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Data archiving at the US Central Bank

As the central bank of the United States of America, the Federal Reserve System consumes vast quantities of economic, financial, and organization structural data. These data are used for making monetary policy, conducting banking supervision, performing economic research, and implementing consumer protection policies. The focus of this paper is on micro data archived at the Board of Governors o...

Blood bank information systems.

Suzanne Butch, CLDir(NCA), Hal We i n e r, Raymond Aller, MD I with the new and out with a few may be a good way to describe today’s blood bank software market. Some vendors have introduced new or modified software during the past year or so, among them SCC Soft Computer’s new donor system, SoftDonor, and Psyche Systems’ Systematic Blood Bank-Hosted Transfusion System. And a few vendors have su...

US Politics and World Bank IDA-Lending

This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993 200...

Stress Tests and Bank Portfolio Choice∗

How informative should bank stress tests be? I use Bayesian persuasion to formalize stress tests and show that regulators can reduce the likelihood of a bank run by performing tests which are only partially informative. Optimal stress tests give just enough failing grades to keep passing grades credible enough to avoid runs. The worse the state of the banking system, the more stringent stress t...

Rare blood challenges blood bank and patients.