Diagnosing the Italian Disease -- by Bruno Pellegrino, Luigi Zingales
We try to explain why Italy's labor productivity stopped growing in the mid-1990s. We find no evidence that this slowdown is due to trade dynamics, Italy's inefficient governmental apparatus, or...
View ArticleThe Lifetime Costs of Bad Health -- by Mariacristina De Nardi, Svetlana...
Health shocks are an important source of risk. People in bad health work less, earn less, face higher medical expenses, die earlier, and accumulate much less wealth compared to those in good health....
View ArticleMarketing Agencies and Collusive Bidding in Online Ad Auctions -- by...
The transition of the advertising market from traditional media to the internet has induced a proliferation of marketing agencies specialized in bidding in the auctions that are used to sell ad space...
View ArticleSticky Prices Versus Sticky Information: Does it Matter for Policy Paradoxes?...
This paper shows that government spending multiplier at the zero lower bound (ZLB) is larger under sticky information than under sticky prices. Similarly, well known paradoxes, e.g., the paradox of...
View ArticleMarket Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound -- by Matteo Cacciatore, Romain Duval,...
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we...
View ArticleThe Benefits and Costs of Donor Advised Funds -- by James Andreoni
Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are now a major source of charitable donations in the US, responsible for 1 in 10 dollars donated to charity in 2015. In 2016, Fidelity Charitable, whose only mission is to...
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Mind boggling map of 'All of the world's money and markets' from @VisualCap https://t.co/t3jOKwkFa5 — Paul Langley (@_paullangley) October 27, 2017
View ArticleRecord surge in atmospheric CO2 in 2016
How do financial markets and insurers react to news like this? Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016 https://t.co/L39tqrkxQ4 — Risk Management…
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers – October 30th, 2017
1. Private Benefits in Public Offerings: Tax Receivable Agreements in IPOs by Gladriel Shobe (Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School)read more...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Reflect & Learn?
Most leaders acknowledge the value of learning from past experience. Some organizaitons have established highly regarded best practices for deriving lessons learned from past projects. For instance,...
View ArticleCFTC Commissioner Behnam Named Sponsor of the Market Risk Advisory Committee
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Commissioner Rostin Behnam will sponsor the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC). The agency also announced temporary sponsors for...
View ArticleOn Fair Reinsurance Premiums; Capital Injections in a Perturbed Risk Model....
We consider a risk model in which deficits after ruin are covered by a new type of reinsurance contract that provides capital injections which depend on a chosen level of retention. To allow the...
View ArticleSimulating the deep decarbonisation of residential heating for limiting...
We take a simulation-based approach for modelling ten scenarios, aiming at near-zero global CO2 emissions by 2050 in the residential heating sector, using different combinations of policy instruments....
View ArticleStatistical validation of financial time series via visibility graph....
Statistical physics of complex systems exploits network theory not only to model, but also to effectively extract information from many dynamical real-world systems. A pivotal case of study is given by...
View ArticleLarge deviation principle for Volterra type fractional stochastic volatility...
We study fractional stochastic volatility models for the asset price, in which the volatility process is a positive continuous function $\sigma$ of a continuous fractional stochastic process...
View ArticleResearch on ruin probability of risk model based on AR(1) series....
In this text, we establish the risk model based on AR(1) series and propose the basic model which has a dependent structure under intensity of claim number. Considering some properties of the risk...
View ArticleDual control Monte Carlo method for tight bounds of value function under...
The aim of this paper is to study the fast computation of the lower and upper bounds on the value function for utility maximization under the Heston stochastic volatility model with general utility...
View ArticleQuantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them....
The key cryptographic protocols used to secure the internet and financial transactions of today are all susceptible to attack by the development of a sufficiently large quantum computer. One particular...
View ArticlePolynomial processes for power prices. (arXiv:1710.10293v1 [q-fin.CP])
Polynomial processes have the property that expectations of polynomial functions (of degree $n$, say) of the future state of the process conditional on the current state are given by polynomials (of...
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