Deutsche Börse Cash Market: New db x-trackers ETFs On US...
Two new db x-trackers ETFs from the Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management ETF product family have been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment since Monday.read more...
View ArticleDoes Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections? -- by Yi Che,...
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit...
View ArticleRaise Rates to Raise Inflation? Neo-Fisherianism in the New Keynesian Model...
Increasing the inflation target in a textbook New Keynesian (NK) model may require increasing, rather than decreasing, the nominal interest rate in the short run. We refer to this positive short run...
View ArticleTechnology, Skill and the Wage Structure -- by Nancy L. Stokey
Technical change, even if it is limited in scope, can have employment, output, price and wage effects that ripple through the whole economy. This paper uses a flexible and tractable framework, with...
View ArticleDistance and Time Effects in Swedish Commodity Prices, 1732-1914 -- by Mario...
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion across 32 Swedish towns for 19 commodities from 1732 to 1914. The resulting large number of relative prices (502,689)...
View ArticleSocial Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville --...
An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near...
View ArticlePreference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender -- by Matthew...
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital...
View ArticleSecular Stagnation in the Open Economy -- by Gauti B. Eggertsson, Neil R....
Conditions of secular stagnation - low interest rates, below target inflation, and sluggish output growth - now characterize much of the global economy. We consider a simple two-country textbook model...
View ArticleSelective Hearing: Physician-Ownership and Physicians' Response to New...
Physicians, acting in their role as experts, are often faced with situations where they must trade off personal and patient welfare. Physicians' incentives vary based on the organizational environment...
View ArticleThe Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid...
We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on financial outcomes using credit report data for a large sample of individuals. We...
View ArticleOrganizational Complexity and Balance Sheet Management in Global Banks -- by...
Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational...
View ArticleThe Importance of Family Income in the Formation and Evolution of...
Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill formation. This is an important gap, as these skills have been hypothesized to be a...
View ArticleDecision Theoretic Approaches to Experiment Design and External Validity --...
A modern, decision-theoretic framework can help clarify important practical questions of experimental design. Building on our recent work, this chapter begins by summarizing our framework for...
View ArticleStirring Up a Hornets' Nest: Geographic Distribution of Crime -- by Sebastian...
This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. Agents select their occupation, residence, consumption, and housing. The paper is the first to formally study how...
View ArticleIntercontinental Exchange, Inc. Rule 2.10 Announcement
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (“ICE”) (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, confirms, in accordance with Rule 2.10 of the...
View ArticleDTCCâs Global Transaction Services Grow From Strength-To-Strength - 16%...
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Global Transaction Services, DTCC’s...
View ArticleVPS Cancel DEPEND Project
VPS, the Norwegian CSD, today cancelled the project to replace their core CSD system with Percival’s new jDEPEND product. VPS signed an agreement with Percival in November 2014 to port the successful...
View ArticleNinety-Seven Top CISI Exam Performers From Around The World Recognised At...
The CISI’s 23rd annual awards ceremony, held at the Mansion House in London, celebrated the achievements of the CISI’s exam candidates globally. Top performers from over 40,000 CISI exams taken in 80...
View ArticleSimCorp Paper Concludes Asset Managers Should Invest Now To Capture Future...
Challenges presented by the financial crisis have largely been met and firms need to focus on the positive long-term prospects despite short-term inhibitors to growth.read more...
View ArticleEBA Publishes End Of Term Report Of Its Banking Stakeholder Group (BSG)
The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued its Banking Stakeholder Group (BSG) end of term of office report. The document covers the outputs of the BSG for the second term of the Membership whose...
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