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Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis...

A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly...

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Water, Health and Wealth -- by Nava Ashraf, Edward Glaeser, Abraham Holland,...

Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay...

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Curiosity Affects the Brain, Enhances Learning

Several years ago, Daisy Yuhas wrote an interesting article about new neuroscience research regarding curiosity and leanring. I came across the article today, and I thought it was worth sharing the key...

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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 18th, 2017

1. Misconceptions About Nudges by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University – Harvard Kennedy School (HKS))read more...

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Commissioner Quintenz Named Sponsor of the Technology Advisory Committee

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Commissioner Brian Quintenz will sponsor the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC).

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Optimal Liquidation Problems in a Randomly-Terminated Horizon....

In this paper, we study optimal liquidation problems in a randomly-terminated horizon. We consider the liquidation of a large single-asset portfolio with the aim of minimizing a combination of...

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A new approach to the modeling of financial volumes. (arXiv:1709.05823v1...

In this paper we study the high frequency dynamic of financial volumes of traded stocks by using a semi-Markov approach. More precisely we assume that the intraday logarithmic change of volume is...

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GDP growth rates as confined L\'evy flights. (arXiv:1709.05594v1 [q-fin.GN])

A new model that combines economic growth rate fluctuations at the microscopic and macroscopic level is presented. At the microscopic level, firms are growing at different rates while also being...

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Explicit Solution for Constrained Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control with...

We study in this paper a class of constrained linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem formulations for the scalar-state stochastic system with multiplicative noise, which has various...

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Semi-Static Variance-Optimal Hedging in Stochastic Volatility Models with...

In a financial market model, we consider the variance-optimal semi-static hedging of a given contingent claim, a generalization of the classic variance-optimal hedging. To obtain a tractable formula...

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Semi-Static and Sparse Variance-Optimal Hedging. (arXiv:1709.05519v1 [q-fin.MF])

We consider hedging of a contingent claim by a 'semi-static' strategy composed of a dynamic position in one asset and static (buy-and-hold) positions in other assets. We give general representations of...

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Relatedness, Knowledge Diffusion, and the Evolution of Bilateral Trade....

During the last decades two important contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. First, countries trade more with those with whom they share history, language, and culture,...

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Central bankers warn of $13 trillion hole in global debt calculations

Trillions of $s of FX derivatives may be “missing” from calculations of the amount of debt in the global economy https://t.co/lj9W5nrXxz — moneyscience…

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Basel III definition of capital - Frequently asked questions

Basel III definition of capital - Frequently asked questions published by the Basel Committee, September 2017. These aim to promote consistent global implementation of Basel III.

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FAQs on Basel III definition of capital published by the Basel Committee

Press release about the Basel Committee publishing FAQs on Basel III definition of capital (19 September 2017)

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Has the UFC Jumped the Shark?

Now, in the middle of hurricanes, Trump, and a (possibly) overheated stock market, here's a blog about something different and somewhat inconsequential: The mixed martial arts world, which pretty much...

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Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment -- by Thomas R. Covert,...

The recent large-scale use of railroads to transport crude oil out of newly discovered shale formations has no recent precedent in the U.S. oil industry. This paper addresses the question of whether...

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Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under...

How will climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing market dynamics? This paper provides both theoretical and empirical evidence: First, we build a dynamic housing market model with heterogeneity in...

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The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical...

We explore the possibility that a global productivity slowdown is responsible for the widespread decline in the labor share of national income. In a neoclassical growth model with endogenous human...

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