Opus Simplifies KYC With New Out-Of-The-Box SaaS Solution
Compliance and Risk Management SaaS technology leader Opus announced today the launch of Alacra Compliance Professional (ACP), the new plug-and-play KYC (Know Your Customer) compliance solution. ACP is...
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange Welcomes Fidelity International As New ETF Issuer
London Stock Exchange today welcomes Fidelity International as the latest ETF issuer on its market. The two ETFs* listed today in London are the first Fidelity International has issued in Europe and...
View ArticleBats Europe Expands BXTR To Offer Buy-Side Trade Reporting Services
Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced it has expanded its trade reporting facility, BXTR, to offer a new service that enables...
View ArticleEuronext And Intercontinental Exchange Sign Agreement For Derivatives Clearing
Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, announces it has signed a binding heads of terms with ICE Clear Netherlands, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) for the...
View ArticleIntesa Sanpaolo Selects Bloomberg IFRS 9 SPPI Data To Streamline Adoption Of...
Bloomberg announced today that Intesa Sanpaolo, the Italian banking group, is using accounting data from Bloomberg to comply with the International Financial Reporting Standard 9, known as IFRS 9, an...
View ArticleAl Mawared Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report March 26 – March 30, 2017
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View ArticleMoscow Exchange Index Committee Decisions
On 24 March 2017, the Index Committee of Moscow Exchange decided to recommend that the Exchange set the following free float coefficients:read more...
View ArticleNew Blockchain Research Firm Chain Business Insights Publishes Debut eBook:...
Chain Business Insights, an independent research firm focused on the application of blockchain for supply chain management and trade finance, has announced the launch of its membership services. It has...
View ArticleUnderestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income and Productivity --...
The problems involved in estimating real output that I discuss in this paper cause the official government statistics to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and...
View ArticleAsset Allocation in Bankruptcy -- by Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Ben...
This paper investigates the consequences of liquidation and reorganization on the allocation and subsequent utilization of assets in bankruptcy. Using the random assignment of judges to bankruptcy...
View ArticleThe Formation of Expectations, Inflation and the Phillips Curve -- by Olivier...
This paper argues for a careful (re)consideration of the expectations formation process and a more systematic inclusion of real-time expectations through survey data in macroeconomic analyses. While...
View ArticleSubrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses...
The theory of insurance is considered here when an insured individual may be able to sue another party for the losses that the insured suffered--and thus when an insured has a potential source of...
View ArticleFinancial Intermediary Capital -- by Adriano A. Rampini, S. Viswanathan
We propose a dynamic theory of financial intermediaries that are better able to collateralize claims than households, that is, have a collateralization advantage. Intermediaries require capital as they...
View ArticleRoots of Autocracy -- by Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across...
View ArticleWhat Drives Differences in Management? -- by Nicholas Bloom, Erik...
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with...
View ArticleChannels of Impact: User Reviews when Quality is Dynamic and Managers Respond...
We examine the effect of managerial response on consumer voice in a dynamic quality environment. We argue that, in this environment, the consumer is motivated to write reviews by, in addition to...
View ArticleIdentification of and Correction for Publication Bias -- by Isaiah Andrews,...
Some empirical results are more likely to be published than others. Such selective publication leads to biased estimators and distorted inference. This paper proposes two approaches for identifying the...
View ArticleSeeing and Hearing: The Impacts of New York City's Universal Prekindergarten...
Prior research suggests that high quality universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs can generate lifetime benefits, but the mechanisms generating these effects are not well-understood. In 2014, New...
View ArticleThe Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers -- by M. Keith Chen,...
Participation in flexible contract work has increased dramatically over the last decade, often in settings where new technologies lower the transaction costs of providing labor flexibly. One prominent...
View ArticleCitywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the...
In cities worldwide, the widespread use of single occupancy cars often leads to traffic congestion and its associated ill effects. Using high frequency data from Google Maps, we test whether...
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