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RSS ratesWebsite reveals mobile phone roaming rates
News European mobile operators have launched a new web to give travellers an easy way to determine rates for mobile phone calls when they are abroad. The European Commission has threatened to slash mobile roaming rates by as much as 60 per cent. [10 Jul 2006]
Amerada and Alpha to undercut BT rates
News Energy utility Amerada Hess has teamed up with London-based Alpha Telecom to offer its customers telecoms services that undercut BT's standard rates. The offer will initially be available in the Midlands, extending to other parts of the UK from... [21 Oct 1999]
Achievable Information Rates and the Coding-Spreading Tradeoff in Finite-Sized Synchronous CDMA Systems
White Paper This paper computes achievable rates for synchronous Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) systems and studies the associated coding-spreading tradeoff problem using these results. Random spreading sequences are assumed and the computed achievable... [12 Jan 2006]
Effective Tax Rates: Comparing Annual and Multiyear Measures
White Paper It uses data from a panel of income tax returns to calculate both annual and multiyear (longitudinal) effective tax rates. This paper focuses on the choice of period used to assess the distribution of income and taxes and examines the effect of... [29 Jun 2005]
Effective Federal Tax Rates Under Current Law, 2001 to 2014
White Paper This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of the Ranking Members of the Senate Budget Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the House Budget Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Joint Economic... [29 Jun 2005]
Robust Monetary Policy Rules With Unknown Natural Rates
White Paper This paper examines the performance and robustness properties of alternative monetary policy rules in the presence of structural change that renders the natural rates of interest and unemployment uncertain. [28 Jun 2005]
How Intensive Is Competition in the Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Corporate Rates of Return from Nine Emerging Markets
White Paper Data on corporate rates of return, profit margins, and output-capital ratios reveal that the recent liberalization has been associated with reduced corporate profit margins and improved capital utilization efficiency. [24 Feb 2004]
Klein Data Center Upgrades to SoftCAR+ and Improves Read Rates to 70%+
White Paper Immediately their overtime went to zero and they haven't had to replace any personnel that's left the company, SoftCAR+ has delivered on the promise to increase productivity and lower labor rates. Fast approaching $1B in assets, Klein provides... [24 Feb 2004]
An Empirical Analysis of Bond Recovery Rates: Exploring a Structural View of Default
White Paper A frictionless, structural view of default has the unrealistic implication that recovery rates on bonds, measured at default, should be close to 100 percent. This suggests that standard "frictions" such as default delays, corporate-valuation jumps... [22 Jun 2005]
Contractor rates to be hit by tax changes?
News Rates for IT contractors could be forced up by new Treasury taxation changes due to come into force in April, recruitment bodies and accountants have warned. She also warned that contractors will look to recover the tax lost through having to... [18 Jan 2007]
The Long-Run Relationship Between Real Exchange Rates and Real Interest Rate Differentials: A Panel Study
White Paper This paper empirically examines the long-run relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials over the recent floating exchange rate period, using a panel cointegration method, with data for a set of industrialized... [24 Feb 2004]
The Effect of Housing Government-Sponsored Enterprises on Mortgage Rates
White Paper This paper derives a theoretical model of how jumbo and conforming mortgage rates are determined and how the jumbo-conforming spread might arise. The paper shows that mortgage rates reflect the cost of funding mortgages and that this cost of... [22 Jun 2005]
Brussels slaps Ofcom over mobile rates
News Ofcom has proposed plans to reduce these rates within three years, to between 5.3 pence and 6 pence per minute. Mobile customers are being fleeced for calls to competing networks because Ofcom has not cracked down on charges imposed by the UK's... [28 Nov 2006]
Pay rates for techies skyrocket
News Pay rates for IT workers are skyrocketing at five times the national average as demand for techies outstrips supply. As a result nearly half (49 per cent) of all IT workers are now either seriously looking for a new job, or open to opportunities. [07 Nov 2006]
Understanding the Role of Recovery in Default Risk Models: Empirical Comparisons and Implied Recovery Rates
White Paper This paper presents a framework for modeling defaultable debt under alternative recovery conventions (for a wide class of processes describing recovery rates and default probability). These debt models have the ability to differentiate the impact... [29 Jun 2005]
