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Sns Reaal Announces Sale Vivat Verzekeringen To Anbang Insurance Group, Sns Reaal

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Banking Crises: Lessons From Sweden And Norway, Timothy Edmonds

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Benoît Cœuré: Interview In Delo, Benoit Coeure

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Advisory Report On The Conditional Sale Of Reaal N.V. To Anbang Insurance Group Co. Limited, Nl Financial Investments

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Bamc Launches Internal Probe, Bank Assets Management Company (Bamc)/Družba Za Upravljanje Terjatev Bank, D.D. (Dutb)

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Decision (Eu) 2015/300 Of The European Central Bank Of 10 February 2015 On The Eligibility Of Marketable Debt Instruments Issued Or Fully Guaranteed By The Hellenic Republic, European Central Bank (Ecb)

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decision revoking the third waiver that allowed Greek debt in open-market operations regardless of credit rating

China Monetary Policy Report 2014 Q4, People's Bank Of China: Monetary Policy Analysis Group

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Why Do We Need Both Liquidity Regulations And Lender Of Last Resort? A Perspective From Federal Reserve Lending During The 2007-09 U.S. Financial Crisis, Mark Carlson, Burcu Duygan-Bump, William Nelson

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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs - Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C.

Psalms In Our Lamentable World, Don Saliers

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Where are worshipers in Christian communities to go with their experiences and observations of violence, injustice, and other forms of suffering? Historically, a central source of realistic faith-based responses to tragedy has been the Psalter, broadly defined as a set of biblical psalms arranged by date to be individually and collectively read, sung, and prayed. Recent scholarship on psalms has focused on lament and complaint, and questions regarding the presence of trauma and violence in religious traditions have shown such psalms to be particularly relevant to contemporary culture.

This article examines three “psalms of lament,” Psalms 13, 42/43, and 88, …

Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Bwv 248, And The Jews, Daniel R. Melamed

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

It has been recognized since the nineteenth century that most of the poetic arias and choruses in J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 are parodies of music composed to other texts. In the early twentieth century it was claimed that at least one gospel narrative chorus was also derived from extant music, a hypothesis subsequently expanded to include several such movements said to be parodies as well. The claims are flimsily argued and are unlikely on source-critical grounds, but they have stuck, persisting in scholarly writings, reference works, and popular literature.

The origin of this idea is a 1916 …

More Than Simple Psalm-Singing In English: Sacred Music In Early Colonial America, Robin A. Leaver

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Histories of American sacred music frequently begin with the pilgrims’ arrival in Plymouth, bringing with them their Ainsworth’s psalter, published in Amsterdam. In subsequent decades other English-speaking colonists brought with them copies of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter published in London. But both these psalters were increasingly deemed unsatisfactory for English-speaking colonial life, so the attempt was made to create a new American psalter, the so-called Bay Psalm Book published in Cambridge, Mass., in 1640, which in later editions morphed into what was called the New England Psalm Book. Thus English colonialism and its distinctive New England psalmody is frequently …

Buddhism As Performing Art: Visualizing Music In The Tibetan Sacred Ritual Music Liturgies, Jeffrey W. Cupchik

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The eleventh-century Tibetan female ascetic, Machik Labdrön (1055-1153), developed a Vajrayāna (Tantric) Buddhist meditation method called Chöd (Tib. gCod, Eng. “to cut”) and associated ritual practices as a means of eliminating “self-grasping,” which is defined as the mistaken instinct of regarding one’s “self” and all phenomena as intrinsically, or independently, existent. Her musical-meditation method became renowned across Central Asia during her lifetime, and Chödritual practices and liturgies have been transmitted from teacher to disciple in unbroken lineages until today. The ritual is now well known globally, with Tibetan Lamas, nuns, and empowered exponents teaching widely, across a transnational …

Restoration Or Invention? Archbishop Cisneros And The Mozarabic Rite In Toledo, Susan Boynton

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

As archbishop of Toledo from 1495 to 1517, Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros carried out a multifaceted campaign of support for the Mozarabic rite, which had been preserved in the Middle Ages by Christians living in Toledo under Muslim rule. Although the Roman rite was introduced into the cathedral in 1086, the Toledan Mozarabs had continued to follow their ancient liturgy in their parishes. By the end of the Middle Ages, however, the rite was rarely celebrated. Fearing that it might become obsolete, in 1501 Cisneros endowed a chapel in his cathedral for the Mozarabic rite and established a clergy of …

A Note From The Director, Martin Jean

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

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Editorial, Robin A. Leaver

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

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Pbc Decides To Cut Required Reserve Ratio For All Financial Institutions And To Provide Targeted Required Reserve Ratio Cut For Selected Institutions, People's Bank Of China

