Al-Maghzom, Abdullah and Hussainey, Khaled and Aly, Doaa A, Value Relevance of Voluntary Risk Disclosure Levels: Evidence from Saudi Banks (April 15, 2016). Al-Maghzom , A. , Hussainey, K. and Aly, D. (2016). Value relevance of voluntary risk disclosure levels: Evidence from Saudi banks. Journal of Accounting and Taxation, Volume 8, Number 1. Available at… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2016
CBO’s Contributions to Fiscal Transparency
“On April 12, 2016, CBO Deputy Director Robert Sunshine presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of OECD Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) defines fiscal transparency as the full disclosure of all relevant fiscal information in a timely and systematic manner. Each year, CBO produces numerous… Continue Reading
WSJ graphic – how much does it cos to produce a barrel of oil?
Barrel Breakdown – The cost of producing a barrel of oil and gas varies widely across the world, setting up winners and losers as the price of crude fluctuates at historically low levels. See also via New York Times – Major Oil Exporters Fail to Agree on Production Freeze – “A freeze would have involved… Continue Reading
Search Engine expert reviews biggest changes in past 20 years
Danny Sullivan: “Today is my 20th anniversary of covering search and search engines. To mark the occasion, I wanted to reflect on some of the big changes that I’ve seen over the past two decades of covering the space.” Continue Reading
Poynter Pulitzer Preview – survey of the most impressive journalism from 2015
Via Roy J. Harris Jr.: “The favorites are based on what’s been honored by other press contests in the weeks leading up to Pulitzers — the most revered of U.S. awards and the oldest, celebrating their centennial this year. I’ll also focus on the reporting-based categories — for the most part setting aside photojournalism, commentary, criticism… Continue Reading
Electionline – election reform news and information
“electionline.org is the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information. It was founded in 2001 by Doug Chapin and supported by a grant to the University of Richmond from The Pew Charitable Trusts. In 2007 the electionline team formally joined The Pew Charitable Trusts as part of Pew’s transition from private… Continue Reading
District court rules in favor of library e-reserve against publishers
Inside HigherEd: “A U.S. district court judge has once again taken a look at three publishers’ case against Georgia State University’s e-reserve and ruled that, in 41 of 48 cases, no copyright infringement took place. The ruling, a 220-page walk-through that applies the four-part fair-use test to each of the 48 cases, is seen by… Continue Reading
Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology
“Handbok of the Birds of the World Alive [HBW Alive] has been created by Lynx Edicions, a publishing house founded in Barcelona, Spain, in 1989, and committed to providing high quality ornithology and natural history books. Foremost among these is the Handbook of the Birds of the World, a 17-volume encyclopaedia that describes and illustrates… Continue Reading
2016 edition of World Development Indicators is available
Via World Bank Data Blog – “The 2016 edition of World Development Indicators is out: three features you won’t want to miss. We’re excited to announce the release of the 2016 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI). With over 1 million downloads last year, WDI is the most widely used dataset in our Open Data… Continue Reading
U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking – 2015 Annual Progress Assessment
Via DOJ: “The escalation of wildlife trafficking in recent years poses an urgent threat to conservation and global security. African elephant populations have declined by about 20 percent in the last decade to just over 400,000, and one out of every twenty wild rhinos was killed by a poacher in the last year alone. Well-armed… Continue Reading
Saving Government Email an Open Question with December 2016 Deadline Looming
Via National Security Archive: “The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Department of the Treasury’s Comptroller, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are among a handful of agencies that have already admitted they will not meet the December 31, 2016, deadline for electronic management of official government email – like Hillary Clinton’s – in their mandatory,… Continue Reading
9/11 Families, the 28 Pages, and economic threats if Congress passes bill on monetary damages
When I returned home the evening of the 9/11 attack from my office in Washington, DC I joined colleagues throughout the legal community who stayed up for days sharing every bit of information we could obtain about the status of those who worked in the Twin Towers, Pentagon and in the plane that crashed in… Continue Reading
