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BIS Quarterly Review March 2015 International banking and financial market developments [268 pages, PDF] – Table of Contents follows: A wave of further easing – Largely unexpected, a wave of monetary policy easing over the past few months has taken centre stage in global financial markets. Amid plunging oil prices and rising foreign exchange tensions, …
DOE Facilities: Better Prioritization and Life Cycle Cost Analysis Would Improve Disposition Planning, GAO-15-272: Published: Mar 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 19, 2015. Financial Company Bankruptcies: Information on Legislative Proposals and International Coordination, GAO-15-299: Published: Mar 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 19, 2015. Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data …
Release Date: March 18, 2015 – “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic growth has moderated somewhat. Labor market conditions have improved further, with strong job gains and a lower unemployment rate. A range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources continues to diminish. Household …
Crop Insurance: Reducing Subsidies for Highest Income Participants Could Save Federal Dollars with Minimal Effect on the Program, GAO-15-356: Published: Mar 18, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 18, 2015: “The federally subsidized crop insurance program helps about 1 million participants manage the risk inherent in farming. In recent years, the government’s costs for the crop insurance …
“Low oil prices and monetary easing are boosting growth in the world’s major economies, but the near-term pace of expansion remains modest, with abnormally low inflation and interest rates pointing to risks of financial instability, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment. Strong domestic demand is driving growth in the United States, which, combined with …
Unemployment rates by state, seasonally adjusted, January 2015 – browse data via drop down menus.
“The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced a proposal that would require banking organizations to include their existing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) on certain regulatory reporting forms. The LEI is a unique reference code to enable easier identification of a firm’s legal entities. During the financial crisis, regulators and the public were often unable to …
CBO – “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) provides benefits to low-income households to help them buy food. Total federal expenditures on SNAP amounted to $76 billion in fiscal year 2014. In an average month that year, 47 million people (or one in seven U.S. residents) received SNAP benefits. Some …
Amorello, Luca and Huber, Sacha, Recovery Planning: A New Valuable Corporate Governance Framework for Credit Institutions (March 9, 2015). Law and Economics Yearly Review, Vol. 3, Part 2, 2014 (pp. 296-317). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2577760 “Since the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers realized the need to implement a new regime for …
Financial crisis, US unconventional monetary policy and international spillovers by Qianying Chen, Andrew Filardo, Dong He and Feng Zhu. Bank for International Settlements Working Paper No 494. March 2015. “We study the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error correction model (GVECM). We focus …
Has performance pay contributed to the rise of inequality in the United States? – Maury B. Gittleman “The tremendous amount of attention paid to Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, as well as the French economist’s more academic writings, have helped raise awareness of rising economic inequality in the United States. Maury Gittleman …
“In this new study, economist Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon, LLC, and a faculty member of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, analyzes new Census Bureau data to track the household incomes of Americans by age cohort, following their income paths as they age. Using this approach, Shapiro shows that income progress was broad and robust …
