Category «Economy»

New GAO Reports – Advanced Reactor Research, Debt Management, DOD Financial Management, Maritime Security, Medicaid, Telecommunications, Spina Bifida

ADVANCED REACTOR RESEARCH: DOE Supports Multiple Technologies, but Actions Needed to Ensure a Prototype Is Built, GAO-14-545: Published: Jun 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2014. DEBT MANAGEMENT: Floating Rate Notes Can Help Treasury Meet Borrowing Goals, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Help Manage Risk, GAO-14-535: Published: Jun 16, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2014. DEBT MANAGEMENT: Survey of Investors in …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Medicine

State & Trends Report Charts Global Growth of Carbon Pricing

“Globally, 39 national and 23 sub-national jurisdictions have implemented or are scheduled to implement carbon pricing instruments, including emissions trading systems and taxes. The world’s emissions trading schemes are valued at about $30 billion, with China now housing the world’s second largest carbon market, covering the equivalent of 1,115 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Securities Lending and the Untold Story in the Collapse of AIG

“American International Group Inc. (AIG), a worldwide insurance powerhouse, avoided bankruptcy in 2008 thanks to generous bailouts from the federal government. Understanding what happened to AIG is critical in evaluating the regulatory reforms enacted since the crisis, and ascertaining whether earlier implementation of those reforms would have prevented the AIG bailout and whether the reforms …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Evidence review of the economic contribution of libraries

Foreword from Arts Council England, Final Report June 2014: “Every day, across England a wide range of people walk into their library, or visit their library online to do an extraordinary range of things: borrow a book or DVD, attend a training session, track down some crucial information, meet a friend or client, study quietly and …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Reform Where It Is Least Needed: Diffusion of Post Crisis Risk Governance Regulation

Magee, Shane and Sheedy, Elizabeth A. and Wright, Sue, Reform Where It Is Least Needed: Diffusion of Post Crisis Risk Governance Regulation (June 19, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456837 “Risk governance is arguably the most vital arena for post-crisis bank reform because it addresses the fundamental issues that drive the mismanagement of financial institutions. We assess …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Press Release – Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex 2014-06-19

“Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2%1 of world trade in services. The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most joint changes, which also covers cross-border data flow. In a significant …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

UK Guardian – Robot doctors, online lawyers and automated architects: the future of the professions?

Advances in technology have long been recognised as a threat to manual labour. Now highly skilled, knowledge-based jobs that were once regarded as safe could be at risk. How will they adapt to the digital age? “Last year, reporters for the Associated Press attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology. …

Subjects: Economy, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Breadwinning Mothers, Then and Now

Sarah Jane Glynn: “The movement of women out of the home and into the paid labor force has changed the way families live and work today. The role of working mothers as breadwinners has received increased media and scholarly attention since the Center for American Progress first released “The New Breadwinners,” a chapter in 2009’s The Shriver Report: A Woman’s …

Subjects: Economy

Clinton, Elder Bush Most Positively Rated Living Presidents

Gallup – Americans view all former presidents more positively than negatively: “Americans view each of the four former living presidents more positively than negatively, while giving Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush higher favorable ratings than George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. Current President Barack Obama has a net-negative favorable rating. The younger Bush’s current favorable rating …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents

The Future of the State – Wharton

“Recent trends show a rapid expansion of state activity in some parts of the emerging world at the same time that social programs in education, health care, unemployment benefits and old-age pensions have stagnated or even retrenched in the advanced industrial economies. In addition, the recent global financial crisis has triggered an increasing presence of the …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care

Fed Policy Expectations and Portfolio Flows to Emerging Markets

Koepke, Robin, Fed Policy Expectations and Portfolio Flows to Emerging Markets (June 18, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456288 “The Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary stimulus measures have revived a controversial policy debate about the impact of U.S. monetary policy on capital flows to emerging markets. This paper presents evidence of an important transmission channel that has not …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

The Zero Lower Bound and Endogenous Uncertainty

Plante, Michael and Richter, Alexander W. and Throckmorton, Nathaniel A., The Zero Lower Bound and Endogenous Uncertainty (April 30, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456425 “This paper documents a strong negative correlation between macroeconomic uncertainty and real GDP growth since the Great Recession. Prior to that event the correlation was weak, even when conditioning on recessions. At …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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