Via June Liebert – International Legal Technology Association: “Released in May 2014, Legal Technology Future Horizons (LTFH) is a report that provides insights and practical ideas to inform the development of future business and IT strategies for law firms, law departments and legal technology vendors. The research, analysis and interpretation of the findings were undertaken by Fast Future… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
UK Guardian – Robot doctors, online lawyers and automated architects: the future of the professions?
Advances in technology have long been recognised as a threat to manual labour. Now highly skilled, knowledge-based jobs that were once regarded as safe could be at risk. How will they adapt to the digital age? “Last year, reporters for the Associated Press attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology.… Continue Reading
Breadwinning Mothers, Then and Now
Sarah Jane Glynn: “The movement of women out of the home and into the paid labor force has changed the way families live and work today. The role of working mothers as breadwinners has received increased media and scholarly attention since the Center for American Progress first released “The New Breadwinners,” a chapter in 2009’s The Shriver Report: A Woman’s… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – NASA Export Controls, Tobacco Product Regulation
EXPORT CONTROLS: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies, GAO-14-690T: Published: Jun 20, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2014. TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION: Most FDA Spending Funded Public Education, Regulatory Science, and Compliance and Enforcement Activities, GAO-14-561: Published: Jun 20, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2014. Continue Reading
Clinton, Elder Bush Most Positively Rated Living Presidents
Gallup – Americans view all former presidents more positively than negatively: “Americans view each of the four former living presidents more positively than negatively, while giving Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush higher favorable ratings than George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. Current President Barack Obama has a net-negative favorable rating. The younger Bush’s current favorable rating… Continue Reading
The Future of the State – Wharton
“Recent trends show a rapid expansion of state activity in some parts of the emerging world at the same time that social programs in education, health care, unemployment benefits and old-age pensions have stagnated or even retrenched in the advanced industrial economies. In addition, the recent global financial crisis has triggered an increasing presence of the… Continue Reading
MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses
MIT News release: “A research team from Harvard University and MIT has released its third and final promised deliverable — the de-identified learning data — relating to an initial study of online learning based on each institution’s first-year courses on the edX platform. Specifically, the dataset contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and MITx courses… Continue Reading
Fed Policy Expectations and Portfolio Flows to Emerging Markets
Koepke, Robin, Fed Policy Expectations and Portfolio Flows to Emerging Markets (June 18, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456288 “The Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary stimulus measures have revived a controversial policy debate about the impact of U.S. monetary policy on capital flows to emerging markets. This paper presents evidence of an important transmission channel that has not… Continue Reading
The Zero Lower Bound and Endogenous Uncertainty
Plante, Michael and Richter, Alexander W. and Throckmorton, Nathaniel A., The Zero Lower Bound and Endogenous Uncertainty (April 30, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456425 “This paper documents a strong negative correlation between macroeconomic uncertainty and real GDP growth since the Great Recession. Prior to that event the correlation was weak, even when conditioning on recessions. At… Continue Reading
World Refugee Day
UN – “For years, many countries and regions have been holding their own Refugee Days and even Weeks. One of the most widespread is Africa Refugee Day, which is celebrated on 20 June in several countries. The UN General Assembly, on 4 December 2000, adopted resolution 55/76 where it noted that 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951… Continue Reading
Do Hedge Funds Possess Private Information in IPO Stocks? Evidence from Post-IPO Holdings
Qian, Hong and Zhong, Zhaodong, Do Hedge Funds Possess Private Information in IPO Stocks? Evidence from Post-IPO Holdings (June 15, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456025 “Using hedge funds’ holdings of IPO stocks, we find that stocks with hedge fund holdings beyond what can be explained by publicly available information yield abnormal returns, suggesting that hedge funds… Continue Reading
HSA Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics
“Fronstin, Paul, HSA Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics — A First Look at Data from the EBRI HSA Database on the 10th Anniversary of the HSA (June 2014). EBRI Issue Brief, Number 400 (June 2014). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456259 “This year marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of health savings accounts… Continue Reading
