Corporate Tax Expenditures – Information on Estimated Revenue Losses and Related Federal Spending Programs, GAO-13-339, Mar 18, 2013 President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief – Per-Patient Costs Have Declined Substantially, but Better Cost Data Would Help Efforts to Expand Treatment, GAO-13-345, Mar 15, 2013 Continue Reading
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Report – Google vs. Bing: Search Engines Deliver Infected Websites as Their Top Results
Markus Selinger: “A detailed AV-TEST study recently revealed that although search engine operators such as Google and Bing make a lot of effort to avoid doing so, they sometimes deliver websites infected with Trojans and similar malware among their top search results. Other search engines do an even worse job. Malware developers are now putting… Continue Reading
EIA – Annual Energy Outlook 2013
“The projections in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2012) focus on the factors that shape the U.S. energy system over the long term. Under the assumption that current laws and regulations remain unchanged throughout the projections, the AEO2013 Reference case provides the basis for examination and discussion of energy production,… Continue Reading
Next Stop, Innovation: Whats Ahead for Urban Mobility?
Next Stop, Innovation: Whats Ahead for Urban Mobility? “Transportation in the 21st century is entering a robust phase that mirrors the early years of the automobile, when gasoline, steam and electric technology vied for market share. Although electric cars led for a while, the internal-combustion engine reached dominance by 1920, with profound effects on American… Continue Reading
April 2013 Update to TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery
Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda: “The global economic recovery remains stuck below takeoff speed, unable to achieve liftoff and facing the risk of stalling. Half-hearted fiscal austerity measures are proving to be a drag on growth, and monetary policy continues to shoulder the burden of limiting downside risks. The Brookings-FT TIGER index shows that growth… Continue Reading
EUA Report on Global University Rankings in 2012
Global University Rankings and Their Impact II, published by the European University Association “New multi-indicator tools for profiling, classifying or benchmarking higher education institutions offered by the rankings providers are proliferating. These increase the pressure on and the risk of overburdening universities, obliged to collect ever more data in order to maintain as high a… Continue Reading
Reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000
CRS – Reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, Katie Hoover, Analyst in Natural Resources Policy. February 26, 2013 “Many counties are compensated for the tax-exempt status of federal lands. Counties with national forest lands and with certain Bureau of Land Management lands have historically received a percentage of agency revenues,… Continue Reading
Intervention-Driven Changes in Social Networks and Their Effects on Household Outcomes
Comola, Margherita and Prina, Silvia, Intervention-Driven Changes in Social Networks and Their Effects on Household Outcomes (April 14, 2013). Available at SSRN “We study how social networks change as a result of an exogenous expansion in formal financial access and show how to estimate the effects of these changes on household outcomes. We use a… Continue Reading
Revisit Zero Inflation Policy: Feasible or Mirage?
Tian, Ruilin, Revisit Zero Inflation Policy: Feasible or Mirage? (April 4, 2013). Journal of Macroeconomic Dynamics Research, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN “This paper revisits the zero inflation policy in the post Great Recession period to bring the most updated facts about the effectiveness of the policy in the United States. We analyze the major benefits… Continue Reading
OECD – Machine-to-Machine Communications Connecting Billions of Devices You or your institution
Machine-to-Machine Communications – Connecting Billions of Devices, Publication Date, 30 Jan 2012. Bibliographic information No.: 192 Pages. 45. DOI 10.1787/5k9gsh2gp043-en “This document examines the future of machine-to-machine communication (M2M), with a particular focus on mobile wireless networks. M2M devices are defined, in this paper, as those that are actively communicating using wired and wireless networks,… Continue Reading
World military spending falls, but China, Russias spending rises, says SIPRI
News release: “World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011, according to figures released today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database is accessible here. The fallthe first since 1998was driven by major spending… Continue Reading
ACLU – Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
“On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are unconstitutional and invalid. On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear argument on the patentability of human genes [via SCOTUSblog]. The… Continue Reading
