Taiwan Stock Exchange: Eight More Products Added To Taiwan’s ETF...
The ETF universe available on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) has expanded rapidly in October. Since the beginning of the month, eight ETFs have listed on the Taiwan capital market, including the...
View ArticleBNP Paribas Consolidates Its Global Listed Derivatives Services
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking today announced that it has consolidated its global listed derivatives services onto a single, standardised platform hosted by Fidessa.read more...
View ArticleOslo Børs To List Derivatives On Aker BP
From 17 October options, forwards and futures will be listed on Aker BP as the underlying share.read more...
View ArticleThai Bourse Appoints New Executive In Charge Of Corporate Strategy
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has appointed Chirathep Senivongs as Executive Vice President (EVP), Corporate Strategy Division, to oversee international relations, effective from November 1,...
View ArticleR.J. O’Brien Hires Staniford To Lead Institutional Business Development...
Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, announced today the appointment of industry veteran...
View ArticleWhen Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic...
Branded pharmaceutical manufacturers frequently offer "copay coupons'" that insulate consumers from cost-sharing, thereby undermining insurers' ability to influence drug utilization. We study the...
View ArticleIdeological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians...
Do online communities segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? We analyze the contributors of...
View ArticleMacrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts -- by Oscar Jorda,...
In advanced economies, a century-long near-stable ratio of credit to GDP gave way to rapid financialization and surging leverage in the last forty years. This "financial hockey stick" coincides with...
View ArticleMinimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards -- by Benjamin J....
Using a dataset covering one quarter of the U.S. general-purpose credit card market, we document that 29% of accounts regularly make payments at or near the minimum payment. We exploit changes in...
View ArticleCurrent Account Deficits During Heightened Risk: Menacing or Mitigating? --...
Large current account deficits, and the corresponding reliance on capital flows from abroad, can increase a country's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a...
View ArticleAn Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty -- by Steven J. Davis
Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices...
View ArticleInfluencing Connected Legislators -- by Marco Battaglini, Eleonora Patacchini
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure...
View ArticleChanges in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of...
We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force participation. We first document these relationships using data from the 1986 to 2008 waves...
View ArticleBalance Sheet Effects on Monetary and Financial Spillovers: The East Asian...
We study how the financial conditions in the Center Economies [the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area] impact other countries over the period 1986 through 2015. Our methodology relies upon a two-step...
View ArticleMarket Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century -- by...
We examine the evolution of market potential over the long twentieth century from 1900 to 2010. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used...
View ArticleNecessity as the Mother of Invention: Monetary Policy after the Crisis -- by...
We ask whether recent changes in monetary policy due to the financial crisis will be temporary or permanent. We present evidence from two surveys--one of central bank governors, the other of academic...
View ArticleMoney or Grit? Determinants of MisMatch by Race and Gender -- by Russell...
This paper studies mismatch in educational attainment. Mismatch arises when high ability individuals do not obtain a college degree and/or low ability individuals do obtain such a degree. Using data...
View ArticleA Distribution-Neutral Perspective On Tax Expenditure Limitations -- by Louis...
A recent wave of literature, partly motivated by presidential campaign tax reform plans, analyzes tax expenditure limitation proposals. These reforms are often advanced not only, or even primarily,...
View ArticleFIA Launches Interactive SEF Tracker
FIA announced the launch of an online tool to track and visualize trading activity on swap execution facilities (SEFs). The new interactive version of FIA SEF Tracker uses Tableau data visualization...
View ArticleThe MiG Report September 2016
Please click here for the September 2016 MiG Report. read more...
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