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Aiyar, Shekhar S. and Calomiris, Charles W. and Wieladek, Tomasz, How Does Credit Supply Respond to Monetary Policy and Bank Minimum Capital Requirements? (September 5, 2014). Bank of England Working Paper No. 508. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2494187 “We use data on UK banks’ minimum capital requirements to study the interaction of monetary policy and …
“The Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new, interactive, online tool designed to provide the latest data on the U.S. government’s global health budget in an easy-to-access form. The U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker lets users follow the budget from the President’s budget request through the appropriations process in Congress, as well as see trends over time. Data …
Michael Carl Tschantz, Sadia Afroz, Vern Paxson, J. D. Tygar (Submitted on 10 Sep 2014) “We argue that the evaluation of censorship evasion tools should depend upon economic models of censorship. We illustrate our position with a simple model of the costs of censorship. We show how this model makes suggestions for how to evade censorship. In particular, from …
Follow up to Defense Department military equipment distributed free to states around the country, via Dan Bauman, Chronicle of Higher Education: “At least 117 colleges have acquired equipment from the department through a federal program, known as the 1033 program, that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country, according to records The Chronicle received after filing Freedom of Information …
