On December 7, 2007, the US federal bank regulators (Agencies) published final rules'(Final
Rules) to implement the Basel II advanced internal ratings-based approach to bank capital …

Secured lenders beware: A Uniform Commercial Code search showing no other liens on
the prospective debtor's personal property is no guarantee that the lender's lien will have …

The changes to the banking book rules relate solely to securitization exposures, which are
subject to a framework separate from those that apply to retail, wholesale, or equity exposures…

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Surveys on voting behavior typically overestimate turnout rates substantially. To disentangle
different sources of bias - coverage error, nonresponse bias, and overreporting - we …

When it filed for bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers had nearly one million derivative contracts
outstanding. This article tells the story of some of those contracts, and the lessons that can be …

Recent progress in the development of room temperature, continuous wave, widely tunable,
mode-hop-free mid-infrared external cavity quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL) spectroscopic …

A transportable prototype Faraday rotation spectroscopic system based on a tunable external
cavity quantum cascade laser has been developed for ultrasensitive detection of nitric …

Assets underlying collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) have been hit particularly hard by
the credit crisis. New-issuance activity for CDOs has dropped dramatically, and liquidation, …

Readmissions to mental hospitals are often cited as evidence of the failure of the contemporary
mental health system. This essay proposes a different interpretation of readmissions. …