UK Payment Systems Regulator Responds To Bank Of England Plans To Extend...
The Bank of England has today announced plans to increase access to settlement accounts for all payment and e-money institutions.read more...
View ArticleMalawi Stock Exchange Weekly Trading Report - 17 June, 2016
Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's weekly trading report for the week ending 17 June, 2016.
View ArticleICE To Acquire Majority Equity Interest In MERS And Build Updated Mortgage...
MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced that ICE will acquire a majority equity position in MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., owner of Mortgage Electronic...
View ArticleUS Federal Agencies Issue Joint Statement On New Accounting Standard On...
The four federal financial institution regulatory agencies today issued a joint statement regarding the new accounting standard, Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments –...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers â June 17, 2016
1. Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future by Richard Thaler (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))read more...
View ArticleTOM MTF Statistics Week 24, 2016
Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 24, 2016. In week 24 a total of 624.171 equity and index option contracts were traded resulting in a TOM MTF market share versus...
View ArticleIFDP 2016-1169: Changes in Prudential Policy Instruments--A New Cross-Country...
Eugenio Cerutti, Ricardo Correa, Elisabetta Fiorentino, and Esther Segalla | This paper documents the features of a new database that focuses on changes in the intensity in the usage of several widely...
View ArticleBorsa İstanbul And Koç University Initiate Corporate...
In consideration of the fact that capital markets and institutionalization are inseparable, a Corporate Transformation Program has been developed using Borsa Ä°stanbul’s accumulated know-how and Koç...
View ArticleBorsa Ä°stanbul Announces The Constituent Changes To The BIST Equity...
All changes will be applied after the close of business on Thursday, June 30, 2016 and will be effective on Friday, July 1, 2016.BIST 100 INDEXread more...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For Week Ending 17 June 2016
A turnover of 2.158 billion shares worth N20.394 billion in 24,369 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 959.917 million shares valued at...
View ArticleIrish Stock Exchange Is 14th Best Workplace In Europe And Highest In Ireland
The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has been ranked as the 14th Best Workplace in Europe in the small to medium category (50-500 employees) by Great Place to Work® (GPTW). This achievement follows the ISE's...
View ArticleToronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montréal Exchange...
Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montréal Exchange and TSX Alpha Exchange will be closed on Friday, July 1, 2016, for the Canada Day holiday.read more...
View ArticleInnovation And Improving Outcomes - Speech By Christopher Woolard, UK...
Speaker: Christopher Woolard, Director of Strategy and Competition Location: The Banking Hall, London Delivered on: 16 June 2016read more...
View ArticleDo Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases? -- by Hong Ru,...
We look at the supply side of the credit card market to analyze the pricing and marketing strategies of credit card offers. First, we show that card issuers target less-educated customers with more...
View ArticleOptimal Automatic Stabilizers -- by Alisdair McKay, Ricardo Reis
Should the generosity of unemployment benefits and the progressivity of income taxes depend on the presence of business cycles? This paper proposes a tractable model where there is a role for social...
View ArticleNew Innovations in Payments -- by Marc Rysman, Scott Schuh
We discuss prospects for innovation in consumer payment instruments. We discuss recent research into consumer payments and what can be learned about consumer behavior towards new payment options. We...
View ArticleConsumption Network Effects -- by Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen,...
In this paper we study consumption network effects. Does the consumption of our peers affect our own consumption? How large is such effect? What are the economic mechanisms behind it? We use long panel...
View ArticleThe Staying Power of Staggered Wage and Price Setting Models in...
After many years, many critiques, and many variations, the staggered wage and price setting model is still the most common method of incorporating nominal rigidities into empirical macroeconomic models...
View ArticleEquity is Cheap for Large Financial Institutions: The International Evidence...
Equity is a cheap source of funding for a country's largest financial institutions. In a large panel of 31 countries, we find that the stocks of a country's largest financial companies earn returns...
View ArticleHousing and Macroeconomics -- by Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider
This paper surveys the literature on housing in macroeconomics. We first collect facts on house prices and quantities in both the time series and the cross section of households and housing markets. We...
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