“Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center’s analysis of comScore data. At the same time, though, desktop visitors to these sites tend… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
The State & Local Finance Initiative’s State Economic Monitor
“The State & Local Finance Initiative’s State Economic Monitor tracks and analyzes economic and fiscal trends at the state level. Its interactive graphics highlight particular differences across all 50 states and the District of Columbia in employment, wages, housing, and taxes. Each section is updated when new data are released. The US Bureau of Labor… Continue Reading
End-of-Life Finances for Older Americans and The Use of “Big Data” in Employee Benefits
“New research by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) shows that a large percentage of individuals who died recently had little or no assets. Those who died relatively younger were even more likely to be in this situation. “Households which lost family members at relatively younger ages were also the households with lower asset… Continue Reading
Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television
From the Aether to the Ethernet – Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television. Yossef Oren, Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University 19th May 2014. “In the attempt to bring modern broadband Internet fea-tures to traditional broadcast television, the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium introduced a specification called Hybrid Broadcast-Broadband Television(HbbTV), which allows broadcast streams to… Continue Reading
Potential Macroeconomic Impact of Unconventional Oil and Gas Boom in US
The Potential Macroeconomic Impact of the Unconventional Oil and Gas Boom in the United States, Ben Hunt; Dirk Muir; Martin Sommer. May 1. 2015. WP/15/92. “This paper uses two of the IMF’s structural macroeconomic models to estimate the potential global impact of the boom in unconventional oil and natural gas in the United States. The… Continue Reading
Group of Twenty – Measures Which are Both Macroprudential and Capital Flow Management Measures
Group of Twenty – Measures Which are Both Macroprudential and Capital Flow Management Measures: IMF Approach, April 30, 2015. “The global financial crisis underscored the costs of systemic instability at both the national and global levels and highlighted the importance of dedicated macroprudential and capital flow management policies. The IMF has been assisting its members… Continue Reading
Investor Reaction in Stock Market Crashes and Post-Crash Market Reversals
Folkinshteyn, Daniel and Meric, Gulser and Meric, Ilhan, Investor Reaction in Stock Market Crashes and Post-Crash Market Reversals (December 15, 2014). International Journal of Business and Finance Research, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2601622 ‘We study investor overreaction using data for five major stock market crashes during the 1987-2008 period. We find some evidence… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board releases its Semiannual Report on Banking Applications Activity
“The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released its Semiannual Report on Banking Applications Activity, which provides aggregate information on proposals filed by banking organizations and reviewed by the Federal Reserve. The report includes information on the number of proposals that have been approved, denied, and withdrawn, as well as the average length of time taken… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Defense Contracting, Railroad Retirement Board
Defense Contracting: DOD’s Use of Competitive Procedures, GAO-15-484R: Published: May 1, 2015. Publicly Released: May 1, 2015: “During the period from fiscal year 2010 through fiscal year 2014, DOD’s competition rate—the dollars obligated annually on competitive contracts and task orders as a percentage of dollars obligated on all contracts and orders—ranged from 60.8 percent to… Continue Reading
