Flexibility of Adjustment to Shocks: Economic Growth and Volatility of...
The pronounced and persistent impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 motivates our empirical analysis of the role of institutions and macroeconomic fundamentals on countries' adjustment to...
View ArticleDisability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply -- by...
While a mature literature finds that Disability Insurance (DI) receipt discourages work, the welfare implications of these findings depend on two rarely studied economic quantities: the full cost of DI...
View ArticleAccess and Use of Contraception and Its Effects on Women's Outcomes in the...
Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have experienced dramatic changes in the ease and convenience of timing and limiting...
View ArticleAre U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts -- by Steven N. Kaplan
U.S. companies are often criticized for being overly short-term oriented. This paper documents that those criticisms have a long history, going back at least thirty-five years. The paper then considers...
View ArticleSchool Performance, Accountability and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from...
States that received federal waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were required to implement reforms in designated "Focus Schools" that contribute to achievement gaps. In this study, we...
View ArticleThe Effects of School Reform Under NCLB Waivers: Evidence from Focus Schools...
Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement...
View ArticleDifferentiated Accountability and Education Production: Evidence from NCLB...
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education granted states the opportunity to apply for waivers from the core requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In exchange, states implemented systems of...
View ArticleGovernance and Stakeholders -- by Vikas Mehrotra, Randall Morck
Economic models routinely assume firms maximize shareholder wealth; however common law legal systems only require that officers and directors pursue the interests of the corporation, leaving this...
View ArticleInternational Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously -- by Maurice...
In our book, Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth, we traced out the evolution of the international monetary system using the framework of the "international monetary trilemma":...
View ArticleIntercontinental Exchange Chairman & CEO Jeffrey C. Sprecher To Speak At...
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, announced today that Jeffrey C. Sprecher, Chairman and...
View Article“Ethics in Quantitative Finance”
âEthics in Quantitative Financeâ by @TCJUK reviewed by @freakonometrics - Great Stuff: https://t.co/VYwME5OQLI â moneyscience (@moneyscience) June 5, 2017
View ArticleJoe Mecane Joins Citadel Securities As Head Of Execution Services
Citadel Securities is pleased to announce that Joe Mecane is joining the firm as Head of Execution services. In this role, Joe will lead our equity, options, and ETF businesses, bringing his deep...
View ArticleCFTC Charges Estonian Company Tallinex With Fraud And Failure To Register As...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against Tallinex a/k/a Tallinex Limited...
View ArticleMGEX Reports 5th-Best Daily Volume Record
MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), reports its 5th-best daily volume that occurred on Friday, with a total volume of 22,720.read more...
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Estimating Future Stock Returns, March 2017 Update
26 paths, and all of them wrongread more...
View ArticleStock Trading Using PE ratio: A Dynamic Bayesian Network Modeling on...
On a daily investment decision in a security market, the price earnings (PE) ratio is one of the most widely applied methods being used as a firm valuation tool by investment experts. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleCommon agency dilemma with information asymmetry in continuous time....
In this paper, we consider a problem of contract theory in which several Principals hire a common Agent and we study the model in the continuous time setting. We show that optimal contracts should...
View ArticleA Deep Causal Inference Approach to Measuring the Effects of Forming Group...
Kiva is an online non-profit crowdsouring microfinance platform that raises funds for the poor in the third world. The borrowers on Kiva are small business owners and individuals in urgent need of...
View ArticleEvaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters by David H. Bailey, Jonathan M....
Evaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters @SSRN - https://t.co/P3xSTh0Fiw â moneyscience (@moneyscience) June 12, 2017
View Articlehttps://t.co/wgkbDGjDJL
This Is What Makes Quantum Computers Powerful Problem Solvers #quantumcomputing https://t.co/wgkbDGjDJL via @singularityhub â Yves Hilpisch (@dyjh) June 12,â¦
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