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- Fed Seeks Approval to Pay interest on Reserves: Report
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve, led by Chairman Ben Bernanke, is formally asking Congress for authority to pay interest on commercial bank reserves starting this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve's move is an attempt...
- News items 2008-05-06
- Negotiating Skills; What's My interest?
- The Palestinian Prime Minister had received support from militants to give up their weapons in exchange for government jobs. On face value it struck the author as a stark example of the difference between a person's interest and position. The position of the "Militants" is well publicised, their interests however,...
- White papers 2006-08-31
- interestMap: Harvesting Social Network Profiles For Recommendations
- This paper explores how one can build models of people outside of narrow application domains, by capturing the traces they leave on the Web, and inferring their everyday interests from this. In particular, for this work, the authors harvested 100,000 social network profiles, in which people describe themselves using a...
- White papers 2005-01-09
- The First U.N. Social Forum: History and Analysis
- In this paper, the first-ever U.N. Social Forum offers a potentially important, if currently immature and unproven, forum for injecting much-needed critical thinking and imagination into the discussion of how to resolve some of the world's most pressing and difficult issues. For the effort to be successful, the Social Forum...
- White papers 2003-11-08
- Sales And Exchanges Of Partnership interests
- A partnership is formed between two or more people for mutual interests and in order to achieve common long-term objectives. It is imperative to safeguard the interests of respective parties in a partnership. Sale or exchange of an interest in a partnership is governed by certain clauses. The paper examines...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Intermediary Risk In The Indirect Holding System For Securities
- This article simplifies certain terminology referring to a transaction with more than one securities intermediary. First, the term "investors" generally deemed to include not only investors but also intermediaries that have rights in securities held by other intermediaries. It also refers to holder of an interest in securities through an...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Electronic Watermarking: The First 50 Years
- This paper mentions that electronic watermarking technology can be traced back as far as 1954. The last 10 years has seen considerable interest in digital watermarking, due in large part to concerns about illegal piracy of copyrighted content. In this paper, some basic queries like: Is the interest warranted? What...
- White papers 2002-04-19
- Conflicts of interest in Biomedical Research
- Avoidance of real or perceived conflicts of interest in clinical research wherever possible is imperative if the medical community is to ensure objectivity, maintain individual and institutional integrity and present an image of objectivity and integrity to the outside world. This task is complex in part because of the paucity...
- White papers 2001-10-07
- Getting to the Point with interest-Based Negotiations
- By concentrating on the overall interests of both parties, issues of personal and cultural negotiation style can often be overlooked. Article says this is a point he stresses when teaching overseas: If you do a good job of negotiating, people from other cultures will respect you. What interest-based negotiations do,...
- White papers 1998-07-01
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- interest Rate Risk and Bank Net interest Margins
- The paper reveals that Banks and their supervisors have spent considerable time and effort in recent years developing systems for monitoring and managing interest rate risk. This special feature examines that specific component of interest rate risk arising from the possible effects of changes in market interest rates on bank...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Term Structure of interest Rates and Monetary Policy During a Zero-interest-Rate Period
- This paper empirically evaluates the validity of the term structure of interest rates in a low-interest-rate environment. The paper further reveals that the term-structure model is found to be useful for economic analysis only when interest rates are high. When interest rates are low, the usefulness of the model declines,...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Term Structure of interest Rates, Yield Curve Residuals, and the ConsIstent Pricing of interest Rates and interest Rate Derivatives
- Dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) price interest rate derivatives based on the model implied fair values of the yield curve, ignoring any pricing residuals on the yield curve that are either from model approximations or market imperfections. This paper proposes a new framework that consistently prices both interest rates and...
- White papers 2002-09-10
- Basics of card rates
- This article explains basic rules of interest rates on credit-card debt that includes Interest rates are variable, Rates are higher than those for secured loans, Interest rates have a ceiling, Interest on credit card debt is not tax-deductible. Credit card rates are set by adding a spread, or margin, to...
- White papers 2003-09-08
- When Accrued Dividends Become Capital Gains
- From the executive summary: ‘When a bond is purchased and sold between interest payment dates, the portion of the purchase price attributable to interest that has accrued to the date of purchase is treated as interest income to the seller of the bond. As a result, the buyer treats the...
- White papers 2002-08-21
- Why Is interest Rate Swap Usage Responding to the Yield Curve? A Proposal
- Interest rate swaps provide for a particularly interesting experiment. Unlike the commonly-used forward and futures contracts employed by firms to modify their currency and commodity cash flow exposures, interest rate swaps have cash flow implications at multiple times over the full life of the derivative contract. This paper examines the...
- White papers 2004-02-13
- Bond Management Strategies
- Bond management strategies are based on interest rate anticipation, sector rotation and security selection. Strategies, which involve forecasting interest rates and altering a bond portfolio to take advantage of that forecast, are called Interest rate anticipation strategies. Interest rates are the most important factor in the pricing of bonds. The...
- White papers
- Estimating the Natural Rate of interest: A SVAR Approach
- This article estimates the historical time series of the natural rate of interest using a structural vector autoregressive model. This method returns plausible results and thus seems to be well designed for the estimation of the natural rate of interest. It shows that the natural rate exhibits quite substantial variability...
- White papers 2003-01-10
- Towards a New Measure of interest Rate Expectations in Canada:
- This article gives you a clear view of how financial markets expect interest rates to behave is very useful in the conduct of monetary policy. Information on the market's view of future short-term interest rae movements enables monetary authorities to identify any discrepancies between the path they desire for interest...
- White papers
- Irreversible Investment Under interest Rate Variability: New Results
- This paper studies the impact of interest rate and revenue variability on the decision to carry out an irreversible investment project. Given the generality of the considered valuation problem, it first provides a thorough mathematical characterization of the problem and develops some new results. Contrary to what previous literature has...
- White papers 2003-12-11
- An interest Rate Defense of a Fixed Exchange Rate?
- This white paper deals with a model, in which the interest rate is the passive reflection of currency-depreciation expectations. This paper shows how to adapt the KFG model to allow for an interest rate defense. It is shown that increasing domestic-currency interest rate makes domestic assets more attractive according to...
- White papers 2000-04-01
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