Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange Supports Abu Dhabi Hosting WorldSkills...
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) reviewed and supported plans for WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017, to be held in October 2017 in Abu Dhabi, organized by Abu Dhabi Centre for Technical and Vocational...
View ArticleThe Saudi Stock Exchange Announces The Publication Of The Weekly Stock Market...
The total value of shares traded for the week ending 1 June 2017 amounted to SAR 10.02 billion, decreasing by 22.65% over the previous week; while total stock market capitalization reached SAR...
View ArticleFluctuation analysis of electric power loads in Europe: Correlation...
We analyze the time series of the power loads of the 35 separated countries publicly sharing hourly data through ENTSO-E platform for more than 5 years. We apply the Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation...
View ArticleShanghai Futures Exchange: Notice On Designated Depository Banks For Margin...
On May 28, 2017, Shanghai International Energy Exchange (“INE”), a subsidary of Shanghai Futures Exchange, has approved 12 banks as the designated depository banks for margin depository busienss of its...
View ArticleNon-Jordanian Investment At The Amman Stock Exchange During May 2017
The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors at the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during May 2017 was JD24.3million, representing 15% of the overall trading value, while the value...
View ArticleNotice On The Mermbership Of 92 Futures Firms Approved By Shanghai...
Following the consideration by the Board of Directors on May 31, 2017, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (“INE”), a subsidiary of the Shanghai Futures Exchange, has approved the membership of...
View ArticleAl Mawared Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report, 5 June 2017
Banks push ASE higher read more...
View ArticleDo Reusable Grocery Bags Lead to Unhealthy Eating?
Scholars Uma Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger have conducted fascinating new research regarding reusable grocery bags. Through both empirical data from the field and experimental studies, Karmarkar and...
View ArticleThe Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal...
Understanding the response of consumers to electricity prices is essential for crafting efficient energy market regulations, evaluating climate change policy, and investing optimally in infrastructure....
View ArticlePer Capita Income and the Demand for Skills -- by Justin Caron, Thibault...
Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium...
View ArticleUpstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910 -- by Christopher M....
Japanese exports between 1880 and 1910 increased massively in volume, changed composition, and shifted away from leading industrialized countries toward poorer Asian neighbors. The product mix also...
View ArticleRobust Bond Risk Premia -- by Michael D. Bauer, James D. Hamilton
A consensus has recently emerged that variables beyond the level, slope, and curvature of the yield curve can help predict bond returns. This paper shows that the statistical tests underlying this...
View ArticleQuantifying the Life-cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program...
This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality: Value-Added,...
There are three primary measures of teaching performance: student test-based measures (i.e., value added), classroom observations, and student surveys. Although all three types of measures could be...
View ArticleWorld War II and the Industrialization of the American South -- by Taylor...
When private incentives are insufficient, a big push by government may lead to industrialization. This paper uses mobilization for World War II to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar...
View ArticleComplex Asset Markets -- by Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Hanno Lustig, Lei Zhang
We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of complex asset markets with endogenous entry and exit in which the investment technology of investors with more expertise is subject to less asset-specific...
View ArticleInsurgent Learning -- by Francesco Trebbi, Eric Weese, Austin L. Wright,...
We study a model of insurgent learning during a counterinsurgency campaign. We test empirical implications of the model using newly declassified microdata documenting improvised explosive devices...
View ArticleTaper Tantrums: QE, its Aftermath and Emerging Market Capital Flows -- by...
This paper provides a novel perspective on the impact of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (UMP) on emerging market capital flows and asset prices. Using high-frequency Treasury futures data to...
View ArticleTax Advantages and Imperfect Competition in Auctions for Municipal Bonds --...
We show that the effect of tax advantages of municipal bonds on the market microstructure of municipal bond auctions is a crucial determinant of state and local governments' borrowing costs....
View ArticleWho Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability...
The application process is critical to the targeting of disability programs because disability, relative to other tags, is difficult to observe and costly to verify. We study the effect of application...
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