“The Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures, and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems for state and local governments. This report produces three tables: Tables 1 and 3 include data on cash and security holdings and Table 2 provides data on earnings on investments,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014
“It is alarming that many of the most basic infection disease controls failed when tested. After more than a decade of focus on preparing for public health emergencies in the wake of the September 11 and anthrax tragedies, there have been troubling errors, lapses and scrambles to recreate practices and policies that were supposed to have been long considered and well established. The country spent… Continue Reading
Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras
Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras – Assessing the Evidence, by Michael D. White, PhD – Office of Justice Programs. “The majority of this publication reviews the claims made by advocates and critics regarding body worn camera technology and includes a discussion of the empirical evidence supporting each claim. Given the lack of research, there is little evidence to support or refute many… Continue Reading
Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch Free HiRes Download of Over 40,000 Works
“Welcome to Phase 1 of Open F|S, the complete digitized collections of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Freer Study Collection. With more than 40,000 works being made available for high-resolution download—expanding regularly with our new acquisitions—you can explore the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art from anywhere in the world, whenever you like. Images… Continue Reading
New digital archive will allow public to view wills of historic names
Nick Clark – The Independent: ” From George Orwell, who insisted all his manuscripts be preserved, to Charles Dickens who wanted no memorials put up to his life, history buffs can now explore the wills of some of the most influential figures of the past 150 years at the click of a mouse. The Government today announced… Continue Reading
The Effects of Capital on Bank Lending in EU Large Banks
Olszak, Małgorzata Anna and Pipien, Mateusz and Roszkowska, Sylwia and Kowalska, Iwona, The Effects of Capital on Bank Lending in EU Large Banks – The Role of Procyclicality, Income Smoothing, Regulations and Supervision (December 29, 2014). University of Warsaw Faculty of Management Working Paper No. 5. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2543675 “This paper aims… Continue Reading
Sustainability of Public Debt in the United States and Japan
William R. Cline, Peterson Institute for International Economics. October 2014 Working Paper 14-9: “Over the next decade, the United States will have to do more to keep the debt-to-GDP ratio from escalating, while much more will need to be done in Japan. Using the probability-weighted ratio of net debt to GDP (federal debt held by the public… Continue Reading
