Google Maps Blog: “If you’ve ever wondered which trails Lewis & Clark traveled for their famous expedition, or looked for maps of the best schools in your region, you may have found yourself scouring the web without much luck. The best results for your search may come from governments, nonprofits and businesses, but historically that information has been hard… Continue Reading
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2014 edition of the European Foreign Policy Scorecard
“The European Foreign Policy Scorecard is an innovative project that provides a systematic annual assessment of Europe’s performance in dealing with the rest of the world. The scorecard assesses the performance of the EU institutions on 80 policy areas arranged around six key themes.” Continue Reading
Confidence Bands for Impulse Responses: Bonferroni versus Wald
Luetkepohl, Helmut and Staszewska-Bystrova, Anna and Winker, Peter, Confidence Bands for Impulse Responses: Bonferroni versus Wald (February 20, 2014). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4634. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2404896 “In impulse response analysis estimation uncertainty is typically displayed by constructing bands around estimated impulse response functions. These bands may be based on frequentist or Bayesian… Continue Reading
Agencies Issue Final Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test Guidance for Medium-Sized Firms
“Three federal bank regulatory agencies are issuing final guidance describing supervisory expectations for stress tests conducted by financial companies with total consolidated assets between $10 billion and $50 billion. These medium-sized companies are required to conduct annual, company-run stress tests under rules issued by the agencies in October 2012 to implement a provision in the Dodd-Frank… Continue Reading
The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2013
Eagan, K., Lozano, J. B., Hurtado, S., & Case, M. H. (2013). The American freshman: National norms. Fall 2013. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA. “Financial considerations are exerting an ever-greater influence on incoming freshman in the U.S., with college costs and financial aid playing an increasingly decisive role in their school-selection process, according… Continue Reading
Covering the Extractives Industry: Big Data, New Tools, and Journalism
“This paper by ANYA SCHIFFRIN AND ERIKA RODRIGUES was presented during the professor’s track at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in October 2013 in Rio De Janeiro. The extractives sector (oil, gas, and mining) continues to be an important subject for journalists, particularly in developing countries. Revenues from oil, gas and mining contribute substantially to GDP and in many… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – E-Record Health Programs, Nuclear Proliferation, 2013 Sequestration, VA Health Care
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD PROGRAMS: Participation Has Increased, but Action Needed to Achieve Goals, Including Improved Quality of Care, GAO-14-207: Published: Mar 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 6, 2014. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION: Stronger Planning and Evaluation Needed for Radiological Security Zone Pilot Project, GAO-14-209: Published: Mar 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 6, 2014. 2013 SEQUESTRATION: Agencies Reduced Some Services and Investments, While… Continue Reading
Report – Traffic Congestion Is Growing Three Times As Fast As U.S. Economy
Richard Read – The Car Connection – “When it comes to predicting and tracking traffic trends, INRIX is the go-to authority. The company says that traffic congestion surged in 2013, growing over three times as fast as the U.S. economy. According to INRIX, traffic in the U.S. reversed two consecutive years of declines with a six… Continue Reading
Results of the Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2013
“This report presents the results of the Basel Committee’s Basel III monitoring exercise. The study is based on the rigorous reporting processes set up by the Committee to periodically review the implications of the Basel III standards for financial markets. The results of previous exercises in this series were published in September 2013, March 2013, September 2012 and April 2012. A total of 227… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board Beige Book – March 5, 2014
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District “Reports from most of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic conditions continued to expand from January to early February. Eight Districts reported improved levels of activity, but in most cases the increases were characterized as modest to moderate. New York and Philadelphia… Continue Reading
Global liquidity: where it stands, and why it matters
Global liquidity: where it stands, and why it matters. IMFS Distinguished Lecture by Mr Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 5 March 2014. “These remarks apply the concepts of global liquidity and the financial cycle to analyse developments in the global financial system in the past decade… Continue Reading
Restoring confidence in banks
Restoring confidence in banks. Keynote address by Mr Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, to the 15th Annual Convention of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, New York, 4 March 2014. “The financial crisis, which began seven years ago, was in essence a collapse in confidence. It stress-tested… Continue Reading
