Category «Financial System»

Environmental Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Environmental Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Pietro Bonetti, University of Padova; Charles H. Cho, ESSEC Business School; Giovanna Michelon; University of Exeter; University of Padova; Yuki Tanaka, Hosei University, December 1, 2013. “Our study is motivated by the lack of overall consensus in the debate about whether and how capital market participants capture and value the disclosure …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Labor IG – Controls Over the Release of UI Weekly Claims Report Need Improvement

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit, Report Number 17-14-001-03-315, issued to the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training. Controls Over the Release of the UI Weekly Claims Report Need Improvement, (January 2, 2014) “Within the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) is responsible …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis

“In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) first studied the quality of cancer care, the barriers to achieving excellent care for all cancer patients remain daunting. Care often is …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Health Care, Medicine

Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger

“Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger is the summary of that workshop, convened in Fall 2012 to examine research gaps and opportunities to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of child hunger in the United States. This report reviews the adequacy of current knowledge, identifies substantial research gaps, …

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

2012 Edition of AAA’s Your Driving Costs brochure

“AAA has published ‘Your Driving Costs’ since 1950. That year, driving a car 10,000 miles per year cost 9 cents per mile, and gasoline sold for 27 cents per gallon. Clearly, that is no longer the case. In 2012 the average costs rose 1.1 cents per mile to 59.6 cents per mile, or $8,946 per …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Financial System, Transportation

Digest of Education Statistics, 2012

“The 48th in a series of publications initiated in 1962, the Digest’s purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents

Spatial Panel Data Models with Common Shocks

Spatial Panel Data Models with Common Shocks. Jushan Bai, Columbia University; Kunpeng Li, Capital University of Economics and Business, December 2013. “Spatial effects and common-shocks effects are of increasing empirical importance. Each type of effects has been analyzed separately in a growing literature. This paper considers a joint modeling of both types of effects. Joint modeling allows …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

The Postmodernity of Big Data

The Postmodernity of Big Data By MICHAEL PEPI – In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation “Big Data fascinates because its presence has always been with us in nature. Each tree, drop of rain, and the path of each grain of sand, both responds to and creates …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

World Welfare is Rising – NY Fed

World Welfare is Rising: Estimation Using Nonparametric Bounds on Welfare Measures – Maxim L. Pinkovskiy, Staff Report No. 662, December 2013 “I take a new approach to measuring world inequality and welfare over time by constructing robust bounds for these series instead of imposing parametric assumptions to compute point estimates. I derive sharp bounds on the Atkinson inequality index …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2011

“Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides an annual overview of national statistics on inpatient hospital stays, including their associated costs, using data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2011, is a statistical brief that provides the most current data on costs for stays in community …

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

Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 317.3 Million on New Year’s Day

“As our nation prepares to begin the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected that on Jan. 1, 2014, the United States population will be 317,297,938. This represents an increase of 2,218,622, or 0.7 percent, from New Year’s Day 2013. In January 2014, one birth is expected to occur every 8 seconds in the United …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

OECD – Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs)

News release with complete statistics: “The OECD unemployment rate stood at 7.9% in October 2013, unchanged from the two previous months. Across the OECD area, 47.8 million persons were unemployed in October 2013, 13.1 million more than in July 2008. In the euro area, the unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage point to 12.1% in October, the first decline …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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