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The Australian Public Service Big Data Strategy – Improved understanding through enhanced data-analytics capability, August 2013. “Government policy development and service delivery will benefit from the effective and judicious use of big data analytics. Big data analytics can be used to streamline service delivery, create opportunities for innovation, and identify new service and policy approaches …
From Cairo to Wall Street to the West Bank, plotting a world of upheaval, by Dana Stuster – “This is what data from a world in turmoil looks like. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) tracks news reports and codes them for 58 fields, from where an incident took place to what sort of event it …
“After three decades of increases, adult obesity rates remained level in every state except for one, Arkansas, in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America‘s Future 2013, a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The full report is available here. Visit …
Gallup – One in 10 Americans say they currently have or are being treated for depression, by Alyssa Brown and Kyley McGeeney WASHINGTON, D.C. — “For Americans, being unemployed, being out of the workforce, or working part time — but wanting full-time work — are the strongest predictor of having depression. Unemployed adults and those …
Calo, M. Ryan, Digital Market Manipulation (August 15, 2013). University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-27. Available at SSRN “Jon Hanson and Douglas Kysar coined the term “market manipulation” in 1999 to describe how companies exploit the cognitive limitations of consumers. Everything costs $9.99 because consumers see the price as closer to …
The EU Law on Auditing and the Role of Auditors in the Global Financial Crisis, Hatice Kubra Kandemir, Durham University – Durham Law School, January 2013. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, Vol. 10, pp. 213-233, 2013 “In September 2011, the EU Commissioner Michael Bernier explained that “there are weakness in the way the audit …
The Driving Force behind the Boom and Bust in Construction in Europe, Yan Sun; Pritha Mitra; Alejandro Simone. August 21, 2013 “Summary: This paper studies the factors behind pro-cyclical but widely varying construction shares (as a percent of GDP) across countries, with a strong focus on European countries. Using a dataset covering 48 countries (including …
Assessing the Impact and Phasing of Multi-year Fiscal Adjustment: A General Framework, James Roaf. August 21, 2013 “Summary: This paper provides a general framework to assess the output and debt dynamics of an economy undertaking multi-year fiscal adjustment. The framework allows country-specific assumptions about the magnitude and persistence of fiscal multipliers, hysteresis effects, and endogenous …
Capital Flows are Fickle: Anytime, Anywhere – John C Bluedorn; Rupa Duttagupta; Jaime Guajardo; Petia Topalova. August 22, 2013 “Summary: Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 …
“Richard Yamarone, who puts out the daily Bloomberg Economic Brief, has gathered ALL of the past Jackson Hole papers, and provided them in one location. (All papers sourced via Kansas City Federal Reserve). Conference topics through the years with links to conference papers (click for download)” [via Marcus P. Zillman via 35 Years of Jackson …
Wealth Shocks and Macroeconomic Dynamics, Daniel Cooper- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Karen Dynan – Brookings Institution. June 2013 “The effect of wealth on consumption is an issue of longstanding interest to economists. Analysts believe that fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This article considers so-called wealth effects—the impact of changes in wealth on household …
Measuring bank competition in China: a comparison of new versus conventional approaches applied to loan markets, by Bing Xu, Adrian Van Rixtel and Michiel van Leuvensteijn. Working Papers No 422. August 2013. Bank for International Settlement. “Since the 1980s, important and progressive reforms have profoundly reshaped the structure of the Chinese banking system. Many empirical …
