The Saudi Stock Exchange Announces The Publication Of The Weekly Stock Market...
The total value of shares traded for the week ending 4 February 2016 amounted to SAR 30.57 billion, Increasing by 13.02% over the previous week; while total stock market capitalization reached SAR...
View ArticleIssues with the Smith-Wilson method. (arXiv:1602.02011v1 [q-fin.PR])
The objective of the present paper is to analyse various features of the Smith-Wilson method used for discounting under the EU regulation Solvency II, with special attention to hedging. In particular,...
View ArticleMultiple Wavelet Coherency Analysis and Forecasting of Metal Prices....
The assessment of co-movement among metals is crucial to better understand the behaviors of the metal prices and the interactions with others that affect the changes in prices. In this study, both...
View ArticleMNI India Consumer Sentiment Indicator: India Consumer Confidence Rises In...
Consumer sentiment rose slightly in January as consumers’ willingness to purchase big-ticket items improved, although this contrasted with a further deterioration in their views on personal finances...
View ArticleCorporate Finance Boutiques Merge To Provide Deeper Coverage Of The Growing...
NovitasPartners and FTCL, two boutique corporate finance firms specialising in the fintech sector, today announce their merger to meet the growing demand for corporate finance advisory services from...
View ArticleeWise Launches Its New Aegis Platform At FinovateEurope
eWise, a leading international provider of personal data management solutions, is launching its new product Aegis, the consumer-centric data management platform, at FinovateEurope.read more...
View ArticleTrade Bank Of Iraq (TBI) Selects Misys To Provide World Class Banking Solutions
Misys, the leading financial software company, today announced that it has been selected by Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) as a strategic partner to assist the bank in upgrading to a next generation digital...
View ArticleITG Releases January 2016 U.S. Trading Volumes
NEW YORK, Feb. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent execution broker and financial technology provider, today announced that January 2016 U.S. trading volume was 3.0...
View ArticleThai Bourse Further Promotes Sustainability Among Listed Companies
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has continuously encouraged Thai listed firms to operate businesses with sustainability concerns covering environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects in line...
View ArticleVictory Networks To Offer almax Analytics, Artificial Intelligence For News...
almax analytics, artificial intelligence for capital markets, announced today Victory Networks, global managed services provider for all asset classes, has introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) for...
View ArticleS&P Capital IQ And SNL Unveils New Division Name: S&P Global Market...
Announced today, and effective immediately, S&P Capital IQ and SNL has rebranded as S&P Global Market Intelligence. The division’s new name is a strategic move forward as part of the...
View ArticleFinancial Markets' Views about the Euro-Swiss Franc Floor -- by Urban J. Jermann
Exchange rates and option prices incorporate market participants' views about the credibility and the effects of exchange rate targets. I present a model to determine exchange rates under policy...
View ArticleWork Capacity at Older Ages in the Netherlands -- by Adriaan Kalwij, Arie...
Over the last two decades policy reforms in the Netherlands have increased work incentives, resulting in rising employment rates at older ages. Over the same period health of the population has...
View ArticleGrowth through Rigidity: An Explanation for the Rise in CEO Pay -- by Kelly...
The dramatic rise in CEO compensation during the 1990s and early 2000s is a longstanding puzzle. In this paper, we show that much of the rise can be explained by a tendency of firms to grant the same...
View ArticleChallenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown...
The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators and researchers have suggested that this slowdown is at least in part illusory,...
View ArticleHealth Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Spain -- by Pilar...
In a world with limited PAYGO financing possibilities this paper explores whether older Spanish individuals have the health capacity to work longer. For that purpose we use Milligan-Wise and...
View ArticleHealthy, Happy and Idle: Estimating the Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages...
After two decades of reforms that have tightened eligibility for early retirement and the generosity of social security payments, the German government has begun to turn back time and re-introduce more...
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