Advice for First-Year College Students
It's that time of year... here's a blog post from several years ago regarding advice for first-year college students. Starting College: Words of Advice1. Pick your faculty, not just your courses. Ten...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority: An Announcement Of The Issuance Of...
As part of CMA's continuous efforts to ensure clarity of the Implementing Regulations of the Capital Market Law to help market participants to recognize their duties, responsibilities and rights, which...
View ArticleThe Saudi Stock Exchange Announces The Publication Of The Weekly Stock Market...
The total value of shares traded for the week ending 1 September 2016 amounted to SAR 12.58 billion, decreasing by 5.42% over the previous week; while total stock market capitalization reached SAR...
View ArticleNZX August 2016 Shareholder Metrics
Please find the August 2016 shareholder metrics attached.read more...
View ArticleNumerical solution of a semilinear parabolic degenerate...
We consider a semilinear parabolic degenerated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with singularity which is related to a stochastic control problem with fuel constraint. The fuel constraint...
View ArticleAre Order Anticipation Strategies Harmful? A Theoretical Approach....
High frequency traders employ order anticipation strategies to benefit from price impact generated by large institutional investors. While there is little doubt that this practice increases execution...
View ArticleOn Jensen's inequality for generalized Choquet integral with an application...
In the paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the Jensen inequality to hold for the generalized Choquet integral with respect to a pair of capacities. Next, we apply obtained result to...
View ArticleDoes Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility?...
The prevalent view in the economics literature is that a high level of infrastructure investment is a precursor to economic growth. China is especially held up as a model to emulate. Based on the...
View ArticleTokyo Stock Exchange: Registered On The Lead Managing Underwriter List Of...
Today, Tokyo Stock Exchange registered Daiwa Capital Markets Singapore Limited on the Lead Managing Underwriter List of the professional-oriented bond market, i.e. TOKYO PRO-BOND Market. According to...
View ArticleASIC: ANZ To Refund $28.8 Million To More Than 390,000 Accounts As A Result...
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) is refunding $28.8 million to 376,570 retail accounts, and 17,230 business accounts, after it failed to clearly disclose when certain periodical...
View ArticleSaudi Stock Exchange: Establishing The Securities Depository Center Company...
The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) would like to announce the incorporation of the Securities Depository Center Company (‘Depository Center’) as a closed joint stock company fully owned by Tadawul. The...
View ArticleASX Monthly Activity Report - August 2016
The value of ASX-listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, fell 2.0% in August 2016. This performance was in contrast to some major markets, including Hong Kong up 5.0%, Germany up 2.5%,...
View ArticleAvelacom Has Launched A New Point Of Presence In Dataspace Data Center...
Avelacom, a global network operator, has established a new point of presence (PoP) in DataSpace facilities to be in close proximity to Moscow Exchange (MoEx) and to optimize its customers’ access to...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials -- by Angus...
The use of RCTs is spreading in economics. They are seen as desirable for discovery and for generating evidence for policy. Yet some of the enthusiasm for RCTs comes from misunderstandings: that...
View ArticleFinancial Safety Nets -- by Julien Bengui, Javier Bianchi, Louphou Coulibaly
In this paper, we study the optimal design of financial safety nets under limited private credit. We ask when it is optimal to restrict ex ante the set of investors that can receive public liquidity...
View ArticleMisreporting Trade: Tariff Evasion, Corruption, and Auditing Standards -- by...
In official international trade statistics, annual commerce between every pair of countries is reported twice: once by the importing country and once by the exporter. These double reports provide an...
View ArticleSovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy...
Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal...
View ArticleMigration Responses to Conflict: Evidence from the Border of the American...
The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent...
View ArticleThe U.S. Economy in WWII as a Model for Coping with Climate Change -- by Hugh...
During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw...
View ArticleThe Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action:...
Several public K-12 and university systems have recently shifted from race-based affirmative action plans to race-neutral alternatives. This paper explores the degree to which race-neutral alternatives...
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