Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job, 2nd Edition
Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and...
View ArticleImplementing the countercyclical capital buffer
Press release about the Basel Committee publishing a range of practices in implementing the countercyclical capital buffer policy (22 June 2017).
View ArticleRange of practices in implementing the countercyclical capital buffer policy
The Basel Committee is publishing the "Range of practices in implementing the countercyclical capital buffer policy" report, June 2017.
View ArticleStatement of J. Christopher Giancarlo Acting Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures...
Statement of J. Christopher Giancarlo Acting Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Numerix Vantage Point Series | New Best Practices for Operating in Today's...
Since 2010, when the first of a series of critical reforms were implemented, namely Dodd-Frank, the pace of change in the capital markets has continuously accelerated with stricter regulatory...
View ArticleCreating Great Ideas: Combining Open Innovators and Extroverted Peers on a Team
Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning have conducted research on idea generation in teams, using a unique field experiment design. These scholars conducted their field experiment within the opening week...
View ArticleWhy Your Cellphone Bill is Decreasing
In an article by Ryan Knutson, the Wall Street Journal reports this morning that, "The cost of U.S. cellular service is rapidly plunging, reversing years of increases that have squeezed consumersâ...
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Please Consider Supporting My Run For the Troops
During my sabbatical year from Bryant, I'm training to run the Minneapolis Marathon on October 1st. I'm running to support Homes for our Troops (HFOT). This organization builds and donates specially...
View ArticleFSI publishes Executive Summaries on latest regulatory standards for the...
Press release about about FSI publishing the Executive Summaries on latest regulatory standards for the general public, 24 June 2017
View ArticleBuilding resilient growth requires international cooperation
BIS press release on the presentation of the 87th Annual Report, 25 June 2017. The current economic upswing provides an opportunity to build greater economic resilience, the Bank for International...
View ArticleChanges to BIS Statutes regarding Board composition
BIS press release about changes to the BIS Statutes regarding the Board composition (25 June 2017). The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced, as part of its Annual General Meeting today,...
View ArticleIntergenerational mobility measures in a bivariate normal model....
We model the joint log-income distribution of parents and children and derive analytic expressions for canonical relative and absolute intergenerational mobility measures. We find that both types of...
View ArticleA Possibilistic and Probabilistic Approach to Precautionary Saving....
This paper proposes two mixed models to study a consumer's optimal saving in the presence of two types of risk.
View ArticleThe effect of the behavior of an average consumer on the public debt...
An important issue within the present economic crisis is understanding the dynamics of the public debt of a given country, and how the behavior of average consumers and tax payers in that country...
View ArticleNon-Local Macroeconomic Transactions and Credits-Loans Surface-Like Waves....
This paper describes surface-like waves of macroeconomic Credits-Loans transactions on economic space. We use agent's risk ratings as their coordinates and describe evolution of macro variables by...
View ArticleIdentification of Credit Risk Based on Cluster Analysis of Account...
Assessment of risk levels for existing credit accounts is important to the implementation of bank policies and offering financial products. This paper uses cluster analysis of behaviour of credit card...
View ArticleGeneral Compound Hawkes Processes in Limit Order Books. (arXiv:1706.07459v1...
In this paper, we study various new Hawkes processes, namely, so-called general compound and regime-switching general compound Hawkes processes to model the price processes in the limit order books. We...
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Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic Impacts of...
A rapidly growing empirical literature seeks to estimate the costs of future climate change from time series variation in weather. I formally analyze the consequences of a change in climate for...
View ArticleWhy Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others? -- by Edward P....
Success, measured by earnings or education, of immigrants in the US varies dramatically by country of origin. For example, average educational attainment among immigrants ranges from 9 to 16 years,...
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