We investigate the impact of ECB conventional (CMP) on national banking indices 10 Eurozone countries and a Eurozone-wide index using event study technique. find that announcements unexpected increases in interest rates benefit French, German, Greek Italian banks when are low, while other periods, effect is muted. A plausible explanation bank profits squeezed low because reluctant to push depos...

The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence the implicit entitlement to the € 352 billion stock of interest bearing assets which the central banks contributed to the currency union as of 1 January 1999....

The present research investigates the impact of trading volume on stock return volatility using data from Greek banking system. For our analysis, empirical study uses daily measures constructed intraday for period 5 January 2001–30 December 2020. This includes several market phases, such as latest financial crisis, European sovereign debt crisis and enforcement restrictions transactions owing t...

The fascinating story of olefin (or alkene) metathesis (eq 1) began almost five decades ago, when Anderson and Merckling reported the first carbon-carbon double-bond rearrangement reaction in the titanium-catalyzed polymerization of norbornene.1 Nine years later, Banks and Bailey reported “a new disproportionation reaction . . . in which olefins are converted to homologues of shorter and longer...

The proposed signs are used for the transliteration of the Arabic script into Gujarati by Ismaili Khoja communities. They are used for representing Arabic letters and signs for which correspondences do not exist in Gujarati. They were devised in the late 19th century and are standard elements of the Gujarati orthography used by the Ithnashari Khoja (“Twelver Shia”) and the Agakhani Khoja commun...

BACKGROUND No study to date has focused on the impact of Greek Orthodox Christian fasting on serum lipoproteins and obesity yet. METHODS 120 Greek adults were followed longitudinally for one year. Sixty fasted regularly in all fasting periods (fasters) and 60 did not fast at all (controls). The three major fasting periods under study were: Christmas (40 days), Lent (48 days) and Assumption (A...

L2 production of tones has been widely discussed; however, the role of orthography in the learning process has received little attention. Previous studies suggested that the opaque orthography of Chinese characters plays an important role in both L2 production and perception. The present study further investigates the role of different orthographies (Pinyin vs. Chinese characters) in L2 product...

The research aims to study the effects of economic policy uncertainty on return volatility stocks with data from largest banking institutions in Greece. Volatility is constructed using intraday data, whereas period extends over a about thirteen years, more specifically January 5, 2001, June 30, 2014. This includes various phases market, such as stock market crashes along booms (e.g. financial c...

This paper describes a work-flow designed to populate a digital library of ancient Greek critical editions with highly accurate OCR scanned text. While the most recently available OCR engines are now able after suitable training to deal with the polytonic Greek fonts used in 19th and 20th century editions, further improvements can also be achieved with postprocessing. In particular, the progres...