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Deposit Insurance Act, Taiwan: Legislative Yuan

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State Aid Sa.39991 (2014/N) – Portugal Eleventh Prolongation Of The Portuguese Guarantee Scheme, European Union: European Commission

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Commission Decision (Eu) 2015/162, European Union: European Commission

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Peer Review Of Russia: Review Report, Financial Stability Board (Fsb)

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Housing & Government Sponsored Enterprises Fy 2016 President's Budget, United States: Department Of The Treasury

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Housing & Government Sponsored Enterprises Fy President's Budget, United States: Department Of The Treasury

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Fiscal Year 2016 President's Budget

Fakta: Disse Banker Er Ikke Omfattet Af Statsgarantien, Af Signe Gry Braad

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Estimating The Production Function For Human Capital: Results From A Randomized Control Trial In Columbia, Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir

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The Center Of Excellence Model For Information Services (Clir Pub 163), Heather Gendron, Joy Kirchner, Jose Diaz, Susan Fliss, Geneva Henry, John Culshaw, Jon E. Cawthorne

Library Staff Publications

In 2013, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a group of librarians from ARL's Research Library Leadership Fellows program a planning grant to examine the center of excellence (CoE) model for information services. Used in a variety of industries, CoEs are designed to attract the most talented researchers in a particular field, enhance collaboration, and improve access to the resources needed for their research. The planning grant was awarded to determine whether the CoE model could serve as a means to provide the new services required for the effective use of digital information.

This report describes the team's approach to …

Unbiased Instrumental Variables Estimation Under Known First-Stage Sign, Isaiah Andrews, Timothy B. Armstrong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We derive mean-unbiased estimators for the structural parameter in instrumental variables models with a single endogenous regressor where the sign of one or more first stage coefficients is known. In the case with a single instrument, the unbiased estimator is unique. For cases with multiple instruments we propose a class of unbiased estimators and show that an estimator within this class is efficient when the instruments are strong. We show numerically that unbiasedness does not come at a cost of increased dispersion in models with a single instrument: in this case the unbiased estimator is less dispersed than the 2SLS …

Unbiased Instrumental Variables Estimation Under Known First-Stage Sign, Isaiah Andrews, Timothy B. Armstrong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We derive mean-unbiased estimators for the structural parameter in instrumental variables models with a single endogenous regressor where the sign of one or more first stage coefficients is known. In the case with a single instrument, there is a unique non-randomized unbiased estimator based on the reduced-form and first-stage regression estimates. For cases with multiple instruments we propose a class of unbiased estimators and show that an estimator within this class is efficient when the instruments are strong. We show numerically that unbiasedness does not come at a cost of increased dispersion in models with a single instrument: in this …

Transparency And Distressed Sales Under Asymmetric Information, William Fuchs, Andrzej Skrzypacz

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We analyze price transparency in a dynamic market with private information and correlated values. Uninformed buyers compete inter- and intra-temporarily for a good sold by an informed seller suffering a liquidity shock. We contrast public versus private price offers. In a two-period case all equilibria with private offers have more trade than any equilibrium with public offers; under some additional conditions we show Pareto-dominance of the private-offers equilibria. If a failure to trade by the deadline results in an efficiency loss, public offers can induce a market breakdown before the deadline, while trade never stops with private offers.

Unbiased Instrumental Variables Estimation Under Known First-Stage Sign, Isaiah Andrews, Timothy B. Armstrong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We derive mean-unbiased estimators for the structural parameter in instrumental variables models with a single endogenous regressor where the sign of one or more first stage coefficients is known. In the case with a single instrument, there is a unique non-randomized unbiased estimator based on the reduced-form and first-stage regression estimates. For cases with multiple instruments we propose a class of unbiased estimators and show that an estimator within this class is efficient when the instruments are strong. We show numerically that unbiasedness does not come at a cost of increased dispersion in models with a single instrument: in this …

Unbiased Instrumental Variables Estimation Under Known First-Stage Sign, Isaiah Andrews, Timothy B. Armstrong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We derive mean-unbiased estimators for the structural parameter in instrumental variables models with a single endogenous regressor where the sign of one or more first stage coefficients is known. In the case with a single instrument, the unbiased estimator is unique. For cases with multiple instruments we propose a class of unbiased estimators and show that an estimator within this class is efficient when the instruments are strong. We show numerically that unbiasedness does not come at a cost of increased dispersion in models with a single instrument: in this case the unbiased estimator is less dispersed than the 2SLS …