Critics note that, because the target applies to
aggregate levels of spending, individual physicians have a micro ‐ level incentive to increase the number of services they perform in order to overcome a lower per ‐ service payment under the SGR.
Better it would be if the Fed, which is the main blower of bubbles through easy monetary policy, would pull back on policy when
aggregate levels of debt in the economy get above 200 % of GDP, or, would allow us to go through recessions where there is significant pain, and liquidation of bad investments.
That is, school performance declines sharply as schools»
aggregate levels of student poverty increase, if and when states use combinations of growth and proficiency to evaluate schools.
The boom in for - profit college enrollment during the Great Recession has also served to boost
aggregate levels of student debt and student loan defaults.
With the bids lodged, the Bank then determines which of the bids it is willing to accept, to ensure that
the aggregate level of exchange settlement balances is at the level we feel will ensure that the cash rate remains at the target rate.
The Federal Reserve states that open market operations regulate «
the aggregate level of balances available in the banking system,» thereby keeping the effective Federal Funds Rate close to a target level.
The proposed ERF also focuses on identifying levels of effort for different countries without clearly specifying the individual or
aggregate level of emission reductions for the developed countries.
Not exact matches
Yet on an
aggregate level, business fixed investment hasn't been pulling its weight, contributing 1.4 % to annual real GDP growth in 2011, but only 0.5 % in 2012, according to a recent Bank
of Canada report.
The use
of Big Data has also become a key driver
of innovation these days, as it involves
aggregating large amounts
of information and helps companies better understand their customers on a macro
level.
No Participant shall receive Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units during any Fiscal Year covering, in the
aggregate, in excess
of 7,000,000 Shares (for this purpose, (A) counting such Shares on a 1 - for - 1 basis and (B) for Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units as to which the number
of Shares earned is dependent on the
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At that time, the main data sources on consumer debt consisted
of loan -
level data sets on specific categories
of loans, such as mortgages, as well as
aggregated data on household sector debt from the Board
of Governors» Flow
of Funds statistical release.
In 2017, Mr. McNeill earned an
aggregate $ 395,803 in variable compensation based on the achievement
of certain target
levels of (i) vehicle deliveries during the third and fourth quarters
of 2017, (ii) operational and financial metrics relating to vehicle service performance and costs during 2017, and (iii) customer satisfaction scores during 2017.
The briefing is intended to highlight the differences in economic outcomes
of individuals, households and regions observed when examining data in more granular detail than at the
aggregate level.
The
aggregate debt - to - income ratio has trended higher, but the ratio
of interest payments to income is not particularly high, given the low
level of interest rates (Graph 8).
At an
aggregate level, the authors calculate that the self - employed in 2009 dodged taxes on at least $ 28 billion
of unreported income, enough to fill 31 %
of the Greek budget deficit that year.
In contrast to claims being made for his technology in the 2014 contract, Kogan himself claimed in a TV interview earlier this month (after the scandal broke) that his predictive modeling was not very accurate at an individual
level — suggesting it would only be useful in
aggregate to, for example, «understand the personality
of New Yorkers».
To be relevant, they need to be linked directly to the Budget
of that year, which sets the overall economic and fiscal context and the
aggregate expending
level for the upcoming fiscal year.
The
aggregate consideration
of approximately $ 1.85 billion will be increased by the amount
of the net proceeds received in connection with the Aruba disposition and will be further adjusted to pay corporate
level taxes.
Aggregate household debt outstanding totaled $ 12.116 trillion in the fourth quarter
of 2015, 2.4 %, $ 289 billion, greater than its
level of one year ago.
They can affect saving and spending behaviour
of firms and households, as well as cash flow, the supply
of credit, asset prices and the exchange rate, all
of which affect the
level of aggregate demand.
At an
aggregate level, it is difficult to discern the effect
of movements in oil prices on the underlying price
level, although some effect on the energy - intensive components
of the CPI, such as transportation and travel, can be found.
Aggregate corporate profitability remains at a high
level, though the growth
of profits as recorded in the national accounts has eased during the past year.
Modernised reporting forms that are collected by APRA on behalf
of the RBA and the Australian Bureau
of Statistics will significantly improve the
aggregate and institution -
level data that are currently collected from ADIs and registered financial corporations (RFCs).
The current valuation
of the S&P 500 is lofty by almost any measure, both for the
aggregate market as well as the median stock: (1) The P / E ratio; (2) the current P / E expansion cycle; (3) EV / Sales; (4) EV / EBITDA; (5) Free Cash Flow yield; (6) Price / Book as well as the ROE and P / B relationship; and compared with the
levels of (6) inflation; (7) nominal 10 - year Treasury yields; and (8) real interest rates.
