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Daily Archives: March 29, 2009

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide: Sabrina I. Pacifici’s completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a “best of list” of web, database and email alert products, services and tools, as well links to content specific sources produced by governments, academia, NGOs, the media and various publishers.

More Interactive State Law Maps Available Online Posted by Highway Safety Organization

“The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) continues to enhance its online presentation of state laws with interactive US maps. The latest series of state law maps includes those for cellphones, safety belt use, child restraints, minitrucks, and low-speed vehicles. The maps help illustrate the extent to which US states are addressing these highway safety… Continue Reading

Deloitte Report: Tax responses to the global economic crisis

Deloitte: Tax responses to the global economic crisis, Published 20 March 2009 (updated); 24 pages. “Countries worldwide are taking steps to counter the effects of the global financial and economic crisis. From a tax and fiscal perspective, the approaches taken thus far range from formal “stimulus” packages, to ad hoc measures, to temporary provisions, to… Continue Reading

Technological Change, Financial Innovation, and Diffusion in Banking

Technological Change, Financial Innovation, and Diffusion in Banking, W. Scott Frame and Lawrence J. White, Working Paper 2009-10, March 2009 “This paper discusses the technological change and financial innovation that commercial banking has experienced during the past twenty-five years. The paper first describes the role of the financial system in economies and how technological change… Continue Reading