Bond, 1728/9 January 30

Handwritten bond of Andrew Bordman to John Hastings.

Bond, 1733 November 27

Bond of Daniel Barrett and Thomas Kidder to Andrew Bordman.

Bond, Robert, 2 autographed letters signed to John Winthrop; East Hampton, Conn., 1651 March 8-March 10

Correspondence regarding advice Winthrop had given to Bond's family, and requesting he remit instructions for treating an illness of a neighbor's children.

Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging cultural products across online platforms

La plupart des études sur l'étiquetage social porte sur une plateforme ou un type de plateforme précis, ce qui limite la portée de leurs résultats. Cette étude explore et compare les pratiques d'étiquetage social de quatre plateformes--Goodreads, un catalogue de bibliothèque publique, Last.fm et WordPress--au moyen d'une étude de cas multiples et emboîtés. Le contenu généré par les utilisateurs, principalement les étiquettes ou "tags", lié au livre Casino royale de Ian Fleming ou à ses produits dérivés ou associés (p. ex. : chanson thème, film, billet de blogue) a été analysé avec une approche qualitative et inductive. L'analyse révèle que le contenu généré par les utilisateurs des quatre plateformes mettait l'emphase sur les événements historiques associés au livre tout en fournissant de nombreux points d'accès plus subjectifs : recommandation, ton, ambiance, opinion, expérience de lecture, d'écoute ou de visionnement. On remarque par ailleurs des différences entre les étiquettes associées au livre et à ses produits dérivés : alors que le contenu généré par les utilisateurs en lien avec le produit d'origine dans les catalogues de bibliothèques et dans Goodreads portait essentiellement sur le livre, les étiquettes attribuées par les utilisateurs aux produits dérivés dans Last.fm (la chanson thème du film) et WordPress (des billets de blogues sur le livre ou le film) renvoyaient souvent à d'autres produits culturels, incluant des livres, de la musique et des films.

Disappearing government bond spreads in the eurozone - Back to normal? CEPS Working Document No. 396, May 2014

Since the announcement of the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, in 2012, the government bond spreads began a strong decline. This paper finds that most of this decline is due to the positive market sentiments that the OMT programme has triggered and is not related to underlying fundamentals, such as the debt-to-GDP ratios or the external debt position that have continued to increase in most countries. The authors even argue that the market’s euphoria may have gone too far in taking into account the same market fundamentals. They conclude with some thoughts about the future governance of the OMT programme.

The Determinants of Country Risk in Eastern European Countries. Evidence from Sovereign Bond Spreads. Bruges European Economic Research (BEER) Papers 8/November 2006

The paper studies country risk in two Central and Eastern European countries - Bulgaria and Poland. The long run relationship between the yield differential (spread) of Eastern European national bonds (denominated in US dollars) over a US Treasury bond on one the hand and the country’s fundamentals as well as an US interest rate on the other hand, is examined. The cointegrated VAR model is used. First, the yield differentials are analyzed on a country by country basis to extract stochastic trends which are common for all bonds in a given country. Thereafter, the risk is disentangled into country and higher level risk. This paper is among the first ones which use time series data to study the evidence from sovereign bond spreads in Eastern Europe.

A macro-financial analysis of the euro area sovereign bond market. National Bank of Belgium Working Paper No. 259, June 2014

We estimate the 'fundamental' component of euro area sovereign bond yield spreads, i.e. the part of bond spreads that can be justified by country-specific economic factors, euro area economic fundamentals, and international influences. The yield spread decomposition is achieved using a multi-market, no-arbitrage affine term structure model with a unique pricing kernel. More specifically, we use the canonical representation proposed by Joslin, Singleton, and Zhu (2011) and introduce next to standard spanned factors a set of unspanned macro factors, as in Joslin, Priebsch, and Singleton (2013). The model is applied to yield curve data from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain over the period 2005-2013. Overall, our results show that economic fundamentals are the dominant drivers behind sovereign bond spreads. Nevertheless, shocks unrelated to the fundamental component of the spread have played an important role in the dynamics of bond spreads since the intensification of the sovereign debt crisis in the summer of 2011

The Impact of the ECB’s Asset Purchase Programmes on Sovereign Bond Spreads in the Euro Area. Bruges European Economic Research Papers 35/2015

