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Corporate finance in the euro area – including background material
This report analyses the financial position of non-financial enterprises in the euro area, in particular the amount of external financing, the choice between debt and equity and the composition and maturity structure of debt. It aims at identifying the main features of the euro area, as well as the peculiarities that depend on the country of origin and the sector of activity. Attention is also devoted to assessing whether a country’s institutional eatures are correlated with different financial structures by firms. In light of the particular interest in the access of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to financing, the report also analyses how financing patterns differ across large, medium-sized and small enterprises. Finally, the report discusses the recent trends observed in the corporate finance landscape of the euro area over the past few years. Although it is still too early to pass final judgement, vast structural changes are underway that could have already influenced in a positive way in the availability of external funds for firms. All in all, a comprehensive understanding of corporate finance in the euro area is important from a monetary policy perspective, given its impact on the transmission mechanism and for productivity and economic growth. Moreover, such an understanding is also relevant from a financial stability perspective. A first assessment is now possible eight years into the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), given that sufficient data have been accumulated during this period. This assessment is particularly important as the introduction of the single currency has had significant structural effects on the working of financial markets, increasing their size and liquidity, and fostering cross-border competition. The data available for this report generally cover the period 1995-2005, and the cut-off date for the statistics included is 10 March 2007.
GeMSE: A new Low-Background Facility for Meteorite and Material Screening
We are currently setting up a facility for low-background gamma-ray
spectrometry based on a HPGe detector. It is dedicated to material screening
for the XENON and DARWIN dark matter projects as well as to the
characterization of meteorites. The detector will be installed in a medium
depth (620 m.w.e.) underground laboratory in Switzerland with several
layers of shielding and an active muon-veto. The GeMSE facility will be
operational by fall 2015 with an expected background rate of 250
counts/day (100-2700 keV).Comment: The following article appeared in AIP Conf. Proc. 1672, 120004 (2015)
and may be found at
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/10.1063/1.4928010. The
muon spectrum in Figure 4 (left) was corrected due to a bug in the code.
After correction the muon flux is reduced by a factor of about
Background Material About The University of Maine
A scan of the findings following a $50,000 appropriation of the 102nd Maine Legislature to finance a study of higher education in Maine. The introduction indicates that the final report and the tentative recommendations of the commission were made public in Augusta on October 31, 1966
Background Material on the Colorado Grazing Roundtable
10 pages.
Contains endnotes
PEN as self-vetoing structural Material
Polyethylene Naphtalate (PEN) is a mechanically very favorable polymer.
Earlier it was found that thin foils made from PEN can have very high
radio-purity compared to other commercially available foils. In fact, PEN is
already in use for low background signal transmission applications (cables).
Recently it has been realized that PEN also has favorable scintillating
properties. In combination, this makes PEN a very promising candidate as a
self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments. Components
instrumented with light detectors could be built from PEN. This includes
detector holders, detector containments, signal transmission links, etc. The
current R\&D towards qualification of PEN as a self-vetoing low background
structural material is be presented.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures, contribution to Proceedings of the sixth workshop
on Low Radioactivity Techniques 2017, 23-27 May 2017 Seoul, to be published
at AIP, editor: D. Leonar
Boundaries of Semantic Distraction: Dominance and Lexicality Act at Retrieval
Three experiments investigated memory for semantic information with the goal of determining boundary conditions for the manifestation of semantic auditory distraction. Irrelevant speech disrupted the free recall of semantic category-exemplars to an equal degree regardless of whether the speech coincided with presentation or test phases of the task (Experiment 1) and occurred regardless of whether it comprised random words or coherent sentences (Experiment 2). The effects of background speech were greater when the irrelevant speech was semantically related to the to-be-remembered material, but only when the irrelevant words were high in output dominance (Experiment 3). The implications of these findings in relation to the processing of task material and the processing of background speech is discussed
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