Day archives: November 28th, 2015

Liquidity Management in Banking: What is the Role of Leverage?

Vo, Quynh Anh, Liquidity Management in Banking: What is the Role of Leverage? (October 2015). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 15-51. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2696126 “This paper examines potential impacts of banks’ leverage on their incentives to manage their liquidity. We analyse a model where banks control their liquidity risk by managing …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Patent Transactions in the Marketplace: Lessons from the USPTO Patent Assignment Dataset

Graham, Stuart J.H. and Marco, Alan C. and Myers, Amanda F., Patent Transactions in the Marketplace: Lessons from the USPTO Patent Assignment Dataset (November 1, 2015). Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 29. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2696147 “While records of the assignments (transactions) affecting US patents and patent applications have …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

ODNI Announces Transition to New Telephone Metadata Program

News release: “Beginning Sunday, November 29, the government is prohibited from collecting telephone metadata records in bulk under Section 215, including of both U.S. and non-U.S. persons. And, while under the prior program NSA collected metadata in bulk and sought court approval for individual queries, the USA FREEDOM Act requires that the government must now …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Defense, E-Government, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy