Top 1,000 Companies Wield Power Reserved for Nations: “Globalization has concentrated economic power within a group of large companies who are now able to change the world at a scale historically reserved for nations. Just 1,000 businesses are responsible for half of the total market value of the world’s more than 60,000 publicly traded companies.… Continue Reading
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Paper – Is the SEC a Learning Regulator? Lessons from Proxy Access
Is the SEC a Learning Regulator? Lessons from Proxy Access, Aviv Pichhadze, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society, February 3, 2013. Regulation & Governance (Forthcoming) “Analysis of the US Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) treatment of the concept of ownership in the federal proxy rules, between 1934 and 2010, suggests SEC systems and procedures… Continue Reading
The January 2013 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices
“The Federal Reserve System January 2013 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months. This summary is based on responses from 68 domestic banks and 22 U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks. In… Continue Reading
Annual Report to Congress Regarding the Financial Status of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund FY2012
Annual Report to Congress Regarding the Financial Status of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund Fiscal Year 2012, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, November 16, 2012 “There are three fundamental factors driving the decline in the capital reserve ratio this year. First, while FHA continues to have the most profitable new books of… Continue Reading
World Bank – The Power of the Crowd: Mapping schools and hospitals
“In most developing countries it is often quite hard to know where hospitals or other basic services are located. Even if this data is publicly available it can be inaccurate or incomplete. In the middle of November 2012, the OpenGov Hub and the World Bank Institute (WBI) hosted a Social Infrastructure Mapping event to raise… Continue Reading
CKAN: the Horizon for Data.gov 2.0
“Recently, we marked another milestone in Data.govs evolution. Members of the Open Knowledge Foundation met in Washington, D.C., with the Data.gov team and Federal Agencies to discuss the next iteration of Data.gov. Within months, Data.gov will see major enhancements around its data catalog, how the data is managed and the ease with which the data… Continue Reading
United States Courts – Access to Court Opinions Expands
“A pilot project giving the public free, text-searchable, online-access to court opinions now is available to all federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. The Judicial Conference, the policy-making body of the Federal court system, approved national implementation of the project with the Government Printing Office, Federal Digital System (FDsys), which provides free access to publications… Continue Reading
Ungoverned Spaces, Transnational Crime, and the Prohibition on Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction in International Law
Ungoverned Spaces, Transnational Crime, and the Prohibition on Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction in International Law, Dan E. Stigall, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs, February 3, 2013. Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2013, Forthcoming “Driven by internationalization efforts such as those that accompanied the global efforts to combat the illicit drug… Continue Reading
Homeless Youth in the United States
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness: “The actual number of unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness is difficult to pinpoint. Due to barriers that exist for young people in accessing adult-only shelters and their lack of connection to most social services, many if not most youth experiencing homelessness go uncounted. The most recent Annual Point in Time… Continue Reading
Electronic Course Reserves Copuright Infringement Case Moves to Appeal
Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard: “Fair use and electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of filings and motions this week and more expected soon. One surprise motion came from the U.S.… Continue Reading
EFF – Aaron's Law 2.0: Major Steps Forward, More Work to Be Done
EFF: “Representative Zoe Lofgren has posted on Reddit a modified draft of Aaron’s Law, a proposal to update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and wire fraud law in honor of our friend Aaron Swartz and to make sure that the misguided prosecution that happened to him doesn’t happen to anyone else. We’re very pleased… Continue Reading
A Theory of Aggregate Consumption
Kim, Yun, Setterfield , Mark and Mei, Yuan, A Theory of Aggregate Consumption (January 1, 2013). Trinity College of Economics Working Paper 13-01. Available at SSRN “We develop a Keynesian model of aggregate consumption. Our theory emphasizes the importance of the relative income hypothesis and debt-finance for understanding household consumption behavior. It is shown that… Continue Reading
