CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update
The current reports for the week of September 6, 2016 are now available.read more...
View ArticleThe Path to Becoming a CEO: The Long and Winding Road
The New York Times published the findings of a fascinating new study by LinkedIn regarding the path to becoming a CEO. Â They examined 459,000 people who had worked as management consultants at one...
View ArticleUS Department Of Justice: Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty For His Role In...
James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software...
View ArticleNasdaq President & COO Adena Friedman To Present At Barclay’s...
Who:  Nasdaq President & COO Adena Friedman    What:  Barclay’s Global Financial Services Conference    When:  Tuesday, September 13, 2016   12:00 Noon Eastern Time    Where:...
View ArticleTheory and Practice of Aircraft Performance
Textbook introducing the fundamentals of aircraft performance using industry standards and examples: bridging the gap between academia and industryread more...
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Tehran Stock Exchange Weekly Market Review
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View ArticleBulgarian Stock Exchange Monthly Summary August 2016
Click here to doenlosd the BSE Market Statistics for August 2016.
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Deputy Governor Minouche Shafik To Leave Bank Of England
Minouche Shafik, Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, will leave the Bank at the end of February 2017 to become the Director of the London School of Economics (LSE). Bank of England Governor Mark...
View ArticleEfficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment...
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and...
View ArticleTechnological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE -- by Yasin Ozcan,...
Using patents as indicators of inventive activity, this article characterizes the concentration of origins of invention from 1976 to 2010, and how these changed over time. The analysis finds pervasive...
View ArticleStudent Coaching: How Far Can Technology Go? -- by Philip Oreopoulos, Uros...
Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are...
View ArticleThrivers and Divers: Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success...
We collect a comprehensive set of non-academic characteristics for a representative sample of incoming freshman to explore which measures best predict the wide variance in first-year college...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Impact Dynamics of a Rural Business Development Program in...
We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the small-farm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and...
View ArticleUsing Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber -- by Peter...
Estimating consumer surplus is challenging because it requires identification of the entire demand curve. We rely on Uber's "surge" pricing algorithm and the richness of its individual level data to...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the Roles of Risk and Ability -- by Paulo...
This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely...
View ArticleThe Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer -- by...
We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in...
View ArticleAgro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks -- by...
This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can...
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