Sunday, January 22, 2012

Are Rating Agencies Powerful? An Investigation into the Impact and Accuracy of Sovereign Ratings

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Are Rating Agencies Powerful? An Investigation into the Impact and Accuracy of Sovereign Ratings. By John Kiff, Sylwia Nowak, and Liliana S...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Oil-price shocks have had substantial and statistically significant effects during the last 25 years

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Measuring Oil-Price Shocks Using Market-Based Information. By Tao Wu & Michele Cavallo IMF Working Paper No. 12/19 January 01, 2012 ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Volatility, rather than abundance per se, drives the "resource curse" paradox

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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth. By Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes, and Mehdi Raissi IMF Working Paper No....
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

CPSS-IOSCO's Requirements for OTC derivatives data reporting and aggregation: final report

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Requirements for OTC derivatives data reporting and aggregation: CPSS-IOSCO publishes final report January 17, 2012 http://www.bis.org/pr...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

The sustainability of pension schemes

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The sustainability of pension schemes, by Srichander Ramaswamy BIS Working Papers No 368 http://www.bis.org/publ/work368.htm Abstract ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

BCBS: Application of own credit risk adjustments to derivatives - consultative document

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Application of own credit risk adjustments to derivatives - Basel Committee consultative document December 21, 2011 http://www.bis.org/pre...

2011: A Year of Important Pharmacological Advances for Patients

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2011: A Year of Important Pharmacological Advances for Patients December 21, 2011 http://www.innovation.org/index.cfm/NewsCenter/Newslette...

BCBS: revised "Core principles for effective banking supervision" - consultative paper

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Consultative paper on revised "Core principles for effective banking supervision" issued by the Basel Committee December 20, 2011 ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

BCBS: Proposed regulatory capital disclosure requirements

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Proposed regulatory capital disclosure requirements issued by the Basel Committee December 19, 2011 http://www.bis.org/press/p111219a.h...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Joint Forum: Consultative paper on "Principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates"

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Consultative paper on "Principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates" released by the Joint Forum December 19, 2011 ...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Bank Competition and Financial Stability: A General Equilibrium Exposition

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Bank Competition and Financial Stability: A General Equilibrium Exposition. By Gianni De Nicolo' & Marcella Lucchetta IMF Working P...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

BCBS: The internal audit function in banks - consultative document

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The internal audit function in banks - consultative document The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, December 2, 2011 The Basel Committe...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Over 900 Biotechnology Medicines in Development, Targeting More than 100 Diseases

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Over 900 Biotechnology Medicines in Development, Targeting More than 100 Diseases September 14, 2011 http://www.innovation.org/index.cfm/F...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Has the global banking system become more fragile over time?

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Has the global banking system become more fragile over time? By Deniz Anginer & Asli Demirguc-Kunt http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external...

President Obama can't win by running a constructive campaign, and he won't be able to govern if he does win a second term

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The Hillary Moment. By Patrick H Caddell & Douglas E Schoen President Obama can't win by running a constructive campaign, and he won...