Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel...
The prescription drug component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI measures recent and past drug price changes, and provides the basis for projecting future price trends and health care expenditures....
View ArticleDelegating Tough Choices to Avoid Responsibility and Regret
Mary Steffel and Elanor Williams have published a study on delegation in the Journal of Consumer Research. They conducted a series of experimental studies to determine when and why consumers...
View ArticleSTOXX Launches First Global AI Index Based On AI Algorithm - New Index...
Today, STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, introduced the world’s first index that uses AI-related...
View ArticleSSRN Goes To Moscow
I just wrapped up a conference talk at the Gaidar Forum in Moscow. If there’s ever been doubt that SSRN is willing to go to great lengths for the sake of research, the freezing cold of winter in Russia...
View ArticleCFTC Cancels TAC Meeting Scheduled for January 23 to be Rescheduled
Due to a lapse in appropriations that occurred at midnight on January 19, 2018, the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 23rd is cancelled and will be rescheduled...
View ArticleCanadian Research Body Pilots Ethereum in Transparency Push
The National Research Council of Canada is trialing the ethereum blockchain for recording government contracts.
View ArticleTaskize And DTCC Collaborate On Trade Exception Solution
Taskize, the inter-bank problem-solving network for financial services operations, today announced that The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s DTCC Exception Manager solution is leveraging...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers – January 22, 2018
1. Undocumented Immigrants, U.S. Citizens, and Convicted Criminals in Arizona by John R. Lott (Crime Prevention Research Center)read more...
View ArticleChina Moves to Crack Down on Digital Currency Pyramid Schemes
China's public security ministry says it will take aim at pyramid schemes in the country, including those that purportedly involve cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleCFTC Cancels TAC Meeting Scheduled For January 23
Due to a lapse in appropriations that occurred at midnight on January 19, 2018, the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 23 is cancelled and will be rescheduled...
View ArticleStatement On Charges Against Former KPMG And PCAOB Personnel, SEC Chairman...
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC initiated enforcement actions against six former KPMG LLP and PCAOB personnel related to an alleged misappropriation of confidential PCAOB inspection...
View ArticleBNY Mellon To Launch FX Prime Brokerage Service
BNY Mellon has announced plans to address the increasingly complex and capital-constrained FX market by launching a prime brokerage service for its institutional clients. The service will launch in...
View ArticleSEC: Six Accountants Charged With Using Leaked Confidential PCAOB Data In...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against six certified public accountants – including former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and former...
View ArticleCharacterization of catastrophic instabilities: Market crashes as paradigm....
Catastrophic events, though rare, do occur and when they occur, they have devastating effects. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to understand the complexity of the underlying dynamics and...
View ArticleStrength Of UK Life Sciences Confirmed At Future Of Healthcare Investor Forum
London Stock Exchange Group hosts its fourth annual Future of Healthcare Investor Forum today to showcase the continued growth of the UK life sciences sector and its significance to the UK and wider...
View ArticleBDO Awards Outstanding Performers In ESG Reporting, Sees ESG Gaining Solid...
BDO Limited (BDO), the world's fifth largest accountancy network, is holding the awards presentation ceremony of the inaugural BDO ESG Awards today to recognise outstanding Hong Kong-listed companies...
View ArticleUK Financial Conduct Authority Fines Interactive Brokers (UK) Limited...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today imposed a financial penalty on Interactive Brokers (UK) (IBUK) in the amount of £1,049,412 for failings in its post-trade systems and controls for...
View ArticleFESE Response To ESMA Consultation On RTS 1
FESE strongly supports ESMA’s proposal to clarify that Systematic Internalisers’ quotes would only reflect prevailing market conditions where the price levels could be traded on a trading venue at the...
View ArticleBME: The Pre-Market Environment Welcomes New Participants
The 3rd Investor's Day of the companies that make up the Pre-Market Environment – a joint initiative by BME and Big Ban Angels which started in November 2016 to make it easier for start-ups to access...
View ArticleEx-CFTC Commissioner Joins Crypto Exchange as Regulatory Adviser
Bart Chilton, the former CFTC commissioner, is now taking his regulatory expertise to decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Omega One.
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