Credible Ecological Inference for Personalized Medicine: Formalizing Clinical...
This paper studies the ecological inference problem that arises when clinicians seek to personalize patient care by making health risk assessments conditional on observed patient attributes. Let y be a...
View ArticleDeriving Risk Adjustment Payment Weights to Maximize Efficiency of Health...
Risk adjustment of payments to health plans is fundamental to regulated competition among private insurers, which serves as the basis of national health policy in many countries. To date, estimation...
View ArticleTitle IX and the Spatial Content of Female Employment--Out of the Lab and...
Sports participation is a leading environmental explanation of the male advantage in some spatial skills. We exploit the large increase in females' high school sports participation due to Title IX to...
View ArticleThe Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development:...
While substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at a global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. In this...
View ArticleMonetary Policy for a Bubbly World -- by Vladimir Asriyan, Luca Fornaro,...
We propose a model of money, credit and bubbles, and use it to study the role of monetary policy in managing asset bubbles. In this model, bubbles pop up and burst, generating fluctuations in credit,...
View ArticleHow Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel -- by...
Despite massive large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) by central banks around the world since the global financial crisis, there is a lack of empirical evidence on whether and how these programs affect...
View ArticleImporting Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade...
Has rising trade integration between the U.S. and China contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections, we detect an ideological...
View ArticleTrade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results -- by Jevan...
We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The review is given structure by a novel decomposition linking changes in emissions to...
View ArticleIncentive Fees and Competition in Pension Funds: Evidence from a Regulatory...
Concerned with excessive risk taking, regulators worldwide generally prohibit private pension funds from charging performance-based fees. Instead, the premise underlying the regulation of private...
View ArticleResearch and Impacts of Digital Financial Services -- by Dean Karlan, Jake...
A growing body of rigorous research shows that financial services innovations can have important positive impacts on wellbeing, but also that many do not. We first describe the latest evidence on what...
View ArticleHow You Pay Affects How You Do: Financial Aid Type and Student Performance in...
Students receiving financial aid pay different amounts for equivalent education and do so in different ways: Grants, which do not have to be repaid, loans, which are paid back in the future, and...
View ArticleICE Clear Europe Receives EMIR Authorisation
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that the Bank of England has authorised ICE...
View ArticleErnst & Young, Former Partners Charged With Violating Auditor...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that public accounting firm Ernst & Young has agreed to pay $9.3 million to settle charges that two of the firm’s audit partners got too close...
View ArticleTMX Group CEO Lou Eccleston To Speak At CIBCâs 15th Annual Eastern...
TMX Group CEO Lou Eccleston will be speaking at CIBC's 15th Annual Eastern Institutional Investor Conference at Le Centre Sheraton in Montréal.read more...
View ArticleBanking Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking: Conventional Banks vs...
Development of emerging countries is often done through non-conventional finance. The prohibition of interest and some other impediments require understanding of conventional finance and Islamic...
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FIA To Feature MayStreet In Innovators Pavilion At Futures & Options Expo
FIA announced that MayStreet is one of 18 companies chosen to exhibit in the 2016 Innovators Pavilion at the Futures and Options Expo in Chicago on Oct. 18-20. Innovators Pavilion showcases startup...
View ArticleTMX Group Statement Regarding Index Inclusion
It has come to our attention that erroneous information was broadly disseminated into the marketplace asserting that TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) had been removed from the S&P/TSX Composite Index. TMX...
View ArticleStatement From ASX Managing Director And CEO, Dominic Stevens
“Today, ASX encountered issues with our equities trading system, ASX Trade. What happened today does not meet the high standards of operations and system reliability that we set ourselves, and that our...
View ArticleNew Business Rises 13% At The Channel Islands Securities Exchange
There were 229 new listings on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) during the first half of 2016.read more...
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