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Knowedge@Wharton – “Last week, YouTube launched the company’s long-anticipated ad-free monthly subscription service, YouTube Red — a move that may not only affect the streaming video giant’s content creators and users, but also ripple through a number of businesses run by YouTube’s parent company, Google. And the impact of the announcement could reverberate further: YouTube …
“Global Diversity List is first assessment of individuals and companies with outstanding commitment to diversity nominated by readers of The Economist. The first ever assessment of the world’s leading authorities on diversity was announced on Saturday 31 October 2015. The Global Diversity List, a comprehensive guide to the individuals who are putting diversity at the …
“In conjunction with today’s publication by the Financial Stability Board of the updated list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has released further information. This information includes: • a list of all the banks in the assessment sample; • the denominators used to calculate the scores for banks in …
“The 2012 Economic Census concludes the Geographic Area Series for the real estate and rental and leasing sector. This series includes statistics for real estate, rental and leasing services and lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works). The files provide statistics on the number of establishments, revenue, payroll, number of employees and other data …
Gallup – Jeffrey M. Jones – Thirty-seven percent of U.S. workers say they have telecommuted, up slightly from 30% last decade but four times greater than the 9% found in 1995. Average worker telecommutes two days per month 46% of telecommuters do so during the workday Most say telecommuters just as productive as other employees …
“The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) members today issued a statement alerting financial institutions to the increasing frequency and severity of cyber attacks involving extortion. The statement describes steps financial institutions should take to respond to these attacks and highlights resources institutions can use to mitigate the risks posed by such attacks. Cyber attacks …
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, October 30, 2015. “As of March 31, 2015, approximately $110 billion had been appropriated for Afghanistan relief and reconstruction since 2002. These funds are used to build the Afghan National Security Forces, promote good governance, conduct development assistance, and engage in counter-narcotics …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
