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UK Big Data Network Support – “The public and commercial sectors are continuously generating large amounts of data. These data, ‘big data’, represent a significant resource for society; they can provide a powerful discovery tool for researchers, enabling them to gain valuable insight, but present great challenges for reuse in terms of volume and complexity. …
“Car and car parts dealers (NAICS 441) had sales of $1.0 trillion, representing an increase of 6.5 percent over the previous year, according to new statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 Annual Retail Trade Survey. Statistics presented for the entire retail trade sector show (NAICS 44-45) food services and drinking places (NAICS …
Banking Deserts, Branch Closings, and Soft Information – Donald Morgan, Maxim Pinkovsky, and Bryan Yang – Liberty Street Economics, March 7, 2016. “U.S. banks have shuttered nearly 5,000 branches since the financial crisis, raising concerns that more low-income and minority neighborhoods may be devolving into “banking deserts” with inadequate, or no, mainstream financial services. We …
“The BIS Statistical Bulletin March 2016 [303 pages – PDF] provides an extensive overview of the statistics published by the BIS. Statistics published in the Bulletin are compiled in cooperation with central banks and other national authorities and are designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity. Some BIS statistics, …
Bank for International Settlements – Andrés Murcia Pabón and Emanuel Kohlscheen Working Papers No 548, March 2016 “We study the determinants of loan loss provisions and delinquency ratios based on the balance sheets of 554 banks from emerging market economies (EMEs). We find that provisions in EME banks respond mostly to aggregate variables, and very …
Manual on Government Deficit and Debt – Implementation of ESA 2010 – 2016 edition “This new 2016 edition of the Manual is an updated version of the edition published in August 2014. In the current edition, in particular, the following parts were revised: Part I (Delimitation of the general government sector): section I.2.3 ‘Concept of …
Via reliefweb: Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis: top citizenships – “In 2015, 1 255 600 first time asylum seekers applied for international protection in the Member States of the European Union (EU), a number more than double that of the previous year. The number of Syrians seeking international protection has doubled in 2015 compared with the previous …
BLS – Ann C. Foster – “The aging of the United States population will influence the economy for many years to come. The Census Bureau projects that in 2050, the population aged 65 and older will be 83.7 million, almost double its estimate of 43.1 million in 2012. This article examines the spending patterns of …
“The life of American workers in 1915 discusses population, labor force, job, and wage characteristics, as well as the food workers ate, the homes they lived in, and how they traveled to work a century ago. It is one of several articles marking the 100th anniversary of the Monthly Labor Review…From 1910 to 2015, employment …
Wilt, Michael Patrick, The Political Economy of Corporate Financial Regulatory Legislation (February 19, 2016). John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2016. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2734991 “Every few years over the last several decades, Congress has been faced with the question of how to best regulate corporate financial activities. In the late …
March 2016 – “In October 2014, the Committee proposed revisions to the standardised approaches for calculating operational risk capital. This updated consultative document proposes further revisions to the framework, which emerged from the Committee’s broad review of the capital framework. The Committee’s review of banks’ operational risk modelling practices and capital outcomes revealed that the …
“This report presents the results of its latest Basel III monitoring exercise. The Committee established a rigorous reporting process to regularly review the implications of the Basel III standards for banks, and it has published the results of previous exercises since 2012. Data have been provided for a total of 230 banks, comprising 101 large …