This paper estimates the immediate impact of the European Central Bank’s asset purchase programmes on sovereign bond spreads in the euro area between 2008 and 2015 using a country-by-country GARCH model. The baseline estimates are rigorously diagnosed for misspecification and subjected to a wide range of sensitivity tests. Among others, changes in the dependent variable, the independent variables and the number of (G)ARCH terms are tested. Moreover, the model is applied to subsamples and dynamic conditional correlations are analyzed to estimate the effects of the asset purchases on the contagion of spread movements. Generally, it is found that the asset purchase programmes triggered an reduction of sovereign bond spreads. More specifically, the Securities Markets Programme (SMP) had the most significant immediate effects on sovereign bond spreads across the euro area. The announcements related to the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme also yielded substantial spread compression in the periphery. In contrast to that, the most recent Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) announced in January 2015 and implemented since March 2015 had no significant immediate effects on sovereign bond spreads, except for Irish spreads. Hence, immediate effects seem to be dependent upon the size of the programme, the extent to which it targets distressed sovereigns and the way in which it is communicated.

A Comprehensive Discussion of HMBC Pulse Sequences: 4. Establishing Two-Bond Correlations from HMBC and Related Experiments

The utility of the HMBC experiment for structure elucidation is unquestionable, but the nature of the coupling pathways leading to correlations in an HMBC experiment creates the potential for misinterpretation. This misinterpretation potential is intimately linked to the size of the long-range heteronuclear couplings involved, and may become troublesome in those cases of a particularly strong 2JCH correlation that might be mistaken for a 3JCH correlation or a 4JCH correlation of appreciable strength that could be mistaken for a weaker 3JCH correlation. To address these potential avenues of confusion, work from several laboratories has been focused on the development of what might be considered “coupling pathway edited” long-range heteronuclear correlation experiments that are derived from or related to the HMBC experiment. The first example of an effort to address the problems associated with correlation path length was seen in the heteronucleus-detected XCORFE experiment described by Reynolds and co-workers that predated the development of the HMBC experiment. Proton-detected analogs of the HMBC experiment intended to differentiate 2JCH correlations from nJCH correlations where n = 3, 4, include the 2J,3J-HMBC, HMBC-RELAY, H2BC, edited-HMBC, and HAT H2BC experiments. The principles underlying the critical components of each of these experiments are discussed and experimental verification of the results that can be obtained using model compounds are shown. This contribution concludes with a brief discussion of the 1,1-ADEQUATE experiments that provide an alternative means of identifying adjacent protonated and non-protonated carbon correlations by exploiting 1JCC correlations at natural abundance.

Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging cultural products across online platforms

La plupart des études sur l'étiquetage social porte sur une plateforme ou un type de plateforme précis, ce qui limite la portée de leurs résultats. Cette étude explore et compare les pratiques d'étiquetage social de quatre plateformes--Goodreads, un catalogue de bibliothèque publique, Last.fm et WordPress--au moyen d'une étude de cas multiples et emboîtés. Le contenu généré par les utilisateurs, principalement les étiquettes ou "tags", lié au livre Casino royale de Ian Fleming ou à ses produits dérivés ou associés (p. ex. : chanson thème, film, billet de blogue) a été analysé avec une approche qualitative et inductive. L'analyse révèle que le contenu généré par les utilisateurs des quatre plateformes mettait l'emphase sur les événements historiques associés au livre tout en fournissant de nombreux points d'accès plus subjectifs : recommandation, ton, ambiance, opinion, expérience de lecture, d'écoute ou de visionnement. On remarque par ailleurs des différences entre les étiquettes associées au livre et à ses produits dérivés : alors que le contenu généré par les utilisateurs en lien avec le produit d'origine dans les catalogues de bibliothèques et dans Goodreads portait essentiellement sur le livre, les étiquettes attribuées par les utilisateurs aux produits dérivés dans Last.fm (la chanson thème du film) et WordPress (des billets de blogues sur le livre ou le film) renvoyaient souvent à d'autres produits culturels, incluant des livres, de la musique et des films.

In-bond industry : legal and administrative resolutions /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sacramento and San Joaquin drainage district refunding act, Reclamation board act and Reclamation board bond act of the state of California, as in effect on and after July 29, 1927, with all amendments to and including those of 1927.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bond financing and transportation infrastructure: exploring concepts and roles.

Mode of access: Internet.

A bond of sympathy /

"Published in America under the title of Silver bells."

Bonds and the bond market /

Includes index.