ESMA Study Shows Impact Of Short-Selling Disclosure On Investor Behaviour
The public disclosure of net short positions in EU shares influences investors’ behaviour, a recent study by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) findsread more...
View ArticleIndia’s Leading Direct-To-Home Television Provider, Dish TV, Lists GDRs...
London Stock Exchange Group today welcomes Dish TV’s Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) to trading on the Professional Securities Market. This follows the completed merger between Dish TV and Videocon...
View ArticleAbove $8K: Bitcoin Aims Higher After Price Breakout
Bitcoin looks north following a bullish technical breakout.
View ArticleBlockchain Motor Insurance Trial Moves Ahead in Hong Kong
A financial industry self-regulator in Hong Kong is developing a blockchain powered platform for the city's motor insurance sector.
View ArticleBitcoin Exchange Names Security Officer Suspect In $3.3 Million Theft
Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure has announced the theft of nearly $3.3 million in bitcoin.
View ArticleJapan's Financial Services Agency: The Seventh Meeting Of The "Study...
The "Study Group on the Financial System" under the Financial System Council will hold its seventh meeting on April 19th, 2018 as follows.read more...
View ArticleESMA Extends Its Operational-Risk Analysis
Developments such as the recent surges in cyber-attacks on financial firms, or technical glitches leading to flash crashes on trading venues, have heightened the sensitivity of market participants and...
View ArticleBermuda Wants Crypto Regulation to Fuel 'Phenomenal' Business Growth
The Bermuda Monetary Authority has published a consultation paper that is seeking public feedback on a proposed regulation on cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleKenya's Central Bank Chief Warns Again On Crypto Risks
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is now in line with other banks in blacklisting digital currencies and warns customers and banks dealing with it.
View ArticleBitcoin Thief Could Be Caned for $300K Robbery in Singapore
Two bitcoin brokers in Singapore were assaulted and robbed by nearly $300,000 in cash while meeting with a prospect bitcoin seller offline.
View ArticleMalawi Stock Exchange Weekly Trading Report - 13 April, 2018
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View ArticleForward Guidance -- by Marcus Hagedorn, Jinfeng Luo, Iourii Manovskii, Kurt...
We assess the power of forward guidance--promises about future interest rates--as a monetary tool in a liquidity trap using a quantitative incomplete-markets model. Our results suggest the effects of...
View ArticleSweat Equity in U.S. Private Business -- by Anmol Bhandari, Ellen R. McGrattan
In this paper, we first provide evidence that existing measures of business incomes and valuations based on widely-used surveys such as the Survey of Consumer Finances are mismeasured. We then develop...
View ArticleDoes Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers --...
The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by displacing better connected domestic scientists, thereby reducing localized...
View ArticleDeclining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Growth -- by Paolo Martellini,...
Over the last century, unemployment, vacancy, job-finding and job-loss rates as well as the Beveridge curve have no trend. Yet, the last century has seen the development and diffusion of many...
View ArticleCoordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates -- by Ramana Nanda,...
An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and agency problems between investors and entrepreneurs, examining how separating entrepreneurs from the investor can...
View ArticleFirm-Level Financial Resources and Environmental Spills -- by Jonathan Cohn,...
Using novel US environmental spill data, we document a robust negative relationship between the number of spills a firm experiences in a given year and its contemporaneous and lagged (but not future)...
View ArticleThe Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling -- by...
We study the short and long-term spillover effects of a pay reform that substantially increased the returns to schooling in Israeli kibbutzim. This pay reform, which induced kibbutz students to improve...
View ArticleUsing Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being --...
GDP and derived metrics (e.g., productivity) have been central to understanding economic progress and well-being. In principle, the change in consumer surplus (compensating expenditure) provides a...
View ArticleCorporate Foreign Bond Issuance and Interfirm Loans in China -- by Yi Huang,...
This paper uses firm-level data to document and analyze international bond issuance by Chinese non-financial corporations and the use of the proceeds of issuance. We find that dollar issuance is...
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