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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Reserve System"”.
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The independent status of the Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is a complex central bank system which determines the money supply and the level of interest rates. The System was established in 1913 as a monetary authority primarily concerned with maintaining an elastic reserve system which would act as a check on bank runs and money …
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The Central Bankers: Administrative Legitimacy and the Federal Reserve System
… I study the legitimacy of the Federal Reserve System. Administrative legitimacy, I argue, is an evaluative (or subjective) concept consisting of two beliefs: first, administrative institutions have a right to govern; second, they are an appropriate way to handle public tasks. After …
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A study of Federal Reserve System monetary and credit policy actions from 1950 to 1957
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Extent of Alabama's terrestrial nature reserve system in representing ecosystem diversity: a coarse filter gap analysis
Numerous studies reveal that existing nature reserves do not effectively represent ecosystem diversity and biodiversity. In this study, Alabama's public and private reserve lands were analyzed to see how representative they were of biodiversity. The spatial distribution and characteristics of …
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A landscape approach used in designing a representative reserve system for the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
… undertaken in order to propose a representative system of reserves which would protect the biodiversity within the study area. A technique based on the "Gap Analysis Programme" was used. This involved the determination of the representativeness of natural landscapes within the existing reserves, …
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Opening the reserves floodgates: The SARB's new excess reserve system and its impact on the South African banking system
… the impact on the South African banking system of the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) decision to shift from the traditional shortage reserves system to one that is now based on excess reserves. This shift changes the behaviour of the banking system that could have significant …
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Flora of the Cape Peninsula : endemism, threatened plants and conservation in perspective
… An analysis using a Geographic Information System (GIS) showed the present reserve system inadequate in terms of protecting all plant and endemic faunal species on the Peninsula. The inclusion of all publicly owned land into the reserve system improved the conservation status dramatically, …
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The Evolution of the Federal Reserve's Mandate in Response to the Global Financial Crisis: The Case for Financial Stability
… thesis looks at the evolution of the Federal Reserve’s mandate and regulatory responsibilities as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. The onset of the crisis exposed the financial system to risks that had yet to be identified by the traditional microprudential regulatory framework, …
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Designing Contiguous and Minimally Fragmented Nature Conservation Reserve Networks
… with two important spatial criteria, namely reserve contiguity and minimal fragmentation, using graph theoretic approaches and linear integer programming. The optimization methods presented in those studies are modified to improve computational efficiency of the solution procedure, which may …
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Does Decertification Work? Outcome Analysis of the National Football Leagues Negotiated Order (1986-2008).
… legitimacy of the League's highly restrictive reserve system. An outcome-focused content analysis was designed as a preliminary investigation to ascertain why an alternative strategy was sought and if the strategy proved more effective in securing the players' preferred ends than conventional …
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The Modern U.S. Federal Reserve: To What Extent is Transparency Counterproductive and Politicizing?
… potentially politicizing within the U.S. Federal Reserve system. It exemplifies a Venn diagram intersection of political and economic theory – and given the meaningful change in behavior at the Fed – to some extent organizational theory as well. This political economy orientation may be …
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To defend ourselves: common property management of forests in northern Thailand
… State-defined property rights and the forest reserve system were superimposed over customary common property systems which traditionally existed in northern Thailand. In the contemporary scene this is resulting in considerable tension between the traditional villagers' view of forests as …
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"PRACTICALLY IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES": THE 1ST REGIMENT, NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1903-1912
… attempted to create a more robust and formalized reserve system to augment the regular army. While many regular officers advocated a federalized reserve, they were opposed by members of the National Guard Association, who insisted that state troops remain the nation’s second line of defense. In …
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Ability of Agricultural Bankers to Forecast Farm Income and Expenditures
<p>The Federal Reserve System conducts a quarterly survey of agricultural banks. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the ability of bankers to accurately forecast farm income and expenditures of farmers in the Ninth Federal Reserve District. There have been studies to assess the accuracy of …
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Gambling on a bail-out : regulation, moral hazard and time inconsistencies in the international banking system
… thesis is to analyze the international banking system from a broad perspective. The intent is to study the legal and regulatory framework in modern banking in order to gain insights into key debates that are currently taking place amongst policy planners on an optimum banking structure. The …
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
… possibility the settler colonial creation of the reserve system and the production of an isolated Indigenous population that faces chronically high rates of nutrition-related diseases.
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A.P. Giannini, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, and the Changing Landscape of American Banking
… elucidated the shortcomings of the banking system and its control by Wall Street. The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 was insufficient to correct flaws in the banking system until the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935. A.P. Giannini, the American-Italian founder of the Bank of …
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Insect Conservation Within the Severely Fragmented Eastern Tallgrass Prairie Landscape
… the severely fragmented tallgrass prairie ecosystem. In one study, insects were surveyed within natural area remnants and developed habitats in an attempt to gauge levels of remnant-dependence for 17 prairie and savanna-inhabiting taxa. In a second study, plant and insect data were used to …
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Red and Black Blood: Teaching the Logic of the Canadian Settler State
… Act is represented geographically through the reserve system, which works within the Indian Act to replace indigenous sovereignty and nationhood with Indian Bands, while the temporality of the Multiculturalism Act is represented geographically through the image of Canada as a cultural mosaic, …
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