Postsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in 2012-13; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2011-12; and 12-Month Enrollment: 2011-12: First Look (Provisional Data): “This First Look report is a revised version of the preliminary report released on May 21, 2013. It includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall… Continue Reading
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The SEC’s Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter
The Glass Boardroom: The SEC’s Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter, Tamara Smallman, Independent, June 27, 2013 – Columbia Business Law Review, Winter 2013, Forthcoming “This Note explores the current status of gender diversity disclosures under the SEC’s 2009 Proxy Disclosure Enhancements. It draws on data compiled from the 2012 Fortune… Continue Reading
Pew – Climate Change and Financial Instability Seen as Top Global Threats
“Publics around the world are concerned about the effect of global climate change and international financial instability, with majorities in many of the nations surveyed saying these are major threats to their countries. But Islamic extremism is also a serious concern, particularly in the United States, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. In contrast, relatively few consider… Continue Reading
Global Risks Report 2013
“The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a survey of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia. This year’s findings show that the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges. The report highlights wealth gaps (severe income… Continue Reading
Relationship and Transaction Lending in a Crisis
Relationship and Transaction Lending in a Crisis by Patrick Bolton, Xavier Freixas, Leonardo Gambacorta and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli – Working Papers No 417, July 2013 “We study how relationship lending and transaction lending vary over the business cycle. We develop a model in which relationship banks gather information on their borrowers, which allows them to provide loans for profitable firms during a crisis. Due… Continue Reading
Should monetary policy lean against the wind? – an analysis based on a DSGE model with banking
Should monetary policy lean against the wind? – an analysis based on a DSGE model with banking by Leonardo Gambacorta and Federico M Signoretti – Working Papers No 418, July 2013 “The global financial crisis has reaffirmed the importance of financial factors for macroeconomic fluctuations. Recent work has shown how the conventional pre-crisis prescription that monetary policy should pay no attention to… Continue Reading
Holding Distribution Utilities Liable for Outage Costs: An Economic Look
Holding Distribution Utilities Liable for Outage Costs: An Economic Look – Timothy J. Brennan – Resources for the Future – July 5, 2013. Resources for the Future DP 13-16, July 2013 “Storm-related service outages in electricity and telecommunications have created public controversies regarding the adequacy of ex ante efforts to prevent outages and ex post… Continue Reading
Coaltion of Good Government Groups Urge US Attorney General to Release Reports on Telephone Surveillance
“[On July 8, 2013] the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), along with 22 other good-government groups, sent a letter to the US Department of Justice urging Attorney General Eric Holder to make public any reports by Inspector General Michael Horowitz regarding the collection of Americans’ telephone records under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act.… Continue Reading
Transforming Our Conversation of Information Architecture with Structure
Transforming Our Conversation of Information Architecture with Structure by Nathaniel Davis “Information architecture has been characterized as both an art and a science. Because there’s more evidence of the former than the latter, the academic and research community is justified in hesitating to give the practice of information architecture more attention. If you probe the… Continue Reading
Foreign Surveillance and the Future of Standing to Sue Post- Clapper
CRS – Foreign Surveillance and the Future of Standing to Sue Post-Clapper – Andrew Nolan, Legislative Attorney, July 10, 2013 “Recent news accounts (and government responses to those news accounts) have indicated that the government is reportedly engaged in a surveillance program that gathers vast amounts of data, including records regarding the phone calls, emails,… Continue Reading
CRS – Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress
Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress – Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces; Paul K. Kerr, Analyst in Nonproliferation, July 9, 2013 “Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground-launched weapons that release a number of smaller submunitions intended to kill enemy personnel or destroy vehicles. Cluster munitions were developed in World War II and… Continue Reading
UN World Drug Report 2013
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: United Nations, 2013 World Drug Report, May 2013 “The findings of the World Drug Report 2013 deliver important lessons for the forthcoming high-level review of the commitments that countries reaffirmed in 2009 on the measures for drug control. These measures are laid out in the Political Declaration and… Continue Reading
