2008 GSP Annual Review: Responses in Support of Petition to Designate HTSUS 2009.41.20 and 2009.49.20 as Eligible Articles under the Generalized System of Preferences and in Support of Request for Competitive Need Limit Waiver for Imports from the Philippines, Before the Trade Policy Staff Committee, Office of the United States Trade Representative

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Innovation and Competition in Canadian Equity Markets

Innovations in communications and information technology and the related globalization of financial markets have created the potential for important changes to the structure of Canadian equity markets. Established marketplaces can now compete more effectively on an inter-regional and international basis. At the same time, reduced costs have lowered the barriers to entry faced by new competitors known as alternative trading systems (ATSs). In response to this heightened competition, established Canadian stock exchanges have taken measures to improve market quality. While regulators see innovation as positive for the development of Canadian markets, there is some concern that market liquidity may be fragmented in the short run. The Canadian Securities Administrators have proposed a framework that attempts to address this issue and that would allow ATSs to compete with traditional exchanges for the first time. The authors provide an overview of the Canadian equity market and its structure, focusing on these recent developments.

The Effects of Economic News on Bond Market Liquidity

The authors contrast the impact of two sources of information flow on the volatility of prices, trading activity, and liquidity in the brokered interdealer market for Government of Canada bonds. Liquidity varies with the amount of asymmetric information in the market, and order flow plays a central role in the processing of information. The authors find a two-stage adjustment process in the period before and after a scheduled 8:30 a.m. macroeconomic news announcement that is similar to the adjustment process documented by Fleming and Remolona (1999) for the U.S. Treasury market. They contrast these dynamics with the adjustment that occurs around a Government of Canada bond auction. Results are somewhat inconsistent with the patterns observed around macroeconomic news events, but are explained by theory.Financial markets; Market structure and pricing; Debt management

Re-theorizing the “Structure–Agency” Relationship: Figurational Theory, Organizational Change and the Gaelic Athletic Association

This article illustrates how the figurational sociology associated with Norbert Elias provides an alternative theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between, ‘individualorganization- society’ and organizational change, and in so doing transverses what is conceived as a false dichotomy between structure and agency. Through an historical case study of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, the ‘individual-organization-society’ relationship is conceptualized as overlapping figurations and organizational change is explained as figurational dynamics—the shifting social interdependencies between the individuals and groups comprising an organization, between that organization and other organizations, between social groups on a higher level of integration and competition. In tandem with this, the article illustrates how changes in the sources of power and identity are connected with these figurational dynamics

An Empirical Analysis of Liquidity and Order Flow in the Brokered Interdealer Market for Government of Canada Bonds

The authors empirically measure Canadian bond market liquidity using a number of indicators proposed in the literature and detail, for the first time, price and trade dynamics in the Government of Canada secondary bond market. They find, consistent with Inoue (1999), that the Canadian brokered interdealer fixed-income market is relatively liquid for its size. Liquidity measures are analyzed relative to each other and across securities, and intraday patterns are identified. The authors' results show that trading activity is positively correlated with price volatility, and that signed order flow is significant in explaining contemporaneous high-frequency price movements. They find evidence that trading activity is positively related to liquidity measures in some markets, which suggests that indicators such as trade frequency and trading volume, despite certain drawbacks, can be seen as useful proxies for liquidity. The authors also document Canadian participants' prevalent use of an order expansion protocol, whereby order size can be negotiated upward once a trade has been initiated; although Boni and Leach (2002) identify this practice as consistent with a market where there is relatively strong concern regarding information asymmetry, the authors observe no consistent link between the frequency of its use and observations of trading activity, market liquidity, or price volatility.Financial markets; Market structure and pricing

Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Towards Same-Sex Couples Adopting

This quasi-experimental design study examines attitudes of 87 undergraduate students in a social science major, towards same-sex couples. The participants were given one of two vignettes describing a couple interested in adopting a 5-year-old child. The vignettes were identical except that the couples orientation was depicted as either a gay male couple or a heterosexual couple. Using t-tests and an ANOVA test for difference in attitude scores, emotional stability of the parents, quality of parenting, whether the participant felt the child would experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, and whether the parents would raise the child with morals and values, with a level of .05, no difference was found between the two groups

Auditor\u27s role: The philosophy and psychology of independence and objectivity

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Kemampuan Menyimak Berita Dengan Menggunakan Media Audio Visual Pada Siswa Kelas VII SMPN Satu Atap Ko’a Wena Tahun Ajaran 2021/2022

Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah bagaimanakah kemampuan menyimak berita dengan menggunakan media audio visual pada siswa kelas VII SMPN Satu Atap Ko’a Wena  Tahun Ajaran 2021/2022. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan mendeskripsikan kemampuan menyimak berita dengan menggunakan media audio visual pada siswa kelas VII SMPN Satu Atap Ko’a WenaTahun Ajaran 2021/2022. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif, dan metode yang digunakan adalah metode tes tertulis. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori strategi belajar mengajar dan teori evaluasi hasil belajar. Teknik penyajian data dalam penelitian ini adalah teknik formal karena data disajikan berupa angka-angka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa siswa dapat menyimak berita menggunakan media audio visual mencapai nilai rata-rata 78,17% dari 52 siswa. Dari rata-rata tersebut siswa yang tuntas sebanyak 43 orang dengan presentase 82,69% dan siswa yang tidak tuntas sebanyak  9 orang dengan presentase  17,30%

Resistance of calves to gastrointestinal parasites

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