The Newest Addition To The Exchangeâs Shariâa-Compliant...
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today launched the draft of its “Standard on Hedging against Investment and Finance Risks”, the first of its kind all-inclusive standard on its website; www.dfm.ae. The...
View ArticleChannel Islands Securities Exchange Goes International By Opening Up Membership
The membership rules previously restricted sponsors to being entities established in the Channel Islands. Now they have been updated to allow sponsors to be based in any jurisdiction deemed acceptable...
View ArticleMiFID II Forcing Buyside Firms To Work Harder To Protect Their End-investors
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, emphasises the importance of investment firms making changes to comply with MiFID II as soon as possible. read...
View ArticleACER Invites Gas Companies To Participate In E-Survey On Barriers In Gas...
ACER invites gas companies to participate in e-survey on barriers in gas wholesale markets in EU Member StatesACER invites gas companies to participate in an e-survey with the aim of identifying...
View ArticleITG Releases September 2016 U.S. Trading Volumes
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced that September 2016 U.S. trading volume was 2.7 billion...
View ArticleEEX New Participant: Hera Trading S.r.l.
Hera Trading S.r.l. has been admitted to exchange trading for Phelix Futures/Options, Nordic Financial Power Futures/Options, French Financial Power Futures/Options, Italian Financial Power...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse Cash Market: Source GPR Real Estate Europe UCITS...
A new equity index fund from the ETF offering issued by Source has been tradable in the XTF segment on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday.read more...
View ArticleMeasuring Liquidity Mismatch in the Banking Sector -- by Arvind...
This paper implements a liquidity measure, "Liquidity Mismatch Index (LMI)," to gauge the mismatch between the market liquidity of assets and the funding liquidity of liabilities. We construct the LMIs...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Analysis of Market Experience and...
People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide...
View ArticleGlobal Firms -- by Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding,...
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in international trade....
View ArticleLate-in-Life Risks and the Under-Insurance Puzzle -- by John Ameriks, Joseph...
Individuals face significant late-in-life risks, including needing long-term care (LTC). Yet, they hold little long-term care insurance (LTCI). Using both "strategic survey questions," which identify...
View ArticleLearning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two...
This paper explores the implications of measuring college productivity in two different dimensions: earning and learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of...
View ArticleWhy Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution -- by...
Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the...
View ArticleDo Rare Events Explain CDX Tranche Spreads? -- by Sang Byung Seo, Jessica A....
We investigate whether a model with a time-varying probability of economic disaster can explain the pricing of collateralized debt obligations, both prior to and during the 2008-2009 financial crisis....
View ArticleChoosing Between an Estate Tax and a Basis Carryover Regime: Evidence from...
Executors of estates for decedents in 2010 could choose between an estate tax regime and a basis carry-over regime. For most executors, this created a tradeoff between a current estate tax payment and...
View ArticleChildhood Housing and Adult Earnings: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing...
To date, research on the long-term effects of childhood participation in voucher-assisted and public housing has been limited by the lack of data and suitable identification strategies. We create a...
View ArticleA Ricardian-Demand Explanation for Changing Pharmaceutical R&D...
This paper examines trends in the aggregate productivity of the pharmaceutical sector over the past three decades. We incorporate Ricardo's insight about demand-driven productivity in settings of...
View ArticleEducation Quality and Teaching Practices -- by Marina Bassi, Costas Meghir,...
This paper uses a RCT to estimate the effectiveness of guided instruction methods as implemented in under-performing schools in Chile. The intervention improved performance substantially for the first...
View ArticleMAS Directs Falcon Bank To Cease Operations In Singapore - Financial...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it is withdrawing the merchant bank status of Falcon Private Bank Ltd, Singapore Branch (Falcon Bank) for serious failures in anti-money...
View ArticleBursa Malaysia Wins âBest Islamic Exchange 2016â For Its Islamic...
Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia”) today announced that Bursa Malaysia has been awarded the ‘Best Islamic Exchange 2016’ at the Global Islamic Finance Awards 2016 held on 29 September 2016 in...
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