IBM, Comcast Back New Blockchain Startup Fund
IBM and Comcast Ventures are backing a blockchain investment fund aiming to scale early stage start-ups focused on enterprises.
View ArticleIndian Lawyer Files Petition Demanding Cryptocurrency Regulations
An Indian lawyer has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to force action on the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the country.
View ArticleBig Data and The Analytics Paradox
Kellogg School Professor Eric Anderson describes an interesting phenomenon that he calls the âAnalytics Paradox.â Anyone grappling with how their firm employs data science as part of their...
View ArticleEnvironmental Externalities and Free-riding in the Household -- by Kelsey...
Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second externality problem: with household-level billing, each person enjoys private benefits of...
View ArticleEducation Reform in General Equilibrium: Evidence from California's Class...
This paper sheds new light on general equilibrium responses to major education reforms, focusing on a sorting mechanism likely to operate whenever a reform improves public school quality significantly....
View ArticleDo Black Politicians Matter? -- by Trevon D. Logan
This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral...
View ArticleWhat Can UWE Do for Economics? -- by Tatyana Avilova, Claudia Goldin
Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The...
View ArticleDeaths of Despair or Drug Problems? -- by Christopher J. Ruhm
The United States is in the midst of a fatal drug epidemic. This study uses data from the Multiple Cause of Death Files to examine the extent to which increases in county-level drug mortality rates...
View ArticleDistrust and Political Turnover -- by Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian, Jaya Wen
We present findings that document one way in which a society's culture can affect political outcomes. Examining an annual panel of democratic countries over six decades, we show that severe economic...
View ArticleOn the Measurement of Upstreamness and Downstreamness in Global Value Chains...
This paper offers four contributions to the empirical literature on global value chains (GVCs). First, we provide a succinct overview of several measures developed to capture the upstreamness or...
View ArticleQuality of Public Governance and the Capital Structure of Nations and Firms...
This paper examines the role of public governance quality in determining the composition of a country's external liabilities and the capital structure of firms. In our theory, better institutional...
View ArticleSubways and Urban Air Pollution -- by Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, Marco...
We investigate the relationship between the opening of a city's subway network and its air quality. We find that particulate concentrations drop by 4% in a 10km radius disk surrounding a city center...
View ArticleThe Fragility of Market Risk Insurance -- by Ralph Koijen, Motohiro Yogo
Insurers sell retail financial products called variable annuities that package mutual funds with minimum return guarantees over long horizons. Variable annuities accounted for $1.5 trillion or 34...
View ArticleThe Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality:...
We exploit quasi-experimental variation in assignment of rent control to study its impacts on tenants, landlords, and the overall rental market. Leveraging new data tracking individuals' migration, we...
View ArticleAre Lemons Sold First? Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market -- by Manuel...
A central result in the theory of adverse selection in asset markets is that informed sellers can signal quality and obtain higher prices by delaying trade. This paper provides some of the first...
View ArticleImpact Evaluation in Matching Markets with General Tie-Breaking -- by Atila...
Many centralized matching schemes incorporate a mix of random lottery and non-lottery tie-breaking. A leading example is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores...
View ArticleAl Mawared's Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report, 8 January 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 ArticleA 9-Month Review Of Tehran Stock Exchange
During the first 9 months of the current Iranian year (21 March-22 December 2017) more than 28% of trading was on-line based.read more...
View ArticleMillennium Exchange Oslo Børs â Launch Of Turquoise Lit...
Oslo Børs will finalize the implementation of Turquoise Lit Auctions™ on Oslo Børs-functionality by populating auction orderbooks, active as of Friday 12 January 2018. read more...
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