Spillovers of US unconventional monetary policy to Asia: the role of long-term interest rates by Ken Miyajima, Madhusudan Mohanty and James Yetman, December 2014. “This paper reviews the role of long-term interest rates in international monetary transmission and related policy challenges in the wake of exceptionally easy US monetary policy. It employs a panel VAR model… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Review of New Student Privacy Laws
National Law Review: “Amid a year filled with high-profile data breaches and a focus on privacy concerns, a number of states have enacted enhanced privacy and data security laws that apply specifically to students, including, in the case of California, new rules that may potentially apply to a broad class of technology services directed at… Continue Reading
EPIC – Senator Rockefeller Proposes Drone Privacy Bill
“Senator Rockefeller, the outgoing Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and a leading privacy champion, introduced a bill to require privacy safeguards in the commercial operation of drones. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Privacy Act of 2014 would prohibit surveillance of individuals by companies unless explicit prior consent is obtained and would require the development of… Continue Reading
Census posts report on Children’s Well-Being
A Child’s Day: Living Arrangements, Nativity, and Family Transitions: 2011 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) Household Economic Studies By Lynda Laughlin Issued December 2014. “The well-being of children is a growing area of interest to researchers and policy makers who focus on the social, cognitive, and economic security of children as they transition from preadolescents to young adults. This report uses a variety of… Continue Reading
US Internet to roll out a faster, 10-gigabit fiber-optic service in Minneapolis
Adam Belz, Star Tribune: “US Internet is rolling out ultrafast Internet service in parts of Minneapolis and planning to push eastward with its high-speed, low-cost fiber network in the summer. The Minnetonka firm that offers fiber-optic service to about 30,000 households in southwest Minneapolis announced Tuesday that it will use that network to offer 10-gigabit-per-pecond Internet… Continue Reading
The Future of Privacy
BY LEE RAINIE AND JANNA ANDERSON – December 18, 2014. The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age. No issue highlights this any better than privacy, always a fluid and context-situated concept and more so now as the boundary between being private and being public is shifting. “We have seen… Continue Reading
First Global Maps from Orbiting Carbon Observatory
“The first global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide from NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission show elevated carbon dioxide concentrations across the Southern Hemisphere from springtime biomass burning and hint at potential surprises to come. At a media briefing at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California;… Continue Reading
Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems
Goldstein, Herman and Scott, Michael S., Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems (December 22, 2014). Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Response Guide Series No. 3, Center for Problem-Oriented Policing , U. S. Department of Justice (2011); Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1340. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2541922 “The public calls… Continue Reading
Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World
“Internet Monitor is delighted to announce the publication of Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World, the project’s second annual report. The report is a collection of roughly three dozen short contributions that highlight and discuss some of the most compelling events and trends in the digitally networked environment over the past year. The publication,… Continue Reading
Principles for financial market infrastructures: Assessment methodology for the oversight expectations applicable to critical service providers
December 2014 – The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published the Assessment methodology for the oversight expectations applicable to critical service providers. The Principles for financial market infrastructures, published by the then Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and IOSCO in April 2012, include… Continue Reading
Spillovers of US unconventional monetary policy to Asia: the role of long-term interest rates
“This paper reviews the role of long-term interest rates in international monetary transmission and related policy challenges in the wake of exceptionally easy US monetary policy. It employs a panel VAR model to examine the impact of a very low US term premium on relatively small open Asian economies. The results show that unconventional US… Continue Reading
America’s wealth gap between middle- and upper-income families widest on record
“The wealth gap between America’s high income group and everyone else has reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09, with a clear trajectory of increasing wealth for the upper-income families and no wealth growth for the middle- and lower-income families. A new Pew Research Center analysis of wealth finds… Continue Reading
