Google Inside Search: “…the Google app is starting to truly understand the meaning of what you’re asking. We can now break down a query to understand the semantics of each piece….so we can get at the intent behind the entire question. That lets us traverse the Knowledge Graph much more reliably to find the right… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Tale of Two Retirements: one for CEOs of large U.S. corporations and the other for the rest of us
Center for Effective Government: “Retirement benefits for CEOs at corporations have exploded while the rest of Americans struggle to save for retirement. Just look at this statistic: the 100 largest CEO retirement funds are worth a combined $4.9 billion. That’s equal to the entire retirement account savings of 41 percent of American families! This rising… Continue Reading
Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Hallegatte, Stephane, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, and Adrien Vogt-Schilb. 2016. Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty. Climate Change and Development Series. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0673-5. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO. “Ending poverty and addressing climate change are… Continue Reading
Does Foreign Tax Arbitrage Promote Innovation? Evidence from Subsidiary-Level Data
Albertus, James F, Does Foreign Tax Arbitrage Promote Innovation? Evidence from Subsidiary-Level Data (November 15, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2691064 “In this paper, I examine innovation in the context of an unexpected policy shock that facilitated tax arbitrage by U.S. multinational firms. I find that after the shock, U.S. multinationals shifted more of… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – End-Stage Renal Disease, Financial Audit of CFPB, FHFA, SEC, GAO Performance, DOD Small Business Subcontracting
End-Stage Renal Disease: Medicare Payment Refinements Could Promote Increased Use of Home Dialysis, GAO-16-125: Published: Oct 15, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 16, 2015. Financial Audit: Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s Fiscal Years 2015 and 2014 Financial Statements, GAO-16-96R: Published: Nov 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 16, 2015. Financial Audit: Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Fiscal Years… Continue Reading
A Tale of Two States: Rule of Law in the Age of Terrorism
De Minico, Giovanna, A Tale of Two States: Rule of Law in the Age of Terrorism (November 2, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2685142 “The European counter terrorism laws offer to the author the chance to deal with on one side the appropriate balance between the threat of terrorism and constitutional values; on the… Continue Reading
On the Efficiency of the Common Law: An Application to the Recovery of Rewards
Niblett, Anthony, On the Efficiency of the Common Law: An Application to the Recovery of Rewards (November 12, 2015). European Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2691548 “Richard Posner’s influence on the field of law and economics cannot be overstated. Among his many contributions, Posner offered an early conjecture that… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The True Measure of Bitcoin’s Success
Via LLRX.com – The True Measure of Bitcoin’s Success – This commentary by financial analyst Ryan Davis supports the position that the price of Bitcoin should not be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin, nor should any one metric be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin. The true measure of the state… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report
Via LLRX.com: Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report – Financial analyst Ryan Davis describes the landscape of exchanges based in and outside of the U.S. that have begun to offer trading in bitcoin derivatives. TeraExchange completed the first bitcoin derivative trade on a regulated exchange in the U.S. on October 8, 2014 with its Bitcoin… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen
Via LLRX.com – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen – In Part 4 of a 5 Part series, Librarian and Educator Lorette Weldon focuses on a core issue related to STEM education – high school students are not guaranteed success in college when they have completed college-preparatory courses.… Continue Reading
Searchable Suicide Attack Database
“The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) maintains a searchable database on all suicide attacks from 1982 through June 2015. The database includes information about the location of attacks, the target type, the weapon used, and systematic information on the demographic and general biographical characteristics of suicide attackers. The database expands the breadth of… Continue Reading
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding
Lawson, Stuart and Gray, Jonathan and Mauri, Michele, Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing (November 13, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690570 “”Public access to publicly funded research” has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments… Continue Reading
