The building will also have a landscaped terrace, 10-foot ceilings and fewer columns than most buildings. "That's a big deal," said Ben Friedland, a senior vice-president at CB Richard Ellis, who has ...a number of hedge fund clients. Hedge funds "want a line of sight between the head traders and the teams out on the floor," he said. To attract tenants, both 510 Madison and 545 Madison are seeking certification as "green" buildings. "For some people, that matters a lot," Mr. Friedland said. Mr. Macklowe said "bumps in business" were nothing out of the ordinary. Besides, he said, "hedge funds are designed to make money in good time and bad times."
Once Upon a Time in a Different World , a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s ...literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse. Looking at a variety of topics, including the moralities of heterosexism, the veneration of literacy, and the "politics of hair," Neal A. Lester provides a scholarly and accessible compilation of essays that will serve as an invaluable resource for parents, students, and educators.
The much-needed reexamination of African American children’s texts follows an engaging call-and-response format, allowing for a lively and illuminating discussion between its primary author and a diverse group of contributors; including educators, scholars, students, parents, and critics. In addition to these distinct dialogues, the book features an enlightening generational conversation between Lester and his teenage daughter as they review the same novels. With critical assessments of Toni and Slade Morrison’s The Big Box and The Book of Mean People , bell hooks’ Happy to Be Nappy , and Anne Schraff’s Until We Meet Again , among many other works, these provocative and fresh essays yield a wealth of perspectives on the intersections of identity formations in childhood and adulthood.
Neal A. Lester is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Arizona State University; he specializes in African American literary and cultural studies. He is the author of Ntozake Shange: A Critical Study of the Plays (1995) and Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (1999), and he has published on and taught courses in African American children's literature, African American drama, African American folklore, African American images in American cinema, and black/white interracial intimacies in American culture.
Series Editor's Foreword, Jack Zipes. Foreword, C.W. Sullivan III. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Moistening the Desert Landscapes. Part 1: A "Call-and-Response" Conversation 1. (Un)Happily Ever After: Fairy Tale Morals, Moralities, and Heterosexism in Children's Texts. Response: Stacy Augustine. 2. "Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair": Readin', Writin', and Parental (Il)literacy in African American Children's Books. Response: Olga Idriss Davis. 3. "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones": Airbrushing and the Ugliest of Ugly in African American Children's Picture Books. Response: Joseph L. Graves, Jr. 4. Nappy Edges and Goldy Locks: African American Daughters and the Politics of Hair. Response: Vincenza Mangiolino. 5. Roots That Go Beyond Big Hair and a Bad Hair Day: Nappy Hair Pieces. Response: C. A. Hammons. 6. Don't Condemn White Teacher Over Nappy Hair (An Editorial) . Response: Kim-Curry Evans. 7. Angels of Color: Divinely Inspired or Socially Constructed? Response: ben clark. 8. "Do You See What I See? Do You Hear What I Hear?": Becoming Better Adults through Toni Morrison's The Big Box and The Book of Mean People. Response: Nathan Stamey Winesett. Part 2. Dialoguing Reviews 9. Reviews of Anne Schraff's Lost and Found 10. Reviews of Anne Schraff's A Matter of Trust 11. Reviews of Anne Schraff's Until We Meet Again 12. Review of Eliza A. Comodromo's Teacher's Guide to the Bluford Series 13. Review of Walter Dean Myer's The Beast 14. Review of Angela Johnson's The First Part Last 15. Review of Kelly McWilliams's Doormat 16. Response to "Dialoguing Reviews": Parent's, It's 10:00--Do You Know What Your Children Are Reading, James Blasingame, Jr. Part 3. Extending Discourses 17. Unlocking the Beauty of Hair: A Review of Joyce Carol Thomas's Crowning Glory 18. Nappy Happy: A Review of bell hooks's Happy to Be Nappy 19. "Shake it to the One You Love the Best": A Review of Juba This & Juba That 20. Response to "Extending Discourses," Elizabeth McNeil Notes About the Contributors Works Cited Index
Purpose
The purpose of this study to investigate the sensitivity of stability and insolvency of the Tunisian financial banking with respect to banks’ specific factors as well as to the macroeconomic ...conditions (including gross domestic product growth, inflation rate, foreign direct investment FDI, EXRate, INT and unemp) during 2005–2014 period covering 2011 Tunisian revolution.
Design/methodology/approach
The variables of interest the financial institution stability which is measured by Z-score and solvency indicators that are determined by the capital adequacy ratio (CAP) and deposits to assets (DTA). This study seeks to assess the linkages among them (causality, magnitude and duration) that may shed some light on the micro-financial vulnerabilities that are associated with the macroeconomic environment and the monetary authority policy. To do so, this study considers two models: a panel vector autoregressif-X model for the tri-variate vector (Z-score, DTA, CAP) estimated by a system generalized method of moments after a forward mean-differencing and a dynamic seemingly unrelated regression model for the bi-variate vector (Z-score, DTA) estimated by 3LS.
Findings
Results say that there is a uni-directional contemporaneous negative relationship from stability to insolvency. Stability evolution can be attributed to both macroeconomic conditions and banks’ specific factors, whereas insolvency is attributed only to banks’ specific factors. Stability was found to increase when growth rate and FDI rise, whereas instability increases when interest rate rises, exchange rate depreciates and if inflation is high. Stability increases also when CAP increases. However, compared to conventional banks (CBs), Islamic banks (IBs) are found to be more solvent than CBs, and more stable post 2011 Tunisian revolution.
Practical implications
As fluctuation in inflation and exchange rate could lead to high interest rates and hence decreases the stability of the financial sectors, Tunisian monetary authority is advised to practice low interest rate policy.
Originality/value
This paper attends not only to compare the response of stability and insolvency to the effect of exogenous variables (macroeconomic and financial factors) in Tunisian banks but also to detect short run and long run feedback effects between dependent variables as well as to investigate whether IBs and CBs present evident heterogeneity of stability and insolvency evolution in relation to 2011 Tunisian revolution.
