The World After GDP: Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era
GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic,...
View ArticleAn Ivy League professor who spent 4 months working in a South Bronx...
An Ivy League professor who spent 4 months working in a South Bronx check-cashing store says we're getting it all wrong: "The three common reasons customers cited for using a check casher over a bank:...
View ArticleEndowment Sweepstakes: How Tiny Houghton College Beat Harvard - The New York...
Endowment Sweepstakes: How Tiny Houghton College Beat Harvard - The New York Times: "Compare the results with those of Houghton College, a liberal arts institution affiliated with the Wesleyan Church...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers â February 13th 2017
1. Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements by Matthew Feinberg (University of Toronto – Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) and Robb Willer (Stanford...
View ArticleTrading Lightly: Cross-Impact and Optimal Portfolio Execution....
We model the impact costs of a strategy that trades a basket of correlated instruments, by extending to the multivariate case the linear propagator model previously used for single instruments. Our...
View ArticleShort Maturity Asian Options for the CEV Model. (arXiv:1702.03382v1 [q-fin.PR])
We present a rigorous study of the short maturity asymptotics for Asian options with continuous-time averaging, under the assumption that the underlying asset follows the Constant Elasticity of...
View ArticleA hybrid approach for risk assessment of loan guarantee network....
Groups of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) back each other and form guarantee network to obtain loan from banks. The risk over the networked enterprises may cause significant contagious damage. To...
View ArticleHawkes process model with a time-dependent background rate and its...
A Hawkes process model with a time-varying background rate is developed for analyzing the high-frequency financial data. In our model, the logarithm of the background rate is modeled by a linear model...
View ArticleEstimating VaR in credit risk: Aggregate vs single loss distribution....
Using Monte Carlo simulation to calculate the Value at Risk (VaR) as a possible risk measure requires adequate techniques. One of these techniques is the application of a compound distribution for the...
View ArticleStrategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance
Planning, budgeting, and operations assessment are directly linked to future performance. While measured performance provides managers with the key information necessary to steer an organisation to...
View ArticleSOP 13-1 Attest Engagements on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information
Mounting concern over climate change around the world has resulted in a wide array of legislative, regulatory and voluntary responses for reporting and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)....
View ArticleCommunications: Methods and Applications for Financial Managers
Improving communication is one of the most important – and challenging – issues that management accountants face. In a global survey of CFOs, Ernst & Young said: “Despite two thirds of respondents...
View ArticleStatement on Auditing Standards, Number 127: Omnibus Statement on Auditing...
Paragraph .25a of Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 122, Statements on Auditing Standards: Clarification and Recodification, section 600, “Special Considerations--Audits of Group Financial...
View ArticleProspective Financial Information Guide
Ensure you have the most current authoritative guidance related to Prospective Financial Information.read more...
View ArticleAssessing international capital flows after the crisis
Proceedings of the IFC Satellite meeting organised in cooperation with the Central Bank of Brazil and the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) in Rio de Janeiro on 24 July 2015.
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