Monthly archives: November, 2015

Report – The Uneven Housing Recovery

Center for American Progress, Michela Zonta and Sarah Edelman | November 2, 2015: “The Great Recession, which began with the collapse of U.S. home prices in 2007, resulted in an enormous number of households with negative equity. Housing prices dropped nationally by 35 percent during the collapse. As home values fell, the mortgage debt obligations of millions of American …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing

New on LLRX – A Matter of Trust: Why the Time is Right to Adopt the Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act (UELMA) in Florida

Via LLRX.com –  A Matter of Trust: Why the Time is Right to Adopt the Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act (UELMA) in Florida – In this article, Law Librarian Patricia Morgan brings our attention to a group of prominently related issues on electronic legal research whose application are critical for attorneys, librarians and courts. In …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Doing Business 2016

“Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 13th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Law on the Market? Evaluating the Securities Market Impact of Supreme Court Decisions

Katz, Daniel Martin and Bommarito, Michael James and Soellinger, Tyler and Chen, James Ming, Law on the Market? Evaluating the Securities Market Impact of Supreme Court Decisions (August 24, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2649726 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2649726  “Do judicial decisions affect the securities markets in discernible and perhaps predictable ways? In other words, is …

Subjects: Courts, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Securities Law

What’s my place in the world population? How long will I live?

“Population.io aims to make demography – the study of human populations – accessible to a wider audience. We believe that demographic data can play an important role in understanding the social and economic developments of our time. Our hope is that people from all walks of life, in all ages and across all countries will …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Economics of the Interconnection Data Centre Industry

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. and Milde, Christopher and Selke, André, Economics of the Interconnection Data Centre (IDC) Industry (October 1, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2680186 “The modern digital economy is characterized by high data volumes and the necessity for reliable high speed data exchange. Businesses such as Netflix, providing video on-demand, social and messaging …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Cost of Used Books Plummets as Availability Swells

New York Times – A Penny for Your Books By Dan Nosowitzoct, October 26, 2015: “…in recent years, my bookshelves have swelled. Old John le Carré and Donald E. Westlake and Lawrence Block titles are easier than ever to find online, along with pretty much every other book published in the last century. They’re all …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

Cybersecurity: The changing role of audit committee and internal audit

Deloitte: “Among the most complex and rapidly evolving issues companies must contend with is cybersecurity. With the advent of mobile technology, cloud computing, and social media, reports on major breaches of proprietary information and damage to organisational IT infrastructure have also become increasingly common, thus transforming the IT risk landscape at a rapid pace. International …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research