Speakerbus Extends Voice Offering In EMEA With Westcon Partnership
Speakerbus, the specialist provider of critical voice solutions for financial, emergency and command sectors, announced today that is has signed an agreement with Westcon Group, a leader in...
View ArticleIMF Managing Director Concludes Visit To China, Meets Chinese Leadership
Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), today concluded a two-day visit to China and issued the following statement:read more...
View ArticleEurex Expands Equity Index Segment With New Quanto Futures - Launch Of...
Eurex, one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges and part of Deutsche Börse Group, will introduce Euro STOXX 50 quanto futures as of 21 March 2016. The USD-denominated product allows investors...
View ArticleHKEX Welcomes Government Re-appointments To Its Board
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomes the Government's re-appointment of Chow Chung Kong and Timothy Freshwater to its Board of Directors. Mr Chow is HKEX’s current chairman.read...
View ArticleCapital Markets Union And The European Monetary And Financial Framework -...
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View ArticleHKEX: Forfeiture Of Unclaimed Final Dividend For 2009
Pursuant to the Articles of Association of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”), the unclaimed final dividend for 2009 will be forfeited and will revert to HKEX on 3 May 2016. read more...
View ArticlemodeFinance Gives The Barilla Group A B1+ Rating (First Issuance) - The...
The modeFinance rating agency has given Barilla Holding SPA a B1+ corporate credit rating. The rating (first issuance) that modeFinance has published on the Italian food multinational reflects its good...
View ArticleSGX Welcomes Global Link Securities As Securities Trading Member
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomes Taiwan-based Global Link Securities Co., Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) to its Securities market as a trading member.read more...
View ArticleSix Major European Banks To Explain Their âTax Optimisationâ Role...
Representatives of ING Group (NL), Crédit Agricole (FR), Nordea (SW), Santander (ES), UBS (CH), and Unicredit (IT) will meet members of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings (TAXE II) on Monday...
View ArticleSGX Reports 3Q Results On 20 April 2016
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is reporting third-quarter results for Financial Year 2016 (FY2016) after the market closes on 20 April 2016.read more...
View ArticleIHS And Markit To Merge, Creating A Global Leader In Critical Information,...
IHS (NYSE: IHS) and Markit (NASDAQ: MRKT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-share merger of equals to create a global leader in...
View ArticleChubb Announces Personal Risk Services Management Team For Europe - Launches...
Chubb today announced the management team that will lead its Personal Risk Services (PRS) business serving high net worth (HNW) brokers and their clients in Europe.read more...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers â March 18, 2016
1. Understanding Modern Portfolio Construction by Cullen Roche (Orcam Financial Group)read more...
View ArticleThe Price Effects of Cross-Market Hospital Mergers -- by Leemore Dafny, Kate...
So-called "horizontal mergers" of hospitals in the same geographic market have garnered significant attention from researchers and regulators alike. However, much of the recent hospital industry...
View ArticleThe Environmental Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies -- by Lucas W. Davis
Despite increasing calls for reform many countries continue to provide subsidies for gasoline and diesel. This paper quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available...
View ArticleCan Tracking Raise the Test Scores of High-Ability Minority Students? -- by...
We study the impacts of a tracking program in a large urban school district that establishes separate "gifted/high achiever" (GHA) classrooms for fourth and fifth graders whenever there is at least one...
View ArticleLearning from Potentially-Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions...
When forming expectations, households may be influenced by the possibility that the information they receive is biased. In this paper, we study how individuals learn from potentially-biased statistics...
View ArticleThe Labor Supply of Undocumented Immigrants -- by George J. Borjas
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 11.4 million undocumented persons reside in the United States. Congress and President Obama are considering a number of proposals to regularize the...
View ArticleManagement Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity -- by Stefan...
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring,...
View ArticleRevenue and Incentive Effects of Basis Step-Up at Death: Lessons from the...
In 2010, the U.S. estate tax expired and executors of wealthy decedents were not required to file estate tax returns. In the absence of the estate tax, beneficiaries received assets with carryover...
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