Knowledge@Wharton: “Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the bad boys of the financial crisis of 2008, are coming back. CDOs are securities that hold different types of debt, such as mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds, which are then sliced into varying levels of risk and sold to investors. With the Federal Reserve committed to keeping interest rates… Continue Reading
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Researchers invent better single-photon emitter for quantum cryptography
R&D News: “In a development that could make the advanced form of secure communications known as quantum cryptography more practical, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques. Single-photon emitters release one particle of light, or photon, at a time, as opposed… Continue Reading
McKinsey: Innovators are using big data and analytics to sharpen risk assessment and drive revenue
How advanced analytics are redefining banking: “In search of growth, banks are increasingly analyzing the massive amounts of data they collect to sharpen their decision-making processes. In a new video interview, on mckinsey.com, McKinsey director Toos Daruvala explains how three banks are applying analytics in different ways to gain a competitive edge… Three related articles,… Continue Reading
Careers in the growing field of information technology services
Careers in the growing field of information technology services, by Lauren Csorny. April 2013 “Computers and information technology (IT) touch nearly every aspect of modern life. Information technology can help with such diverse tasks as driving motor vehicles and diagnosing diseases. IT enables seamless integration and communication between businesses anywhere in the world. To keep… Continue Reading
BLS – A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011 [April 2013] “In 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 46.2 million people, or 15.0 percent of the nations population, lived below the official poverty level. Although the poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, according to… Continue Reading
CDC – Percentage of Adults Who Often Felt Very Tired or Exhausted in the Past 3 Months
QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Often Felt Very Tired or Exhausted in the Past 3 Months, by Sex and Age Group – National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2010-2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), April 12, 2013. Continue Reading
What Can We Learn by Disaggregating the Unemployment – Vacancy Relationship?
What Can We Learn by Disaggregating the Unemployment-Vacancy Relationship?, Public Policy Brief No. 12-3, by Rand Ghayad and William Dickens, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 2012. “The Beveridge curvethe empirical relationship between unemployment and job vacanciesis thought to be an indicator of the efficiency of the functioning of the labor market. Normally, when job… Continue Reading
Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research
“The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today issued its report concerning federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers, concluding that current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk. In its report, Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research, the Commission also recommended 14 changes to current practices to better protect research… Continue Reading
Draft Paper – The Political Foundations of Scarce and Unstable Credit
Preliminary Conference Draft – The Political Foundations of Scarce and Unstable Credit, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen Haber, March 2013 – presented April 9, 2013 With respect to banking crises, economists have constructed models capable of explaining such events despite their undesirable consequences but those models cannot explain why the influences they… Continue Reading
Paper – The Downfall of Extroverts and the Rise of Neurotics – The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups
Paper – The Downfall of Extroverts and the Rise of Neurotics – The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups, by Corrine Bendersky and Neha Parikh Shah, Academy of Management Journal, AMJ-2011-0316.R3. “We advance previous research that has associated extraversion with high status and neuroticism with low status in newly-formed task groups by examining… Continue Reading
How Other Companies Manage Social Media (Infographic)
Entrepreneur: “We asked 2,714 communicators how their companies use social media in our Ragan/NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions survey, and Go-Gulf.com highlighted some of the findings in an infographic.” Continue Reading
Book review – The Invisible Playground: Phone Phreaking and the Criminalization of Curiosity
LA Times Book Review by Jason Brown of Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley “Lapsleys book is the definitive history of the Golden Age of phone phreaking in the 1960s and 70s, when these quirks in the system were the basic tools used… Continue Reading
