Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning
The modern financial industry has been required to deal with large and diverse portfolios in a variety of asset classes often with limited market data available. Financial Signal Processing and...
View ArticleMerger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Global Event-Driven Arbitrage, 2nd Edition
Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage, Second Edition is the definitive guide to the ins and outs of the burgeoning merger arbitrage hedge fund strategy, with real-world examples...
View ArticleSEC Filing Relating To Nasdaq Senior Notes Offering
On June 3, 2016, Nasdaq filed a final prospectus supplement with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a public offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of...
View ArticleNew York State Department Of Financial Service: North Korea Deemed...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently announced a Notice of Finding that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“North Korea”) is a jurisdiction of “primary money laundering concern” under...
View ArticleInfrastructure as an Asset Class: Investment Strategy, Sustainability,...
Infrastructure As An Asset Class is the leading infrastructure investment guide, with comprehensive coverage and in-depth expert insight. This new second edition has been fully updated to reflect the...
View ArticleMonetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
Surprising rules for successful monetizationread more...
View ArticleBGC Partners To Present At Sandler O'Neill's "Global Exchange &...
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or the "Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that its Chairman and...
View ArticleMalawi Stock Exchange Monthly Market Performance Report- May, 2016
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View ArticleInternational Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker-Level -- by...
This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high- and low-wage occupations increases but mid-wage occupations decline. With...
View ArticleEmpirical Evidence on Conditional Pricing Practices -- by Bogdan Genchev,...
Conditional pricing practices allow the terms of sale between a producer and a downstream distributor to vary based on the ability of the downstream firm to meet a set of conditions put forward by the...
View ArticleCan War Foster Cooperation? -- by Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie...
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social...
View ArticleAre Supply Shocks Contractionary at the ZLB? Evidence from...
The basic New Keynesian model predicts that positive supply shocks are less expansionary at the zero lower bound (ZLB) compared to periods of active monetary policy. We test this prediction empirically...
View ArticleMacroeconomics, Aging and Growth -- by Ronald Lee
Inevitable population aging and slower population growth will affect the economies of all nations in ways influenced by cultural values, institutional arrangements, and economic incentives. One outcome...
View ArticleMarriage Market Equilibrium -- by Robert A. Pollak
The standard Beckerian analysis of marriage market equilibrium assumes that allocation within marriage implements agreements made in the marriage market. This paper investigates marriage market...
View ArticlePrice Elasticities of Pharmaceuticals in a Value-Based-Formulary Setting --...
Ever since the seminal RAND Health insurance experiment (HIE) was conducted, most health care services, including pharmaceuticals, are deemed to be price inelastic with price elasticities of demand...
View ArticleThe Spillovers, Interactions, and (Un)Intended Consequences of Monetary and...
Have bank regulatory policies and unconventional monetary policies--and any possible interactions--been a factor behind the recent "deglobalisation" in cross-border bank lending? To test this...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S....
Understanding how healthy lifespans are changing is essential for public policy. This paper explores changes in healthy lifespan in the U.S. over time and considers reasons for the changes. We reach...
View ArticleThe Upside-down Economics of Regulated and Otherwise Rigid Prices -- by Casey...
A version of the Becker-Lancaster characteristics model featuring quality-quantity tradeoffs reveals a number of surprising market behaviors that can result from price regulations that are imposed on...
View ArticleUnsticking the Flypaper Effect Using Distortionary Taxation -- by Carlos A....
The flypaper effect is a widely-documented puzzle whereby the propensity of sub-national governmental units to spend out of unconditional transfers is higher than the propensity to spend out of private...
View ArticleEnvironmental Taxation -- by Roberton C. Williams III
This paper examines potential environmental tax policy reforms. It focuses primarily on a carbon tax, but also more briefly considers a range of other possible changes. These include revising or...
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