Day archives: March 24th, 2013

BIS – Central bank collateral frameworks and practices

“The rules governing the eligibility of collateral and its terms of use are an integral part of how central banks provide liquidity to the financial system. Central banks’ collateral frameworks and practices evolve over time with changing operational needs and financial market developments. But the experience gained from the various episodes of market stress that …

Subjects: Government Documents

Indexing Linked Bibliographic Data for sharing bibliographic metadata

Thomas Johnson, Indexing Linked Bibliographic Data with JSON-LD, BibJSON and Elasticsearch: “Linked Data is a powerful tool for sharing bibliographic metadata. By combining the decentralization of the web with the use of globally defined metadata vocabularies, data from many sources can be treated as a single, aggregated graph. Supporting search across these distributed data sources …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

WSJ – New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence

Frans De Waal: “How do you give a chimp—or an elephant or an octopus or a horse—an IQ test? It may sound like the setup to a joke, but it is actually one of the thorniest questions facing science today. Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

2012 Report of the U.S. Government for Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative

News release: “Over the last 13 years, governments, major multinational corporations, and non-governmental organizations have worked together in the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative, in an effort to make sure that when companies extract resources in some of the most difficult places on earth, they take tangible steps to minimize the risk …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents

OECD releases first comprehensive guidelines on measuring subjective well-being

“Newly released Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being establish the first comprehensive framework for internationally comparable and intellectually robust data on this topic. These Guidelines provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well-being, and will allow statisticians and researchers to better measure how individuals evaluate and experience their lives. The Guidelines, developed …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Dispositif of Risk Management: Reconstructing Risk Management after the Financial Crisis

Huber, Christian and Scheytt, Tobias, The Dispositif of Risk Management: Reconstructing Risk Management after the Financial Crisis (March 23, 2013). Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN “Despite its dubious role during the global financial crisis of 2008, risk management has continued its expansion. This paper addresses the question why risk management, in the face …

Subjects: Legal Research

Brookings Report – What Americans Want From Immigration Reform

Citizens, Values and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform, “authored by PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones, PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox, and PRRI Research Associate Juhem Navarro-Rivera, along with Brookings Senior Fellows E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William Galston, explores general sentiment toward immigrant communities, opinions on the impact that immigrants have on American …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

The Wealth Report 2013: Examining High Net Worth Individuals from around the world

World’s wealthy set to grow by 50% in the next decade: “London and New York remain the top destinations for the world’s ultra-high net worth individuals to live and invest in but Asian cities are fast catching up, says Knight Frank’s seventh annual Wealth Report. Key Findings: The global number of High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs is …

Subjects: Government Documents