Military Spouse Employment Programs – DOD Can Improve Guidance and Performance Monitoring, GAO-13-60, Dec 13, 2012 Electronic Health Records – Number and Characteristics of Providers Awarded Medicaid Incentive Payments for 2011, GAO-13-146R, Dec 13, 2012 Continue Reading
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Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
“The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is the largest ever systematic effort to describe the global distribution and causes of a wide array of major diseases, injuries, and health risk factors. The results show that infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition now cause fewer deaths and less illness than they… Continue Reading
Key Dimensions and Processes in the U.S. Credit Reporting System
Key Dimensions and Processes in the U.S. Credit Reporting System: A review of how the nations largest credit bureaus manage consumer data, December 13, 2012 “This paper describes the credit reporting infrastructure at the three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies (NCRAs) Equifax Information Services LLC (Equifax), TransUnion LLC (TransUnion), and Experian Information Solutions Inc.… Continue Reading
European Central Bank publishes consolidated banking data for end-June 2012
[December 12, 2012] “the European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing the June-2012 Consolidated Banking Data (CBD), a data set that provides various statistics about the EU banking system on consolidated basis. It includes statistics on both individual EU Member States and the EU as a whole. It refers to 430 banking groups together with 4,216… Continue Reading
European Central Bank Monthly Bulletin – December 2012
Monthly Bulletin: “Based on its regular economic and monetary analyses, the Governing Council decided at its meeting on 6 December to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged. Owing to high energy prices and increases in indirect taxes in some euro area countries, HICP inflation rates have been elevated for some time. More recently they… Continue Reading
The financial cycle and macroeconomics: What have we learnt?
The financial cycle and macroeconomics: What have we learnt? by Claudio Borio. Working Papers No 395, December 2012 “It is high time we rediscovered the role of the financial cycle in macroeconomics. In the environment that has prevailed for at least three decades now, it is not possible to understand business fluctuations and the corresponding… Continue Reading
Systematic monetary policy and the forward premium puzzle
Systematic monetary policy and the forward premium puzzle, by Demosthenes N. Tambakis and Nikola Tarashev. Working Papers No 396, December 2012 “Is systematic monetary policy a driver of the forward premium puzzle, i.e. the tendency of high interest-rate currencies to appreciate, thus strongly violating Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP)? We address this question by studying a… Continue Reading
Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945
CRS – Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945 (Updated), Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance. December 12, 2012 “Income tax rates are at the center of many recent policy debates over taxes. Some policymakers argue that raising tax rates, especially on higher income taxpayers, to increase… Continue Reading
European Central Bank – Statistics Pocket Book December 2012
ECB Statistics Pocket Book December 2012: “Online access to data and metadata – “For series included in the Statistics Pocket Book, methodologies and descriptions of metadata are available in the ECBs Statistical Data Warehouse (SDW), at http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu. The latest available data for the series published in the Pocket Book are presented in a… Continue Reading
Presidential Appointee Positions Requiring Senate Confirmation and Committees Handling Nominations
CRS – Presidential Appointee Positions Requiring Senate Confirmation and Committees Handling Nominations, November 15, 2012 “This report identifies, by Senate committee, presidentially appointed positions requiring Senate confirmation based on referrals as of the date of passage of S. 679, which became P.L. 112-166 on August 10, 2012. This public law removed numerous presidentially appointed positions… Continue Reading
Pew – Social Networking Popular Across Globe
“Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to… Continue Reading
CRS: Presidential Reorganization Authority
Presidential Reorganization Authority: History, Recent Initiatives, and Options for Congress, December 11, 2012: “On January 13, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that he would ask Congress to reinstate so-called presidential reorganization authority, and his Administration conveyed a legislative proposal that would renew this authority to Congress on February 16, 2012. Bills based on the proposed… Continue Reading
