in this paper, first the direct role of the banks, financial and credit institutions and the us stock markets in creating the crisis would be analyzed which was famous as the “occupy wall street movement” by the sudden expanding of recession, unemployment and poverty underlying the emergence of people protests; then the reactions, not only passive but in american public opinion biased and suppo...

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Fourth Quarter 2003 U p until a few years ago, State Street Bank was just another big bank in Boston. But in 1998 the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals used a patent case filed by the bank to transform the law concerning what is patentable. Since then, the bank’s name has been irrevocably linked to a landmark case. Like Linda Brown of B...

We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microblogging site Twitter, we investigate changes in Occupy participant engagement, interests, and social connectivity over a fifteen month period starting three months prior to the movement's first protest action. The res...

The prevailing view on the left is that Dodd-Frank was a major victory for Wall Street. There are valid reasons for progressives to reach that conclusion. The most important is that, despite its length, Dodd-Frank mostly lays out a broad regulatory framework, allowing the various regulatory agencies to settle on the details of implementation over the next few years. Both Wall Street lobbyists a...

We examine how alumni ties with corporate boards differentially affect male and female analysts' job performance and career outcomes. Connection improves men's job performance— forecasting accuracy and recommendation impact—significantly more than women's. Controlling for performance, connection further contributes to men's, but not women's, likelihood of being voted by institutional investors ...

This paper gives an overview of the current state of the Prague English Dependency Treebank project. It is an updated version of a draft text that was released along with a CD presenting the first 25% of the PDT-like version of the Penn Treebank – WSJ section (PEDT 1.0). Before the January 2009 release, the conversion from the original phrase structure trees into dependency trees as well as the...

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