapt to suit your needs regarding ICT. Today it is just the initial framework. We need your help for it to grow! The more you engage and contribute, the more it will change, adapt and respond… The more it will become a resource for you to better achieve your goals… The more others will get involved to help collaborate on projects and solutions.
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In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in this fit due to redistricting to identify the effects of reduced coverage. Exploring the links in the causal chain of media effects — voter information, politicians' actions and policy — we find statistically significant and substantively important effects. Voters living in areas with less coverage of their U.S. House representative are less likely to recall their representative's name, and less able to describe and rate them. Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings, to serve on constituency-oriented committees (perhaps), and to vote against the party line.
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Global M&A is widely recognised as one of the world's leading partnerships of independent merger and acquisition houses. Our prime purpose is to provide cross-border support and opportunities for clients who wish to complete acquisitions, company sales, buy-outs and buy-ins, fund raising and other corporate finance transactions.
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An open and frank conversation on the breakdown of financial markets around the world and if we can save the global economy. Will the Wall Street bailout plan work? What steps need to be taken in Europe and Asia to stem the market’s downward spiral? Are we headed for a global recession? Three of the leading minds in global economics will discuss the options.
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