Prices versus Quantities with Policy Updating -- by William A. Pizer, Brian...
This paper considers how policy updates and trading of regulated quantities over time changes the traditional comparative advantage of prices versus quantities. Quantity regulation that can be traded...
View ArticleCash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem...
This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest-owning households cash payments if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as...
View ArticleBond Finance, Bank Credit, and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Open Economy --...
Corporate sectors in emerging markets have noticeably increased their reliance on foreign financing, presumably reflecting low global interest rates. The evidence also shows a rebalancing from bank...
View ArticleTaxing Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland -- by Marius Bruelhart, Jonathan...
We study the effects of wealth taxation on reported wealth. Our analysis is based on data for Switzerland, which has the highest rate of annual wealth taxation in the developed world. While the wealth...
View ArticleDynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets -- by Matthew Backus, Gregory Lewis
Economists have developed empirically tractable demand systems for fixed price markets. In contrast, empirical auction techniques treat each auction in isolation, ignoring market interactions. We...
View ArticleThe Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations -- by Antonio Fatas, Lawrence...
The global financial crisis has permanently lowered the path of GDP in all advanced economies. At the same time, and in response to rising government debt levels, many of these countries have been...
View ArticleUK's Serious Fraud Office: LIBOR Traders And Submitters Found Guilty
Three former employees of Barclays Bank plc have been convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an SFO investigation into the manipulation of US Dollar...
View ArticleVenture Capital Contracting in Theory and Practice
This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical literature review of venture capital contracts, highlighting discrepancies between theory and practice.read more...
View ArticleESMA Is Seeking Secondary Market Experts To Join Consultative Industry Group
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a call for candidates to newly constitute a Consultative Working Group (CWG) for the ESMA Secondary Markets Standing Committee...
View ArticleComments on the BCBS proposal for a New Standardized Approach for Operational...
On March 4th 2016 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a consultative document where a new methodology, called the Standardized Measurement Approach (SMA), is introduced for computing...
View ArticleRecursive utility optimization with concave coefficients. (arXiv:1607.00721v1...
This paper concerns the recursive utility maximization problem. We assume that the coefficients of the wealth equation and the recursive utility are concave. Then some interesting and important cases...
View ArticleTime-Inconsistent Stochastic Linear-quadratic Differential Game....
We consider a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic differential game. The time-inconsistency arises from the presence of quadratic terms of the expected state as well as...
View ArticleLimit order trading with a mean reverting reference price....
Optimal control models for limit order trading often assume that the underlying asset price is a Brownian motion since they deal with relatively short time scales. The resulting optimal bid and ask...
View ArticleEstimation and prediction of credit risk based on rating transition systems....
Risk management is an important practice in the banking industry. In this paper we develop a new methodology to estimate and predict the probability of default (PD) based on the rating transition...
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The Effective Manager
Mark Horstman identifies what "effective management" actually looks like, and digs into the four critical behaviors that make a manager great and explains how leaders can adjust their own behavior...
View ArticleNew Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Code Committee Members Reappointed
The Financial Markets Authority has announced the reappointment of two members of the Code Committee. The Committee was established in July 2009 to draft a code of Professional Conduct for Authorised...
View ArticleASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report - June 2016
New listings for the month were 9 Spokes International Limited (9SP), ApplyDirect Limited (AD1), Australian Unity Office Fund (AOF), ChimpChange Limited (CCA), DroneShield Limited (DRO), Graphex Mining...
View ArticleASX Group Monthly Activity Report - June 2016
The value of ASXâlisted stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, fell 2.5% in June 2016. Declines were also observed in other major markets, including Japan down 9.6%, Germany down 5.7% and...
View ArticleColt Prizmnet Doubles Footprint In Hong Kong And Singapore - Financial...
Colt PrizmNet, the financial extranet developed by Colt, has continued to grow its footprint in Asia by connecting to Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centres in Hong Kong (HK1)...
View ArticleAvelacom, International Telecom Company, Becomes A CME Group Market Data...
Avelacom has just signed an agreement to become a CME Group market data distributor allowing Avelacom to provide real-time, delayed and end-of-day data. Capital market companies located in 30 countries...
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