ESMA Seeking Commodity Derivatives Experts To Join Consultative Industry Group
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a call for candidates to newly constitute a Consultative Working Group (CWG) for the ESMA Commodity Derivatives Task Force...
View ArticleThe Empirical Economics of Online Attention -- by Andre Boik, Shane...
In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest...
View ArticleEstimating Local Fiscal Multipliers -- by Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato,...
We propose a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of government spending on the economy. We use the fact that a large number of federal spending programs depend on...
View ArticleDistributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: Income Versus Wealth...
This paper compares Social Security means tests that would reduce benefits for recipients who fall in the top quarter of the income distribution with means tests aimed at those in the top quarter of...
View ArticleMeasuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to...
We study trends in the partisanship of Congressional speech from 1873 to 2009. We define partisanship to be the ease with which an observer could infer a congressperson's party from a fixed amount of...
View ArticleRBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory -- by Edward...
This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. Subsequently,...
View ArticleFinders, Keepers? -- by Niko Jaakkola, Daniel Spiro, Arthur A. van Benthem
Natural resource taxation and investment often exhibit cyclical behavior, associated with shifts in political power. Why do finders get to keep more of their discoveries in some periods than others? We...
View ArticleCan Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment? -- by Jean-Noel Barrot,...
In 2011, the federal government accelerated payments to their small business contractors, spanning virtually every county and industry in the US. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector...
View ArticleDisability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal -- by Kathleen...
A key component for estimating the optimal size and structure of disability insurance (DI) programs is the elasticity of DI claiming with respect to benefit generosity. Yet, in many countries,...
View ArticleJim Iorio Has Joined EBS BrokerTec As Global Head Of Sales - Jim Will Be A...
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that Jim Iorio has joined the company as Global Head of Sales and will sit on EBS...
View ArticleNew York Institute Of Technology Professor Michael F. Hutt Joins Speakerbus
Michael F. Hutt, Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New York Institute of Technology, joins Speakerbus, the UK-headquartered leading innovator of mission-critical voice...
View ArticleCISI Offers Support To EU Financial Services Regulators And Firms To Meet New...
The CISI is offering support to European financial services regulators and firms, and ultimately consumers, by publishing its own guidance booklet setting out its stall across the Qualifications,...
View ArticleCME Group Foundation Grants $3.6 Million To Support Math Education For...
CME Group Foundation today announced the launch of the second phase of its Early Math Education Initiative and $3.6 million in new grants for the program. The initiative, first established in October...
View ArticleToronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montréal Exchange And...
Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montréal Exchange and TSX Alpha Exchange will be closed on Monday, August 1, 2016 for the Civic Holiday.read more...
View ArticleCFTC Extends Designation Of DTCC-SWIFT As LEI Provider - One-Year Extension...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has issued an Order extending, by one year, the designation of the utility operated by DTCC-SWIFT as the provider of legal...
View ArticleEuronext: Biotech Pharnext Lists On Alternext To Pursue New Therapies For...
EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), today welcomed French biotech company Pharnext for its first day of trading...
View ArticleIFDP 2016-1173: Oil Price Elasticities and Oil Price Fluctuations
Dario Caldara, Michele Cavallo, and Matteo Iacoviello | We study the identification of oil shocks in a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of the oil market. First, we show that the...
View ArticleBank Of England: Brexit And Monetary Policy – A Speech By Martin Weale,...
In his final speech as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Martin Weale outlined his analysis of the economic and financial market impact of the referendum vote and its implications for monetary...
View ArticleMoscow Exchange: Public Testing Of DataSpace1 As Backup Datacenter
This Saturday 23 July 2016 the public test of the MOEX migration to the new backup data center DataSpace1, including the disaster recovery test, will be held.read more...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority: Announcement In Relation To The...
As part of the Capital Market Authority efforts to develop the legislative environment of the Capital Market in the Kingdom, and to promote the fairness and transparency principles in securities...
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