Via OCLC – Research in Context presentation at ALA Midwinter now available – “Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist, presented “Research in Context” on Friday, 30 January 2015 during the OCLC Symposium at ALA Midwinter in Chicago. View the video of this presentation to learn how research activities can move beyond insights… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
S. 766, Driver Privacy Act of 2015
CBO – “S. 766 would establish that any data collected by event data recorders (EDRs) in motor vehicles are the property of the owner or lessee of the vehicle and would set broad conditions under which such data could be retrieved by others for purposes such as judicial proceedings, investigations, and traffic safety research. The… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Indian Housing Block Grant Program, Defense Acquisitions, FDIC Info Security, Tanker Aircraft
Data Use and Regulatory Status of the Indian Housing Block Grant Program, GAO-15-353R: Published: Mar 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 9, 2015. Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs [Reissued on April 9, 2015], GAO-15-342SP: Published: Mar 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 12, 2015. Information Security: FDIC Implemented Many Controls over Financial Systems, but Opportunities… Continue Reading
OECD Economic Surveys: United Kingdom 2015
“This OECD Economic Survey of the United Kingdom examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. Special chapters cover improving infrastructure and ensuring sustainable bank lending.” February 24, 2015. Continue Reading
IMF – Now Is the Time Fiscal Policies for Sustainable Growth
Chapter 2: Can Fiscal Policy Stabilize Output?, April 2015. “As interest rates close to their lower bound limit the ability of monetary policy to smooth fluctuations in economic activity, this chapter of the Fiscal Monitor looks into how fiscal policy can do so. The two main findings are that fiscal policy is often used to… Continue Reading
Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
“The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index is a weekly, random-sample survey tracking Americans’ views on the condition of the U.S. economy, their personal finances and the buying climate. The survey was formerly sponsored by ABC News since 1985. Beginning in April 2014, immediate details of the report are available by subscription through Langer Research Associates which… Continue Reading
Fifth EBRD and World Bank Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey
“Governments across the transition region are continuing to improve the local business environment in an attempt to unleash the full productive capacity of the private sector. This report summarises feedback from the managers of firms in 29 transition countries about what they regard as the main improvements – and the remaining challenges – in the… Continue Reading
World Bank Enterprise Surveys
“An Enterprise Survey is a firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy’s private sector. The surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and performance measures. Since 2002, the World Bank has collected this data from face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners… Continue Reading
New Report Projects When Women in Each U.S. State Will Achieve Equal Pay
“The first release from Status of Women in the States: 2015, a project of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finds that, if current trends in narrowing the pay gap in the states continue, the date when women in the United States will achieve equal pay is 2058, but new projections for each state… Continue Reading
The Economic Consequences of Investor Relations: A Global Perspective
Karolyi, George Andrew and Liao, Rose C., The Economic Consequences of Investor Relations: A Global Perspective (April 6, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2591079 “We offer new evidence on the economic value of investor relations (IR) activity using the results of a 2012 global survey of IR officers and their activities at over 800… Continue Reading
The FR 2420 Data Collection: A New Base for the Fed Funds Rate
Marco Cipriani and Jonathan Cohn – “On April 1, 2014, the Federal Reserve began collecting transaction-level data on federal funds, Eurodollars, and certificates of deposits from a large set of domestic banks and agencies of foreign banks operating in the United States. Previously, the Fed had only received fed funds and Eurodollar data from major… Continue Reading
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 17-18, 2015
FOMC Minutes – Summary of Economic Projections “In conjunction with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on March 17-18, 2015, meeting participants submitted their projections of the most likely outcomes for real output growth, the unemployment rate, inflation, and the federal likely to affect economic outcomes. The longer-run projections represent each participant’s assessment… Continue Reading
