Opera Browser Adds Cryptocurrency Miner Protection for Smartphones
The Opera web browser is now protecting smartphones from cryptocurrency miners embedded in websites, the company says.
View ArticleShanghai Futures Exchange: Notice On Enforcement By The Exchange Against Rule...
The enforcement by the Exchange against rule violations during 2017 is as follows:read more...
View ArticleUBS 2017 Reported PBT Up 32% YoY To CHF 5.4bn
UBS delivered excellent full-year 2017 results with adjusted1 profit before tax up 19% year over year to CHF 6,335m and reported profit before tax up 32% to CHF 5,409m. Net profit attributable to...
View ArticleThe BTL Interbit Blockchain Platform To Drive Next Phase Of Energy Trading...
BTL GROUP LTD. (TSX Venture: BTL) (“BTL” or “The Company”) is pleased to provide further information on the next phase of its previously announced European energy trading project, under which four oil...
View ArticleETFGI Reports That Assets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed In Asia Pacific...
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) increased by...
View ArticlePEGAS Sets Again A New High In 2017
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, achieved its best trading results in 2017 by reaching a new record with 1,953.9 TWh , improving its previous record (1,733.3 TWh in...
View ArticleETFGI Reports That Assets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed In Latin America...
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Latin America increased by 45.8%...
View ArticleUK's Financial Conduct Authority Consults On Widening Access To The Financial...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today launched a consultationon plans to give more small businesses access to the Financial Ombudsman Service (the Ombudsman). This follows a review of the...
View ArticleETFGI Reports That Assets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed In Middle East And...
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Middle East and Africa increased by...
View ArticleWage Dynamics and Returns to Unobserved Skill -- by Lance Lochner, Youngmin...
Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the U.S. over the past few decades. We identify and estimate a general model of log wage residuals...
View ArticleChildren and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark -- by Henrik Kleven,...
Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that...
View ArticlePrices or Quantities Dominate Banking and Borrowing -- by Martin L. Weitzman
The possibility of intertemporal banking and borrowing of tradeable permits is often viewed as tilting the various policy debates about optimal pollution control instruments toward favoring such...
View ArticleSources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses -- by Marta...
We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly...
View ArticleIdentification and Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macroeconomics...
An exciting development in empirical macroeconometrics is the increasing use of external sources of as-if randomness to identify the dynamic causal effects of macroeconomic shocks. This approach - the...
View ArticleWhy Are Professors "Poorly Paid"? -- by Daniel S. Hamermesh
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that...
View ArticleEndogenous and Selective Service Choices After Airline Mergers -- by Sophia...
We estimate a model of service choice and price competition in airline markets, allowing for the carriers that provide nonstop service to be a selected subset of the carriers competing in the market....
View ArticleCorporate Credit Risk Premia -- by Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Darrell...
We measure credit risk premia - prices for bearing corporate default risk in excess of expected default losses - using Markit CDS and Moody's Analytics EDF data. We find dramatic variation over time in...
View ArticleE-cigarettes and Adult Smoking -- by Henry Saffer, Daniel Dench, Dhaval Dave,...
Over the past few years adult use of e-cigs has been increasing while adult smoking has been declining. It is important to determine if there is a causal effect of e-cig use on smoking because of the...
View ArticleThe Distributional Effects of Building Energy Codes -- by Christopher D....
State-level building energy codes have been around for over 40 years, but recent empirical research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. A potential virtue of standards-based policies is that they...
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