We investigate the interdependence of the default risk of several Eurozone countries (France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain) and their domestic banks during the period June 2007 May 2010, using daily credit default swaps (CDS). Bank bailout programs changed the composition of both banks’ and sovereign balance sheets and, moreover, affected the linkage between the default...

A series of papers by Gross (6, 7, 10) has de scribed the induction of leukemia, parotid gland tumors, and sarcomas in aging C3H, C57BR/cd, and C57BL mice which received cell-free leukemic extracts or filtrates when newborn. The inocula tion materials were obtained chiefly from AK-n1 and C58 mice which are characterized by a very high (80-90 per cent) incidence of spontaneous leukemia. In contr...

RNase HI from the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus tokodaii (Sto-RNase HI) is stabilized by its C-terminal residues. In this work, the stabilization effect of the Sto-RNase HI C-terminal residues was investigated in detail by thermodynamic measurements of the stability of variants lacking the disulfide bond (C58/145A), or the six C-terminal residues (ΔC6) and by structural analysis of ΔC6. The resul...

Carbon permits and associated …nancial derivatives are increasingly traded in …nancial markets. E¢ ciently functioning carbon markets are necessary if reductions in CO2 emissions are to be achieved in a cost-e¤ective manner. With these considerations in mind, this paper adds to the growing literature which seeks to understand the operations of the carbon markets. We jointly model the spot and f...