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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790922903321

Autore

Petersen Mark A.

Titolo

Basel III liquidity regulation and its implications / / Mark A. Petersen and Janine Mukuddem-Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-60649-873-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Economics collection, , 2163-7628

Disciplina

332.10681

Soggetti

Bank liquidity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Part of: 2014 digital library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. An overview of the Basel capital accords -- 2. Introduction to Basel III liquidity regulation -- 3. Basel III liquidity regulation and bank failure -- 4. Basel III liquidity creation and bank capital -- 5. Basel III liquidity regulation and the economy -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Liquidity involves the degree to which an asset can be bought or sold in the market without affecting its price. The 2007 to 2009 financial crisis was characterized by a decrease in liquidity and necessitated the introduction of Basel III capital and liquidity regulation in 2010. In this book, we apply such regulation on a broad cross-section of countries in order to understand and demonstrate the implications of Basel III.This book summarizes the defining features of the Basel I, II, and III Accords and their perceived shortcomings as well as the role of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in promulgating international banking regulation. In addition, we compare the accords in terms of their ability to determine the capital adequacy of banks and assign risk-weights to assets.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777763403321

Autore

Boone Elizabeth Hill

Titolo

Cycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Hill Boone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007

ISBN

0-292-79528-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Disciplina

529/.32978452

Soggetti

Aztec mythology

Aztec calendar

Manuscripts, Nahuatl - Mexico

Aztecs - Rites and ceremonies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Color Plates -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Containers of the Knowledge of the World -- 2 Time, the Ritual Calendar, and Divination -- 3 The Symbolic Vocabulary of the Almanacs -- 4 Structures of Prophetic Knowledge -- 5 The Almanacs -- 6 Protocols for Ritual -- 7 The Cosmogony in the Codex Borgia -- 8 Provenience -- 9 A Mexican Divinatory System -- Appendix: Content Summaries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the



cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.