Congress probes NIH stimulus funds

US health officials press Congress for Zika funds.

Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has called on Congress to move quickly to appropriate funds to support the government’s response to the Zika virus disease epidemic. Frieden, who had returned from touring the US territory of Puerto Rico, where an outbreak of Zika infections was ongoing, told reporters that funding was “crucially important and urgently ...

Stimulus funds force hard look at comparative effectiveness research.

T wo much-anticipated national reports on comparative effectiveness research appeared at the end of June, a first step toward spending the economic stimulus funds intended to compare different medical interventions, improve medical care, and ultimately help contain health care costs. Of the $1.1 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated to comparative effectiveness researc...

Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority may receive greater funds if majority-party legislators have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions with each other. Funding types received by districts may depend on their legislators’ party identity when party preferences differ. Estimates from the United States, using fixedeffect and regression-discontinu...

Hedge Funds, Funds-of-Funds, and Commodity Trading Advisors

The World of Funds of Funds

** Prof. Svetlozar T. Rachev (Corresponding Author): Institute for Statistics and Mathematical Economics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany & Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. // Chair of Econometrics, Statistics and Mathematical Finance, School of Economics and Business Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Kollegium am Schloss, Bau ...