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Congressional Data Coalition, Kevin Kosar – “Something rare has occurred—a collection of reports authored by the Congressional Research Service has been published and made freely available to the public. The 400-page volume, titled, “The Evolving Congress,” and was produced in conjunction with CRS’s celebration of its 100th anniversary this year. Congress, not CRS, published it. (Disclaimer: …
Brookings – Why Critics of Transparency Are Wrong, By Gary D. Bass, Danielle Brian and Norman Eisen. “A number of commentators and academics have recently made the attention-grabbing assertion that excessive openness and transparency are one of the causes of our country’s governance woes. For example, The Atlantic’s David Frum claims that transparency and accountability reforms in government “have weakened …
“HelpAge International’s Global AgeWatch Index ranks countries by how well their ageing populations are faring. It is based on four domains that are key enablers of older people’s wellbeing: income, health, capability and enabling environment…The world is ageing fast. By 2030, there will be more people over 60 than under 10. Already there are more …
Smith, James L., The Option to Hold a Petroleum Lease by Production: A User’s Guide to the Shale Gas Drilling Boom (November 28, 2014). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2531997 “Most oil and gas leases allow the operator to extend possession for an indefinite period by establishing production in paying quantities. We show how this …
CRS – Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of Female-Headed Families with Children: 1987-2013. Thomas Gabe, Specialist in Social Policy, November 21, 2014 “Eighteen years have passed since repeal of what was the nation’s major cash welfare program assisting low-income families with children, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, and its replacement with a block grant of …
Modifying an Off-the-Shelf Wireless Router for PDF Ballot Tampering – Daniel M. Zimmerman and Joseph R. Kiniry, Galois, Inc., 421 SW 6th Ave., Suite 300, Portland, OR 97204. November 7, 2014 “Abstract – In order to highlight the dangers associated with Internet voting carried out over electronic mail with PDF forms, we show that an off-the-shelf home Internet router can be easily …
Houlihan, Patrick, Diffusion of Price Information Through Message Volume and Sentiment (October 8, 2014). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2527968 “Several market data parameters have been validated to be correlated with asset price changes. In addition, many have been used as independent variables in a variety of models to help explain the direction of future …
Londono, Juan M. and Tian, Mary H., Bank Interventions and Options-Based Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Global and Euro-Area Crisis (September 19, 2014). FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1117. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2531686 “Using a novel dataset on central bank interventions to financial institutions, we examine the impact of capital injection announcements …
