As liquidity conditions in the term funding markets grew increasingly strained in late 2007, the Federal Reserve began making funds available directly to banks through a new tool, the Term Auction Facility (TAF). The TAF provides term funding on a collateralized basis, at interest rates and amounts set by auction. The facility is designed to improve liquidity by making it easier for sound insti...

This paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum of envisaged changes will considerably alter the institutional balance between the three main actors, i.e. the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. The latter, in particular, will have an ...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the major factors that influence Chinese students’ decision-making of an overseas study destination. The major education markets are USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany France and Japan. Chinese students constitute the largest proportion of international students in the world education market accounting for about 14% of the total market (UNESCO 2006...

This paper studies the evolution of political institutions in the face of conflict. We examine institutional reform in a class of pivotal mechanisms—institutions that behave as if the resulting policy were determined by a “pivotal” decision maker drawn from the potential population of citizens and who holds full policy-making authority at the time. A rule-ofsuccession describes the process by w...

There are many problems that usually R & D centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.Such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. The researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks according ...

David R. Hansen is Digital Library Fellow at the University of California Berkeley School of Law; e-mail: [email protected]. William M. Cross is Director of the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center at North Carolina State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Phillip M. Edwards is Instructional Consultant in the Center for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University; e-mail...

Cyberstalking is a significant challenge in the era of Internet and technology. When dealing with cyberstalking, institutions and governments alike have a problem in how to manage it and where to allocate resources. Hence, it is important to understand how individuals feel about the problem of cyberstalking so it can be managed in the context of cybersecurity. To do this the problem question is...