Day archives: March 16th, 2015

Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published its Report ‘Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework’

“The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has today published its Report ‘Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework‘. This Report includes, for the first time in a single document, a comprehensive review of the full range of intrusive capabilities available to the UK intelligence Agencies. It contains an unprecedented amount of information …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Recovery Planning: A New Valuable Corporate Governance Framework for Credit Institutions

Amorello, Luca and Huber, Sacha, Recovery Planning: A New Valuable Corporate Governance Framework for Credit Institutions (March 9, 2015). Law and Economics Yearly Review, Vol. 3, Part 2, 2014 (pp. 296-317). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2577760 “Since the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers realized the need to implement a new regime for …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Financial crisis, US unconventional monetary policy and international spillovers

Financial crisis, US unconventional monetary policy and international spillovers by Qianying Chen, Andrew Filardo, Dong He and Feng Zhu. Bank for International Settlements Working Paper No 494. March 2015. “We study the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error correction model (GVECM). We focus …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Pay for Performance and Compensation Inequality: Evidence from the ECEC

Has performance pay contributed to the rise of inequality in the United States? – Maury B. Gittleman “The tremendous amount of attention paid to Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, as well as the French economist’s more academic writings, have helped raise awareness of rising economic inequality in the United States. Maury Gittleman …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden

Lee Rainie and Mary Madden: “It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and Americans are still coming to terms with how they feel about the programs and how to live in light of them. The documents leaked by Snowden revealed …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Mail, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate

CRS – Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate. Angele A. Gilroy, Specialist in Telecommunications Policy. March 9, 2015. “As congressional policymakers continue to debate telecommunications reform, a major discussion point revolves around what approach should be taken to ensure unfettered access to the Internet. The move to place restrictions on the owners of …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During President Obama’s First Six Years (2009-2014)

CRS – U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During President Obama’s First Six Years (2009-2014): Comparative Analysis with Recent Presidents, March 9, 2015. “The selection and confirmation process for U.S. circuit and district court judges is of continuing interest to Congress. Recent Senate debates over judicial nominations have focused on issues such as the relative …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

CRS – The Debt Limit Since 2011

The Debt Limit Since 2011, D. Andrew Austin, Analyst in Economic Policy. March 9, 2015. “The Constitution grants Congress the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States—one part of its power of the purse—and thus mandates that Congress exercise control over federal debt. Control of debt policy has at times provided …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Government Documents, Legislation

Census Bureau Releases New Median Earnings by Detailed Occupations

“In honor of Women’s History Month, the U.S. Census Bureau released today a new table showing median earnings by detailed occupation from the 2013 American Community Survey. The table includes ratios indicating the percentage of women in an occupation, as well as the male-to-female earnings ratio in the occupation for full-time, year round workers in …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents

New GAO Reports – Criminal History Records, Geospatial Data, Improper Payments, Military Base Realignments and Closures, Operational Contract Support, Recovery Act

Criminal History Records: Additional Actions Could Enhance the Completeness of Records Used For Employment-Related Background Checks, GAO-15-162: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2015. Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts, GAO-15-193: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2015. Homeland Security …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Defense, Economy

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