Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the worldâs most important number...
Long Read: Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number https://t.co/0wJn4TmjO3 — moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 20, 2017
View ArticleNonprofit Kit For Dummies, 5th Edition
Need practical advice on running a nonprofit? No problem! Packed with the latest tips and techniques on starting and managing a charitable organization, this easy-to-follow guide offers everything you...
View ArticleLinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies
Your LinkedIn profile is essentially a platform to shape how others see you, highlight your abilities, products, or services, and explain how your work impacts lives. Yet many people simply copy and...
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Call Me When You Have A Real Insurance Company!
Photo Credit: eflon || The title of the article comes from a comment Greenberg supposedly made to Buffett when AIG was much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway — times change…read more...
View ArticleThat Whole Oculus Lawsuit Hinges on What Makes Code âNewâ
What exactly does it mean to steal code? https://t.co/OQtczXQauQ — Financial Technology (@fin_tech) January 21, 2017
View ArticleBank monitoring incentives under moral hazard and adverse selection....
In this paper, we extend the optimal securitization model of Pag\`es [41] and Possama\"i and Pag\`es [42] between an investor and a bank to a setting allowing both moral hazard and adverse selection....
View ArticleThe Value of Timing Risk. (arXiv:1701.05695v1 [q-fin.PR])
The aim of this paper is to provide a mathematical contribution on the semi-static hedge of timing risk associated to positions in American-style options under a multi-dimensional market model. Barrier...
View ArticleThe Internet as Quantitative Social Science Platform: Insights from a...
With the large-scale penetration of the internet, for the first time, humanity has become linked by a single, open, communications platform. Harnessing this fact, we report insights arising from a...
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London Metal Exchange Chief Executive retires
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), The London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear (LMEC) (wholly-owned subsidiaries of HKEX) announced today (Monday) that Garry Jones, the LME’s Chief...
View ArticleSocial Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election -- by Hunt Allcott, Matthew...
We present new evidence on the role of false stories circulated on social media prior to the 2016 US presidential election. Drawing on audience data, archives of fact-checking websites, and results...
View ArticleHow Do Patents Affect Research Investments? -- by Heidi L. Williams
While patent systems have been widely used both historically and internationally, there is nonetheless a tremendous amount of controversy over whether patent systems - in practice - improve the...
View ArticleWhen Children Rule: Parenting in Modern Families -- by Sebastian Galiani,...
During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been...
View ArticleDesigning Women: Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United...
Economic studies typically underestimate incremental changes in consumer goods and design innovations that enhance allocative efficiency and structural dynamics. This paper assesses over 12,000...
View ArticleRegressive Sin Taxes -- by Benjamin B. Lockwood, Dmitry Taubinsky
A common objection to "sin taxes"--corrective taxes on goods like cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks, which are believed to be over-consumed--is that they fall disproportionately on low-income...
View ArticleHeterogeneity of the educational system: an introduction to the problem....
We analyze a heterogeneity of the educational system on the basis of one parameter: input grades of university students. We propose a mathematical model based on the construction of universities...
View ArticleAn analysis of potential conflict zones in the arctic region....
As a result of the climate change the situation in Arctic area leads to several important consequences. On the one hand, oil and gas resources can be exploited much easier than before. Thus, one can...
View ArticleResearch and Teaching Efficiencies of Turkish Universities with Heterogeneity...
The research and teaching efficiencies of 45 Turkish state universities are evaluated by using Multi-Activity Data Envelopment Analysis (MA-DEA) model developed by Beasley (1995). Universities are...
View ArticlePremium valuation for a multiple state model containing manifold premium-paid...
The aim of this contribution is to derive a general matrix formula for the net period premium paid in more than one state. For this purpose we propose to combine actuarial technics with the graph...
View ArticleDay of the Week Effect in biotechnology stocks: An Application of the GARCH...
This study examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect on daily returns of biotechnology stocks over a 16-year period from January 2002 to December 2015. Using daily returns from the NASDAQ...
View ArticleTime Series Copulas for Heteroskedastic Data. (arXiv:1701.07152v1 [stat.AP])
We propose parametric copulas that capture serial dependence in stationary heteroskedastic time series. We develop our copula for first order Markov series, and extend it to higher orders and...
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