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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress, September 5, 2012 “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed regional free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated among the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. U.S. negotiators and others describe and envision the TPP as a comprehensive and high-standard …
Bike Sharing in the United States: State of the Practice and Guide to Implementation, September 2012 “With the introduction of new and more advanced bike sharing programs, and the continued interest and political support for them throughout many U.S. cities, it is important to provide an objective analysis of bike share programs, and to document …
Gallup – “Twenty-seven percent of the world’s adults were employed full time for an employer in 2011, according to Gallup’s new “Payroll to Population” metric. This new measure estimates the percentage of the entire 15 and older population — not just those currently in the workforce — who are employed full time for an employer …
Fogli, Alessandra, Hill, Enoch and Perri, Fabrizio, The Geography of the Great Recession (September 2012). Chapter in NBER Book NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012, Francesco Giavazzi and Kenneth West, organizers. Available at SSRN.
Alexis Madrigal – “Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you’re drawing from when you ask Google …
News release:”Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 96,000 in August, and the unemployment rate edged down to 8.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in food services and drinking places, in professional and technical services, and in health care. Household Survey Data – The unemployment rate edged down in August …
Financial Contagion in the Era of Globalised Banking, OECD Economics Department, Policy Notes, No. 14, June 2012. “One factor that made the recent financial crisis so deep and widespread is the extent and nature of international banking integration, which led to unprecedented transmission of financial instability. Financial contagion through international banking occurs e.g. when banks …
