by Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be “too much” finance. In particular, our results suggest that …
The Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-term Decision Making
Click here to download the report (PDF) by John Kay for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, UK, July 2012 “Financial intermediation depends on trust and confidence: the trust and confidence that savers who invest funds have in those they choose to manage these funds, and the trust and …
The JOBS Act – Transforming the Financial Markets
New Legislation, New Markets, New Opportunities LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR NOWSTREET’S EXCLUSIVE EVOLVING CAPITAL MARKETS COCKTAIL EVENT IN NYC ON JULY 30th ONLY A FEW TICKETS REMAIN! The JOBS ACT is reshaping our financial markets. Learn how to raise capital and maximize returns in a transforming market structure. Discuss …
CEQ and ACCO Announce Program Sessions for 2012 GreenGov Symposium
Session Topics Announced for 2012 GreenGov Symposium Confirmed Speakers Posted Over the Next Few Weeks Click here to register now. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) have announced the session topics for this year?s GreenGov Symposium ? Leading by Example. Over …
How the Affordable Care Act works and more headlines from the American Sustainable Business Council
Weekly Policy Update: July 24, 2012 Events HHS Webinar Join us on August 6th at 3:00 EST for a discussion featuring guest Sol Ross, Business Director at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He will detail how the Affordable Care Act works and participate in a Q&A session. …
Earth Policy Release – World in Serious Trouble on Food Front
Lester R. Brown http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2012/update104 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update July 24, 2012 In the early spring of 2012, U.S. farmers were on their way to planting some 96 million acres in corn, the most in 75 years. A warm early spring got the crop off to a great start. …
Investors and analysts use extra-financial information in decision-making, suggests new research
The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and Radley Yeldar For immediate release Wednesday 25 July 2012 Investors and analysts use extra-financial information in decision-making, suggests new research Investors and analysts use extra-financial information reported by companies to help analyze the performance of those companies …
Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up the Big Banks
A bomb shell for the financial industry: former Citigroup chief Sanford Weill says break-up the too big to fail banks. ~ Hazel Henderson, editor Former Citigroup Chairman & CEO Sanford I. Weill, the man who invented the financial supermarket, called for the breakup of big banks in an interview on …
Backyard Biomimicry Workshop a Benefit to the Region
Safety becomes focus Flagler, 7-Eleven projects head to commission Safety – traffic congestion at the site of a proposed 7-Eleven convenience store and gas pumps at San Marco and May Street and students crossing Cordova Street to and from a proposed 400-student classroom complex at Cuna and Cordova streets – …
Global Elite Hiding $21 Trillion from Taxman in Tax Havens
Do you wonder why it’s so hard to pay for adapting to the climate crisis, or what Mitt Romney, et alia, are really up to? Wonder no longer. £13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy Private banks help wealthiest to move cash …