Obama hosts US debt talks summit
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are to hold talks at the White House in an effort to strike a deal to end a dispute over the deficit.
View Articlefin_tech: Programming in R / S+ - Useful Books: http://bit.ly/rlx3mr - Thanks...
fin_tech: Programming in R / S+ - Useful Books: http://bit.ly/rlx3mr - Thanks to Patrick Burns @PortfolioProbe for suggestions #rstats
View ArticlePath properties and regularity of affine processes on general state spaces....
We provide a new proof for regularity of affine processes on general state spaces by methods from the theory of Markovian semimartingales. On the way to this result we also show that the definition of...
View ArticleDoes price regulation affect the adoption of new pharmaceuticals?
Joan Costa-i-Font, Alistair McGuire, Nebibe Varol, 8 July 2011Pharmaceutical price regulations make drugs more accessible to consumers â if the products are brought to market. This column explores...
View ArticleIs faster trade more trade? Evidence from EU enlargement
CecÃlia Hornok, 9 July 2011Trade barriers that delay transactions are like sand in the wheels of a global economy in which firms trade frequently and international production is fragmented. This...
View ArticleWhy the global financial crisis has been wasted
Nauro F Campos, Jeffrey B Nugent, 10 July 2011If economic crises make the short-run pains of reforms easier to bear, then crises could yield considerable long-run benefits. But this column argues that...
View ArticlePrivate policing and public safety
Philip Cook, John MacDonald, 10 July 2011In the US, more people work in private security than in all police forces combined, yet public debate about crime prevention typically looks at the use of...
View ArticleWhy banks are under-taxed and what to do about it
Harry Huizinga, Wolf Wagner, 11 July 2011What new policies should be included in financial and regulatory reforms? This column argues that banks are under-taxed along many dimensions and analyses a...
View ArticleTesting an S&P 500 prediction
If a particular prediction comes true, how surprised should we be?read more...
View ArticleCrime In America Pays â JP Morgan Settles Municipal Bond Bid Rigging...
Inner city youth sell crack on the street corner many times because it is the only available option to make a living wage. And that dynamic might involve the breakdown of the family unit due to lack...
View ArticleCFTC â Oil & Commodities Futures Manipulated By Financial Predators
Itâs nice to see that the regulatory agency responsible for commodities futures oversight for all markets in the United States has finally acknowledged what we have been saying since starting this...
View ArticlePresident Obama Offers Up Cuts To Medicare And Social Security To Save The...
More Privatizing Gains While Socializing Losses. Might I add, socializing losses onto the backs of the most underprivileged people in our society. People who are usually underprivileged because they...
View ArticleCommodities: Copper Update
Over the years we have written a lot about copper on here. Pairs trading, economic utility, Chileâs equity market and economy, stock market indicator, economic indicator, etc. This is all a rehash...
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Daredevil CEOs, Options, and Risk
Wharton Professor Todd Gormley, Northwestern's David Matsa, and Washington University of St. Louis' Todd Milbourn have published a new paper titled "CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence...
View ArticleNew Analytic Approach to Address PutâCall Parity Violation due to...
Applied Mathematical Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-22, Ahead of Print.
View Articlehedgefundfocus: CAIA Association Partners with Cass Business School on...
hedgefundfocus: CAIA Association Partners with Cass Business School on Alternative Investment Education - http://bit.ly/rf9Nq4
View ArticleEmanuelDerman: http://t.co/JuDMkbj. Behavioral hype. Web subscriptions for...
EmanuelDerman: http://t.co/JuDMkbj. Behavioral hype. Web subscriptions for years have set defaults that suit them and force you to unsubscribe to emails.
View ArticleEmanuelDerman: @umairh Old generation has to die out. Israelites 40 yrs in...
EmanuelDerman: @umairh Old generation has to die out. Israelites 40 yrs in the desert necessary.
View ArticleEmanuelDerman: For tropical climes ⦠Why does no one sell an...
EmanuelDerman: For tropical climes ⦠Why does no one sell an undershirt that is the intersection of the T-shirt and a wifebeater? The U-(for Umlaut)-Shirt
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