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View ArticleVelocimetrics To Significantly Enhance Its Clientâs Capabilities To...
By incorporating machine-learning capabilities, Velocimetrics’ market data quality solution adapts and rebases what “normal” looks like for the thousands of different instruments that are being...
View ArticleTOCOM Renames "Gold Daily" Contract To "Gold Rolling Spot"
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. announced today the renaming of the "Gold Daily" futures contract to "Gold Rolling Spot". The new name better reflects the nature of the contract and no contract...
View ArticleSGX: Trio Of Insurance Plays Averaged Three-Year Returns Of 30%
There are three primary listed Insurance stocks on Singapore exchange (SGX), which are further categorised to the following sub-industries: Life & Health Insurance, Property & Casualty...
View ArticleThe European Stability Mechanism (ESM) To Partially Redistribute Management...
The ESM Management Board has decided to partially redistribute the roles of two of its members. The changes, which will be effective as of 1 April 2016, are in line with the ESM’s commitment to enhance...
View ArticleVolante Technologies supports SWIFT Standards Release 2016
Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages, today announced support for the latest SWIFT Standards...
View ArticleSubsidies and Structure: The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton Program on the...
The hospital industry is one of the most important industries in the U.S., and industry structure can have profound effects on the functioning of markets. Using county-level panel data, we study the...
View ArticleHow Did Pre-Fed Banking Panics End? -- by Gary Gorton, Ellis W. Tallman
How did pre-Fed banking crises end? How did depositors' beliefs change? During the National Banking Era, 1863-1914, banks responded to the severe panics by suspending convertibility, that is, they...
View ArticleDynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength -- by...
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech...
View ArticleBank Quality, Judicial Efficiency and Borrower Runs: Loan Repayment Delays in...
Exposure to liquidity risk makes banks vulnerable to runs from both depositors and from wholesale, short-term investors. This paper shows empirically that banks are also vulnerable to run-like behavior...
View ArticleDoes Fundraising Create New Giving? -- by Jonathan Meer
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising techniques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to...
View ArticleSelf-insuring against Liability Risk: Evidence from Physician Home Values in...
When faced with financial uncertainty, rational agents have incentives to take steps ex ante to reduce the probability (self-protection) or size (self-insurance) of a loss. However, in the case of...
View ArticleHow Does Access to Health Care Affect Teen Fertility and High School Dropout...
Children from low-income families face persistent barriers to accessing high-quality health care services. Previous research studies have examined the importance of expanding children's health...
View ArticleOwning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing...
New Internet-based markets enable consumer/owners to rent out their durable goods when not using them. Such markets are modeled to determine ownership, rental rates, quantities, and surplus generated....
View ArticleHow Crashes Develop: Intradaily Volatility and Crash Evolution -- by David S....
This paper explores whether affine models with volatility jumps estimated on intradaily S&P 500 futures data over 1983-2008 can capture major daily outliers such as the 1987 stock market crash. I...
View ArticlePopular Attitudes towards Markets and Democracy: Russia and United States...
We repeat a survey we did in the waning days of the Soviet Union (Shiller, Boycko and Korobov, AER 1991) comparing attitudes towards free markets between Moscow and New York. Additional survey...
View ArticleDecision-Making under the Gambler's Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges,...
We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court...
View ArticleRestoring Rational Choice: The Challenge of Consumer Financial Regulation --...
This lecture considers the case for consumer financial regulation in an environment where many households lack the knowledge to manage their financial affairs effectively. The lecture argues that...
View ArticleHealth Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France -- by Didier Blanchet, Eve...
France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms...
View ArticleDoes Incomplete Spanning in International Financial Markets Help to Explain...
Compared to the predictions of exchange rate models with complete spanning in financial markets, actual exchange rates are puzzlingly smooth and only weakly correlated with macro-economic fundamentals....
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