According to some, the commercial bank -an institution that conducts the twin activities of accepting deposits payable on demand and originating loans -is anachronistic and in a state of terminal decline. The evidence, however, is somewhat mixed. This paper takes a different approach to analyzing the future of banks: I examine whether there is an economic rationale for their existing in the pas...

Bilingual dictionaries present special difficulties for the lexicographer who is determined to employ the computer to facilitate his editorial work. In a sense, these dictionaries include evdrything contained in a normal monolingual edition and a good deal more. The singlelanguage definition dictionary is consulted as the authority on orthography, pronunciation and stress-pattern, grammar, leve...

We describe an application of sentence alignment techniques and approximate string matching to the problem of extracting lexicographically interesting word-word pairs from multilingual corpora. Since our interest is in support systems for lexicographers rather than in fully automatic construction of lexicons, we would like to provide access to parameters allowing a tunable trade-oo between prec...

This paper examines the impact of 2008-2009 Global Crisis on banking systems countries around world. Nine variables are examined which include bank concentration, deposits, 5-bank asset liquid liabilities, net loans from non-resident banks, outstanding offshore remittances, and consolidated foreign claims. The looks at how each these system had changed before crisis, during after crisis. result...