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  Data - Journal Vol. 11

•  Letter from Rob Heyvaert
•  Letter from Shahin Shojai, Editor

THE NOBEL LAUREATE VIEW

•   The world of economic data A discussion with Prof. Paul Samuelson
  
  Institute Professor, Emeritus; Professor of Economics, Emeritus;
  Gordon Y. Billard Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Winner of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970

ECONOMICS

•   The impossibility of accurate macro-economic forecasting (Opinion)
  
  Paul Ormerod, Director, Volterra Consulting
•   Revisions to GDP and related estimates
  
  Dennis Fixler, Chief Statistician, Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Bruce Grimm, Economist, Bureau of Economic Analysis
•   The reliability of quarterly national accounts in seven major countries A users perspective
  
  Robert York, Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund
  Paul Atkinson, Deputy Director, the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
•   The effect of telecom density data on growth, efficiencies, and distributions in global economies
  
  Lall Ramrattan, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
  Frank DiMeglio, Consultant, Macrosoft Company
  Michael Szenberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Pace University

FINANCIAL

•   Corporate action processing Complexity and risk (Opinion)
  
  James Femia, Managing Director, Asset Services, DTCC
  Gunnar Niels, Economist, Oxera Consulting Ltd.
•   What lies beneath (Opinion)
  
  Lars Hamich, Managing Director, STOXX Ltd.
•   Hedge fund indices (Opinion)
  
  James R. Hedges, IV, President & Chief Investment Officer, LJH Global Investments
•   Data management in financials services 2004 and beyond (Opinion)
  
  Andy Dilkes, Chief Technology Officer, Unity Systems
•   Integrated data architecture The end game (Opinion)
  
  Predrag Dizdarevic, Partner, Capco
  Shahin Shojai, Director of Strategic Research, Capco
•   Reference data primer
  
  Marilyn Hignett, Partner, Capco
•   Data in financial institutions
  
  Richard McLaughlin, Solicitor, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Department, Nabarro Nathanson solicitors
•   Data mining in finance From extremes to realism
  
  Boris Kovalerchuk, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Central Washington University
  Evgenii Vityaev, Senior Scientist, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

ENTERPRISE

•   The legal assault against marketing (Opinion)
  
  Kirk Herath, Chief Privacy Officer, Associate General Counsel, Nationwide Insurance Companies
•   Who owns the customer Who owns the data (Opinion)
  
  Keith MacDonald, Partner, Capco
  Mark Dynes, Managing Principal, Capco
•   Privacy challenges (Opinion)
  
  Ray Everett-Church, Principal and Chief Privacy Officer, ePrivacy Group, LLC
•   Data quality management How to produce high quality reports for risk management (Opinion)
  
  Barbara Boos, IT Manager, Risk Applications, European Investment Bank
•   The fourth leg of the stool Data protection (Opinion)
  
  John P. Rosato, CEO, CS Technology
•   Steady progress But could do better (Opinion)
  
  Peyman Mestchian, Director, Risk Management Practice, SAS UK
•   The shift to web services (Opinion)
  
  Kurt Gilman, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  Shawn Connors, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers
•   A user-centric approach to effective enterprise data services
  
  Gopi Chelliah, Chief Information Officer, Cross-Business Technology & Operations, Deutsche Bank AG
•   Extracting the business value of IT It is usage, not just deployment that counts
  
  Donald A. Marchand, Professor of Strategy and Information Management, IMD and Chairman and President of enterpriseIQ
•   Taking snapshots of the Internet New database of insider transactions and liquidity
  
  Steven M. Benveniste, Researcher, The Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, The Anderson School, UCLA
  Duke K. Bristow, Financial Economist, The Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, The Anderson School, UCLA
  Alfred E. Osborne, Jr, Director of The Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Associate Professor of Business Economics,
  The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
•   The informational role of financial analysts Interpreting public disclosures
  
  Donal Byard, Assistant Professor, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York
  Kenneth W. Shaw, Associate Professor, Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Fellow, College of Business, University of Missouri