Colt To Revamp Japanese Network Infrastructure - New Revolutionary Network...
Colt, a leading international network and ICT provider, today announced a major revamp of their advanced fibre-optic network, as well as extensive Layer 2 network expansion in Japan. This will enable...
View ArticleModulr Appoints Contego, The Multi-Source Identity Verification Platform, To...
Contego, the multi-source identity verification and risk-scoring platform, today announced that Modulr, an API platform that simplifies complex payment flows, has selected Contego to carry out checks...
View ArticleSecurities Commission Malaysia Media Statement On Budget 2017 Capital Market...
Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) commends the Government initiatives in Budget 2017 aimed at further developing the capital market.read more...
View ArticleThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Bans Two Individuals From The Financial...
The FCA has today banned two individuals from performing any function in relation to any regulated activity in the financial services industry.read more...
View ArticleThomson Reuters/SGX SFI Series Selected As UOB’s Recommended Fixed...
Thomson Reuters and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that the TR/SGX Singapore Fixed Income Indices (TR/SGX SFI) have been selected as the recommended fixed income benchmark by United Overseas...
View ArticleEIB: Raiffeisen-Leasing Completes EUR 440m Securitisation Transaction
The EIB Group, consisting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF), has supported a Raiffeisen-Leasing securitisation transaction of EUR 440m. EIB invested EUR 150m...
View ArticleOslo Børs: Millennium Exchange Release 9.1 Oslo Børs –...
Oslo Børs’ Millennium 9.1 CDS environment will be upgraded to a new version as of Wednesday 2 November, affecting both technical documentation and reference data files. Wednesday 2 November is to be...
View ArticleHKEX: Report On Initial Public Offering Applications, Delisting And...
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View ArticleNew On MOEX Equity & Bond Market
From 31 October 2016, аny Russian federal government bond (OFZ) being offered at the auction on the primary market will be available for trading in all other trading regimes at the same time.read more...
View ArticleBalancing, Regression, Difference-In-Differences and Synthetic Control...
In a seminal paper Abadie et al (2010) develop the synthetic control procedure for estimating the effect of a treatment, in the presence of a single treated unit and a number of control units, with...
View ArticleCurrency Manipulation -- by Tarek A. Hassan, Thomas M. Mertens, Tony Zhang
We propose a novel, risk-based transmission mechanism for the effects of currency manipulation: policies that systematically induce a country's currency to appreciate in bad times, lower its risk...
View ArticleA Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics -- by Edward Glaeser, Wei...
Chinese housing prices rose by over 10 percent per year in real terms between 2003 and 2014, and are now between two and ten times higher than the construction cost of apartments. At the same time,...
View ArticleCrime and Durable Goods -- by Sebastian Galiani, Laura Jaitman, Federico...
Crime and the durability of goods are strongly connected issues. However, surprisingly, they have been studied separately. This paper explores the relationship between the production of durable goods...
View ArticleFighting Crises -- by Gary Gorton, Guillermo Ordonyez
In fighting a financial crisis, opacity (keeping the names of banks borrowing at emergency lending facilities secret) and stigma (the cost of having a bank's name revealed) are desirable to restore...
View ArticleDiscrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery...
Examining the performance of cashiers in a French grocery store chain, we find that manager bias negatively affects minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different...
View ArticleForward Guidance without Common Knowledge -- by George-Marios Angeletos, Chen...
Forward guidance relies on shifting expectations of income and inflation. These expectations matter through general-equilibrium mechanisms, including two known as the deflationary spiral and the income...
View ArticleLog-linear Approximation versus an Exact Solution at the ZLB in the New...
How accurate is a log-linear approximation of the New Keynesian model when the nominal interest rate is bounded by zero? This paper compares the solution of the exact non-linear model to the log-linear...
View ArticleInnovation Network -- by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, William Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation...
View ArticleTrends in Cumulative Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low-Income Families, 1997-2007...
We present new calculations of cumulative marginal tax rates (MTRs) facing low income families participating in multiple welfare programs over the period 1997-2007, the period after 1996 welfare reform...
View ArticleRegression Kink Design: Theory and Practice -- by David Card, David S. Lee,...
A regression kink design (RKD or RK design) can be used to identify casual effects in settings where the regressor of interest is a kinked function of an assignment variable. In this paper, we apply an...
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