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Global Financial Crisis, Financial Contagion, and Emerging Markets. F. Gulcin Ozkan, D. Filiz Unsal. IMF Working Paper No. 12/293. December 13, 2012. “The recent global financial crisis was the first in recent history that was triggered by problems in the financial system of the mature economies. Existing work on financial crisis in emerging market countries, …
“What role should online intermediaries play in policing the content and conduct of their users? What if any legal responsibility should they bear when users post or transmit material that may be unlawful? These are familiar questions to advocates for Internet openness and crucial issues for Internet policy. Today, CDT is releasing an expanded and …
Military Spouse Employment Programs – DOD Can Improve Guidance and Performance Monitoring, GAO-13-60, Dec 13, 2012 Electronic Health Records – Number and Characteristics of Providers Awarded Medicaid Incentive Payments for 2011, GAO-13-146R, Dec 13, 2012
“The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is the largest ever systematic effort to describe the global distribution and causes of a wide array of major diseases, injuries, and health risk factors. The results show that infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition now cause fewer deaths and less illness than they …
Key Dimensions and Processes in the U.S. Credit Reporting System: A review of how the nations largest credit bureaus manage consumer data, December 13, 2012 “This paper describes the credit reporting infrastructure at the three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies (NCRAs) Equifax Information Services LLC (Equifax), TransUnion LLC (TransUnion), and Experian Information Solutions Inc. …
[December 12, 2012] “the European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing the June-2012 Consolidated Banking Data (CBD), a data set that provides various statistics about the EU banking system on consolidated basis. It includes statistics on both individual EU Member States and the EU as a whole. It refers to 430 banking groups together with 4,216 …
Monthly Bulletin: “Based on its regular economic and monetary analyses, the Governing Council decided at its meeting on 6 December to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged. Owing to high energy prices and increases in indirect taxes in some euro area countries, HICP inflation rates have been elevated for some time. More recently they …
The financial cycle and macroeconomics: What have we learnt? by Claudio Borio. Working Papers No 395, December 2012 “It is high time we rediscovered the role of the financial cycle in macroeconomics. In the environment that has prevailed for at least three decades now, it is not possible to understand business fluctuations and the corresponding …
Systematic monetary policy and the forward premium puzzle, by Demosthenes N. Tambakis and Nikola Tarashev. Working Papers No 396, December 2012 “Is systematic monetary policy a driver of the forward premium puzzle, i.e. the tendency of high interest-rate currencies to appreciate, thus strongly violating Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP)? We address this question by studying a …
CRS – Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945 (Updated), Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance. December 12, 2012 “Income tax rates are at the center of many recent policy debates over taxes. Some policymakers argue that raising tax rates, especially on higher income taxpayers, to increase …
ECB Statistics Pocket Book December 2012: “Online access to data and metadata – “For series included in the Statistics Pocket Book, methodologies and descriptions of metadata are available in the ECBs Statistical Data Warehouse (SDW), at http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu. The latest available data for the series published in the Pocket Book are presented in a …
