Arizona Moves One Step Closer to Accepting Bitcoin for Taxes
The Arizona Senate has cleared a bill that aims to allow residents in the state to pay their taxes with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleNew Jersey Issues Cease-and-Desist to Crypto Investment Firm
New Jersey regulators have sent a cease-and-desist letter to an online cryptocurrency investment site called Bitstrade.
View ArticleEthereum Devs Call for Public Debate on Fund Recovery
A controversial proposal that would seek to alter how ethereum's developers approach software changes saw debate at a meeting Friday.
View ArticleRussian Scientists Arrested for Crypto Mining at Nuclear Lab
Several scientists working at a Russian nuclear weapons research facility have been arrested for mining cryptocurrencies at the site.
View ArticleNvidia CEO Says Cryptocurrency Is 'Not Going to Go Away'
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang commented on the rise of cryptocurrencies in an interview Friday, saying they are "not going to go away."
View ArticleSEC Denies FOIA Request on Controversial Tezos ICO
The SEC's denial of a FOIA request for records about the troubled blockchain project does not state that Tezos is under investigation.
View ArticleHKEX To Reduce Multipliers Of 4 Stock Futures Contracts
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will reduce the multiplier of four of its stock futures contracts from 22 February 2018.read more...
View ArticleBcause LLC Opens Cryptocurrency Mining Facility - Largest Digital Mining Data...
Bcause LLC<http://www.bcause.com>, creator of the world's first full-stack cryptocurrency ecosystem, today announced that it has successfully launched its state-of-the-art cryptocurrency mining...
View ArticleHKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contract
Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Wednesday, 14...
View ArticleESMA: New Members Of The Securities And Markets Stakeholder Group
The ESMA Board of Supervisors has recently appointed the following four stakeholders to become members of the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG):read more...
View ArticleAl Mawared Brokerage's Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report 12 February 2018
Click here to download Al Mawared Brokerage's weekly report on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The Report is designed to give an overview of developments in the Jordan Capital Markets as well as ASE...
View ArticleSolactive Strikes Twice At The 15th Europe Structured Products &...
The 2018 SRP Europe Structured Products & Derivatives Awards, designed to recognize the best businesses in the structured products industry, have awarded Solactive first place in the two categories...
View ArticleClosure Of Bursa Malaysia Trading And Operations During Chinese New Year 2018
Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or “the Exchange”) will close for trading half day Thursday, 15 February 2018 afternoon, and all day Friday, 16 February 2018, in conjunction with...
View ArticleDo Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from...
This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We obtain variation in the benefits of schooling from the enactment of the Deferred...
View ArticleThe Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology...
Measurement of the full costs and benefits of energy-saving technologies is often difficult, confounding adoption decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in...
View ArticleThe Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training -- by...
We evaluate the causal impacts of on-the-job soft skills training on the productivity, wages, and retention of female garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and...
View ArticleThe Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence...
What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using...
View ArticleHow Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving,...
This paper explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, as compared to what in the past had been thought of as more "normal" financial...
View ArticleDesigning Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies -- by Ashley...
We analyze the efficient subsidy for durable good technologies. We theoretically demonstrate that a policymaker faces a tension between intertemporally price discriminating by designing a subsidy that...
View ArticleResources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa -- by Achyuta...
Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in potential conflict over such resources. The likelihood of conflict depends on...
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