Banks, in
aggregate, now hold lower
levels of settlement balances than in the settlement regimes which RTGS superseded.
In line with the strength in the domestic non-farm economy, businesses in
aggregate have recorded high
levels of profitability in recent quarters.
If we look at the Bloomberg Barclays Global
Aggregate Financial Yield to Worst (below) we can see that in 2008 yields
of global financials bonds spiked above 8 % and since then, they have gradually retreated to lower
levels.
Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000
level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount
of slowing in employment growth and
aggregate hours worked.
That means you're going to get $ 2,240 taken off your
aggregate tax bill; money that would have gone to various
levels of the government but now stays in your own pocket as a reward for providing for your future.
The National Australia Bank's business survey also points to a continuation
of relatively strong investment intentions at an
aggregate level over the year ahead.
In their September 2015 paper entitled «Frontier and Emerging Government Bond Markets», Vanja Piljak and Laurens Swinkels examine the diversification value
of U.S. dollar - denominated frontier government bonds at
aggregate, regional and country
levels.
Results imply annual
aggregate portfolio -
level trading friction
of 0.9 %.
[1] Also, any net demand for TLTRO II that is not rolled over from TLTRO I will increase the
level of excess liquidity and thus the
aggregate cost
of negative rates for depositors, while potentially reducing the amount
of other refinancing operations, including ECB's MRO currently standing at EUR63bn.
Of the non-financial members of the S&P Global 1200 index, just 32 per cent of companies held 82 per cent of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 200
Of the non-financial members
of the S&P Global 1200 index, just 32 per cent of companies held 82 per cent of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 200
of the S&P Global 1200 index, just 32 per cent
of companies held 82 per cent of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 200
of companies held 82 per cent
of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 200
of the
aggregate cash pile, the highest
level since at least 2000.
As a component
of the partnership with 24Option, Faunus is additionally anticipating to offer a full reporting module which will demonstrate an inside and out table
of results, time span, and unwavering quality
level, and in addition
aggregated graphs for each asset.
This, conceptually, is a measure
of the trend in the general price
level which reflects the broad balance between
aggregate demand and supply in the economy.
The current naughtiness / coal exchange rate provides for one lump
of coal, per month, in which total
aggregate naughtiness exceeds the established acceptable
levels of misanthropic behavior.
The application
of this doctrine to the formation
of higher
levels of order out
of lower
levels results in an
aggregate view
of the higher order.
An entity either is or is not an event, and the same may be said about its being an individual or an
aggregate, a quality at the lower
level of abstractness or at the higher, or the extraordinary individual God.
And yet, even for psychicalism — and this explains the qualification «partly» — psychical concepts are also different from obviously formal ideas because they are categorial, and hence universally applicable, not to entities
of all logical types, but only to «concrete singulars,» which is to say, individuals and events, as distinct both from
aggregates, which are concrete but not singular, and all
levels of qualities, which are merely abstract (141).
In the latter, a higher -
level of actuality has emerged, thereby giving the society as a whole a unity
of experience and activity Kim's position, however, does not allow for such a distinction: «Atoms and their mereological
aggregates exhaust all
of concrete existence....
This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster
of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous
aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity
of democratic capitalism to lift large masses
of people from abject poverty to decent
levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.
The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk
of nature, the mineral
level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by
aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient
of a series
of events leading up to it.
In contrast to the doctrine, ascribed to Whitehead by Leclerc, that «the truly active entities must be identified with the ultimate constituents, those which are not themselves composite» (MN 104), Buchler teaches that there is no
level of complexity which has any sort
of priority, that any one sort
of aggregate is, ontologically, just as good as any other sort.
Leclerc (this volume) has clearly shown that stability
of hierarchically structured wholes (
of a low or high
level of complexity) is incompatible with the understanding
of such wholes as
aggregates (see also Leclerc 1972, Chs.
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Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoreline on the sixth minutes at the second league with a fine strike — his seventh UCL goal
of the season — to
level the
aggregate at 1 - 1.
Having edged ahead on
aggregate through Stefano Padovan's 56th minute penalty, Marco Baroni's side were forced to play an additional 30 minutes after Soma Novothny rose highest in the area to bring the scores
level in the dying stages
of normal time.
It was looking good at halftime after Aduriz had scored to make the
aggregate scores
level, but second half goals from Raul Garcia and Diego Costa set up a repeat
of last years final.
According to law 14.5 from the Carabao Cup's official website: «In the Semi-Final ties, if the
aggregate score is
level at the end
of the second game an extra half - hour shall be played.