Category «Financial System»

Rules, Standards, and Complexity in the Cost Benefit Analysis of Capital Regulation

Rules, Standards, and Complexity in the Cost Benefit Analysis of Capital Regulation, Prasad Krishnamurthy – U.C. Berkeley School of Law; University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy; University of California, Berkeley, December 1, 2013. Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming. “This article considers whether cost-benefit analysis can inform two important issues in …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

From Food Insufficiency towards Trade Dependency

From Food Insufficiency towards Trade Dependency: A Historical Analysis of Global Food Availability. Miina Porkka; Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert; Olli Varis. Published: December 18, 2013. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082714 “Achieving global food security is one of the major challenges of the coming decades. In order to tackle future food security challenges we must understand the past. This study presents a historical analysis of …

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

Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries

Brookings – Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries, by: Gary Burtless and Barry P. Bosworth | December 16, 2013 “The Great Recession had a large impact on unemployment rates and growth in wealthy industrial countries. When the recession began most rich countries were experiencing an increase in labor force participation rates after age 60. This paper …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

UK Guardian – Demand for food stamps soars as cuts sink in and shelves empty

More working Americans are lining up at emergency food banks and going hungry, as cuts to those programmes take effect, by Karen McVeigh. “Deep cuts to the US food stamps programme, designed to keep low-income Americans out of hunger in the aftermath of the economic recession, have forced increasing numbers of families such as theirs to rely …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing

CRS – Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights

Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights, Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. December 17, 2013 “Two years after the 2011 U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, sectarian divisions and the Sunni-led uprising in neighboring Syria have fueled a revival of radical Islamist Sunni Muslim insurgent groups that are attempting to undermine Iraq’s stability. Iraq’s Sunni Arab …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States

CRS – China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States, Wayne M. Morrison, Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance. December 17, 2013 “The rapid rise of China as a major economic power within a time span of about threedecades is often described by analysts as one of the greatest economic success stories …

Subjects: Climate Change, Defense, Economy, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

New GAO Reports – SEC Financial Audit, DOD’s Weapon Programs, VA Nursing Homes, Workforce Investment Act, Children’s Health Insurance

Financial Audit – Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fiscal Years 2013 and 2012 Financial Statements [Reissued on December 23, 2013], GAO-14-213R, Dec 16, 2013 Small Business Innovation Research – DOD’s Program Supports Weapon Systems, but Lacks Comprehensive Data on Technology Transition Outcomes, GAO-14-96, Dec 20, 2013 VA Nursing Homes – Reporting More Complete Data on Workload …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Financial System, Health Care

Navigating the Great Recession: what role for monetary policy?

Navigating the Great Recession: what role for monetary policy? by Stephen G Cecchetti, Finn E Kydland, Jaime Caruana, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Thomas Jordan and Glenn Stevens The 12th BIS Annual Conference took place in Lucerne, Switzerland on 20-21 June 2013. The event brought together a distinguished group of central bank governors, leading academics and former …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Longevity risk transfer markets: market structure, growth drivers and impediments, and potential risks

“Ageing populations pose serious social policy and regulatory/supervisory challenges in many countries. Longevity risk – the risk of paying out on pensions and annuities for longer than anticipated – is significant when measured from a financial perspective. Longevity risk transfer markets: market structure, growth drivers and impediments, and potential risks [December 2013] is a forward-looking …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

2013 Report on NASA’s Top Management and Performance Challenges

Office of Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 2, 2013. “As required by the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, this memorandum provides our views of the top management and performance challenges facing NASA for inclusion in the Agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 Performance and Accountability Report. In deciding whether to identify an issue as a …

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

WaPo – HealthCare.gov contract: Politics not a factor, but neither were firm’s ties to failed projects

HealthCare.gov contract: Politics not a factor, but neither were firm’s ties to failed projects – By Jerry Markon and Alice Crites [snipped] “CGI Federal, the company responsible for building the problem-plagued Web site for the Affordable Care Act, won the job because of what federal officials deemed a “technically superior” proposal, according to government documents and people …

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

Why Labor Force Participation (Usually) Increases When Unemployment Declines

Why Labor Force Participation (Usually) Increases When Unemployment Declines, by Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Economic Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 1, First Quarter 2013, pp.1-23 “Unemployment and labor force participation (LFP) are usually negatively correlated over the business cycle, that is, once the unemployment rate starts to decline the LFP rate starts to increase after about …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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