News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released a new study that underscores the high economic toll and societal impact of motor vehicle crashes in the United States. The price tag for crashes comes at a heavy burden for Americans at $871 billion in economic loss and societal… Continue Reading
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2012 Economic Census Industry Series Reports – Pipeline Transportation
“Today the U.S. Census Bureau released additional data from the 2012 Economic Census Industry Series reports, including new data for the transportation sector on pipeline transportation. This data series publishes national statistics for detailed industries as well as information on the product lines sold by or services provided by businesses. The economic census is conducted every five… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Airport Funding, Coast Guard Acquisitions, Defense Health Care, Medicaid, VA Health Care
AIRPORT FUNDING: Aviation Industry Changes Affect Airport Development Costs and Financing, GAO-14-658T: Published: Jun 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 18, 2014. COAST GUARD ACQUISITIONS: Better Information on Performance and Funding Needed to Address Shortfalls, GAO-14-650T: Published: Jun 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 18, 2014. COAST GUARD ACQUISITIONS: Better Information on Performance and Funding Needed to Address Shortfalls, GAO-14-450: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released:… Continue Reading
Measuring Internet congestion: A preliminary report
Via MIT Information Policy Project – Internet scientist David Clark – “The goal of the research described here is to determine the location and extent of congestion in the core of the Internet. In particular, as a first focus, we are interested in whether the interconnections among ISPs, both customer-provider (transit) and ISP-ISP (peering) links, are subject… Continue Reading
OECD Factbook 2014
OECD (2014), OECD Factbook 2014: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/factbook-2014-en “OECD’s dynamic and comprehensive statistical annual showing a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries. For each indicator presented, there is explanatory text including a definition, explanation of long-term trends, and references; a table showing the indicator over a… Continue Reading
The Oxford Handbook on Financial Regulation – draft chapter
Ferrarini, Guido A. and Saguato, Paolo, Regulating Financial Market Infrastructures (June 1, 2014). Forthcoming draft chapter, The Oxford Handbook on Financial Regulation, edited by Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne, (Oxford University Press).; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Law Working Paper No. 259/2014. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2450095 “This paper focuses on the… Continue Reading
Community Fiber in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco
“This report provides detailed accounts of planning carried out in connection with community fiber networks in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA. It includes information about existing fiber assets that the cities identified, funding mechanisms that were considered, and roadblocks that were encountered. Our hope is that this report will be helpful to… Continue Reading
Impact of Fed Tapering Announcements on Emerging Markets
IMF Working Paper. Prachi Mishra ; Kenji Moriyama; Papa M’B. P. N’Diaye; Lam Nguyen. June 17, 2017. “This paper analyzes market reactions to the 2013–14 Fed announcements relating to tapering of asset purchases and their relationship to macroeconomic fundamentals and country economic and financial structures. The study uses daily data on exchange rates, government bond… Continue Reading
A Simple and Reliable Way to Compute Option-Based Risk-Neutral Distributions
Allan M. Malz: “This paper describes a method for computing risk-neutral density functions based on the option-implied volatility smile. Its aim is to reduce complexity and provide cookbook-style guidance through the estimation process. The technique is robust and avoids violations of option no-arbitrage restrictions that can lead to negative probabilities and other implausible results. I give… Continue Reading
How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally
The Commonwealth Fund: “The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the… Continue Reading
New Way to Look at Law, With Data Viz and Machine Learning
Wired – [snipped] “As its creators [Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed] see it, Ravel’s visual search offers myriad improvements over the old columns of text results. It better lets you see how cases evolved over time, and potentially lets you see outliers that could be useful in crafting an argument–cases that would languish at the… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Combatting Terrorism, Recovery Act, Sequestration
COMBATING TERRORISM: State Department Can Improve Management of East Africa Program, GAO-14-502: Published: Jun 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2014. RECOVERY ACT: USDA Should Include Broadband Program’s Impact in Annual Performance Reports, GAO-14-511: Published: Jun 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2014. SEQUESTRATION: Comprehensive and Updated Cost Savings Would Better Inform DOD Decision Makers If Future Civilian Furloughs Occur, GAO-14-529: Published: Jun 17,… Continue Reading
