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Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain, by Jennifer Howard Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating …
The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame? Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36 “Abstract: A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of the government sponsored enterprises, may have caused the subprime crisis. The conclusions drawn in this literature, for …
Short-Term Energy Outlook, September 7, 2011 Release: “EIA’s economic growth assumptions have been lowered substantially compared with last month’s Outlook. This forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 1.5 percent this year and 1.9 percent next year compared with 2.4 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, in the previous Outlook. World oil-consumption-weighted …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club of Minnesota Luncheon, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 8, 2011 – The U.S. Economic Outlook: “Notably, the housing sector has been a significant driver of recovery from most recessions in the United States since World War II, but this time–with an overhang of distressed and foreclosed properties, tight …
