Federal Court Orders Florida Resident Rico Omar Cox To Pay Over $940,000 And...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge William J. Zloch of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Fort Lauderdale) entered an Order of...
View ArticleCBOE Named âExchange Of The Yearâ At GlobalCapital Americas...
Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) announced today that it was named “Exchange of the Year” Thursday night at GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives Awards 2016 ceremony in New York City.read more...
View ArticleCFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update
The current reports for the week of May 31, 2016 are now available.read more...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Board Approves Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking And...
The Federal Reserve Board on Friday approved an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) inviting comment on conceptual frameworks for capital standards that could apply to systemically important...
View ArticleSchaeffler AG To Be Included In MDAX - Deutsche Börse Reviews...
On Friday, Deutsche Börse announced changes to its selection indices, which will become effective on 20 June 2016. The shares of Schaeffler AG will be included in the MDAX index and will replace the...
View ArticleSEC: Childhood Friends Charged With Insider Trading In Pharmaceutical Stocks
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Rhode Island men with insider trading in the securities of deal targets being pursued by the pharmaceutical company where one of them worked....
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Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning
The modern financial industry has been required to deal with large and diverse portfolios in a variety of asset classes often with limited market data available. Financial Signal Processing and...
View ArticleMerger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Global Event-Driven Arbitrage, 2nd Edition
Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage, Second Edition is the definitive guide to the ins and outs of the burgeoning merger arbitrage hedge fund strategy, with real-world examples...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S....
Understanding how healthy lifespans are changing is essential for public policy. This paper explores changes in healthy lifespan in the U.S. over time and considers reasons for the changes. We reach...
View ArticleThe Upside-down Economics of Regulated and Otherwise Rigid Prices -- by Casey...
A version of the Becker-Lancaster characteristics model featuring quality-quantity tradeoffs reveals a number of surprising market behaviors that can result from price regulations that are imposed on...
View ArticleUnsticking the Flypaper Effect Using Distortionary Taxation -- by Carlos A....
The flypaper effect is a widely-documented puzzle whereby the propensity of sub-national governmental units to spend out of unconditional transfers is higher than the propensity to spend out of private...
View ArticleEnvironmental Taxation -- by Roberton C. Williams III
This paper examines potential environmental tax policy reforms. It focuses primarily on a carbon tax, but also more briefly considers a range of other possible changes. These include revising or...
View ArticleReturns to Consumer Search: Evidence from eBay -- by Thomas Blake, Chris...
A growing body of empirical literature finds that consumers are relatively limited in how much they search over product characteristics. We assemble a dataset of search and purchase behavior from eBay...
View ArticleInter Vivos Transfers of Ownership in Family Firms -- by James R. Hines Jr.,...
This paper examines the determinants of inter vivos (lifetime) transfers of ownership in German family firms between 2000 and 2013. Survey evidence indicates that owners of larger firms, and firms with...
View ArticleTourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline -- by...
Tourism is one of the most visible and fastest growing facets of globalization in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial...
View ArticleA Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation -- by...
Conditions of secular stagnation - low interest rates, below target inflation, and sluggish output growth - characterize much of the global economy. We consider an overlapping generations, open economy...
View ArticleReverse Speculative Attacks -- by Manuel Amador, Javier Bianchi, Luigi...
In January 2015, in the face of sustained capital inflows, the Swiss National Bank abandoned the floor for the Swiss Franc against the Euro, a decision which led to the appreciation of the Swiss Franc....
View ArticleIncomplete Information in Macroeconomics: Accommodating Frictions in...
This chapter studies how incomplete information helps accommodate frictions in coordination, leading to novel insights on the joint determination of expectations and macroeconomic outcomes. We review...
View ArticleThe Influence of Geography and Measurement in Estimating Cigarette Price...
We use data from the 2006-07 and 2010-11 waves of the Tobacco Use Supplement of the Current Population Survey to calculate cigarette price elasticities that compensate for within-state cigarette...
View ArticleHong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Court Rules On Appeals Over...
The Court of First Instance has dismissed an appeal of C.L. Management Services Limited (C.L. Management) and its sole owner and director Ms Clarea Au Suet Ming against their convictions for holding...
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