Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Aliya Sternstein reporting in NextGov: “The Defense authorization bill approved by Congress last week would require contractors to tell the Pentagon about penetrations of company-owned networks that handle military data. If President Obama signs the legislation into law, it would make permanent part of a Pentagon test program under which participating contractors report computer breaches …
Bank Debt in Europe Are Funding Models Broken, Vanessa Le Lesle, December 20, 2012. IMF Working Paper. “The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in Europe. We argue …
Generosity and Political Preferences, Christopher T. Dawes, Magnus Johannesson, Erik Lindqvist, Peter Loewen, Robert Östling, Marianne Bonde and Frida Priks. Research Institute of Financial Economics, IFN Working Paper No. 941, 2012. “We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator …
Optimal Control of Global Warming, Gary Erickson, University of Washington – Michael G. Foster School of Business. December 26, 2012. Available at SSRN “An optimal control model of global warming is presented and analyzed. The model has two state variables, representing the anthropogenic concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the temperature increase due …
“Transportation Research Board second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C04 has released a prepublication, non-edited draft version of a report titled Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect Travel Demand that synthesizes travel demand models that predict how travelers behavior changes in response to changes in traffic congestion and …
Follow up to previous postings on fracking: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today provided an update on its ongoing national study currently underway to better understand any potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. Results of the study, which Congress requested EPA to complete, are expected to be released in a draft …
Bycatch of Marine Mammals in U.S. and Global Fisheries, Andrew J. Read, ∗ Phebe Drinker∗ and Simon Northridge ; ∗Duke University Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Beaufort, NC 28516, U.S.A. Sea Mammal Research Unit, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, United Kingdom “Fisheries bycatch …
Royal Canadian Mounted Police: “There are almost 1.9 million firearms licence holders in Canada. While the vast majority of firearm owners are responsible and comply with the law, over 22,000 firearms licences have been refused or revoked by the CFP for public safety reasons. Most revocations are due to court orders following a conviction. The …
“On May 23, 2012, the Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding convened a workshop at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to investigate data sharing as a means of improving coordination among US government and nongovernment stakeholders involved in peacebuilding and conflict management activities. Using Data Sharing to Improve Coordination in Peacebuilding: Report of …
Agarwal, Sumit, Benmelech, Effi, Bergman, Nittai and Seru, Amit. Did the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Lead to Risky Lending? (October 1, 2012). Available at SSRN “Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect …
