Monetary policy and risk taking. Bruegel Working Paper 2010/00, February 2010

We assess, through VAR evidence, the effects of monetary policy on banks’ risk exposure and find the presence of a risk-taking channel. A model combining fragile banks prone to risk mis-incentives and credit constrained firms, whose collateral fluctuations generate a balance sheet channel, is used to rationalize the evidence. A monetary expansion increases bank leverage. With two consequences: on the one side this exacerbates risk exposure; on the other, the risk spiral depresses output, therefore dampening the conventional amplification effect of the financial accelerator. Keywords: monetary policy, bank behavior, leverage, financial accelerator.

Trends in incidences and risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and other liver events in HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infected individuals from 2001 to 2014: a multi-cohort study.

BACKGROUND  While liver-related deaths in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infected individuals have declined over the last decade, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may have increased. We described the epidemiology of HCC and other liver events in a multi-cohort collaboration of HIV/HCV co-infected individuals. METHODS  We studied all HCV antibody-positive adults with HIV in the EuroSIDA Study, the Southern Alberta Clinic Cohort, the Canadian Co-infection Cohort, and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study from 2001 to 2014. We calculated the incidence of HCC and other liver events (defined as liver-related deaths or decompensations, excluding HCC) and used Poisson regression to estimate incidence rate ratios. RESULTS  Our study comprised 7,229 HIV/HCV co-infected individuals (68% male, 90% white). During follow-up, 72 cases of HCC and 375 other liver events occurred, yielding incidence rates of 1.6 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.3, 2.0) and 8.6 (95% CI: 7.8, 9.5) cases per 1,000 person-years of follow-up, respectively. The rate of HCC increased 11% per calendar year (95% CI: 4%, 19%) and decreased 4% for other liver events (95% CI: 2%, 7%), but only the latter remained statistically significant after adjustment for potential confounders. High age, cirrhosis, and low current CD4 cell count were associated with a higher incidence of both HCC and other liver events. CONCLUSIONS  In HIV/HCV co-infected individuals, the crude incidence of HCC increased from 2001 to 2014, while other liver events declined. Individuals with cirrhosis or low current CD4 cell count are at highest risk of developing HCC or other liver events.

Deepwater ports approach/exit hazard and risk assessment /

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The American cottage cookery-book, or, Housekeeping made easy, pleasant and economical in all its departments : the result of many years' practical experience and observation, and designed as a reliable aid to those who study economy of time and materials /

Includes sections on food preparation, cooking for the sick, and household hints; some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Alamode beef, Cold slaw, Little plum cakes that will keep a year, Currant jelly.

Automotive manufacturers' cost/revenue, financial and risk analysis: projected impact of automobile manufacturing on the plastics industry. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Police time and cost associated with administrative license revocation (ALR).

Mode of access: Internet.

Commercial policy in war time and after; a study of the application of democratic ideas to international commercial relations,

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

Combinational circuit synthesis with time and component bo[u]nds /

Bibliography: p. 45.

Canned fish and shellfish preferences of household consumers, 1956 : results of a national survey conducted under contract to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Chiefly tables.

Victor Lawson; his time and his work,

Mode of access: Internet.

Interests in relation to intelligence: a study of the relation of the mental status of school children to their motivation as shown in the choices of school plans and occupational preferences,

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of James, Duke of Ormond : containing an account of the most remarkable affairs of his time, and particularly of Ireland under his government ; with appendix and a collection of letters, serving to verify the most material facts in the said history /

Previous ed. publ. under title: An history of the life of James, Duke of Ormond.

The national measurement system for time and frequency /

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