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View ArticleHKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts
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 Tuesday, 16 February...
View ArticleAsset Pricing When Traders Sell Extreme Winners and Losers
This study investigates the asset pricing implications of a newly documented refinement of the disposition effect, characterized by investors being more likely to sell a security when the magnitude of...
View ArticleDisclosure Standards and the Sensitivity of Returns to Mood
We provide evidence that higher-quality disclosure standards are associated with stock returns that are less sensitive to noise driven by investors' moods. We identify return-mood sensitivity (RMS)...
View ArticleComment By John Thanassoulis, Professor Of Financial Economics At Warwick...
Commenting on HSBC opting to stay in London rather than move abroad, John Thanassoulis, Professor of Financial Economics at Warwick Business School and an expert on the banking sector, has made the...
View ArticleBetter Finance: EU Authorities Must Disclose The Falsely Active Funds...
On 11 February 2016 Better Finance sent an open letter to the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) and to the Commissioner for Financial...
View ArticleFrom February's Trading Places: In Patrickâs Opinion -...
Funny things cycles. Even odder thing, the weird way cycles impact the world of finance and indeed the parish of exchanges. Way back when, I spent more than a few months being roundly abused by the...
View ArticleJapanâs Financial Services Agency: The Third Meeting Of The Working...
The Working Group on Corporate Disclosure of the Financial System Council will hold its third meeting on February 19th, 2016 as follows.read more...
View ArticleBursa Malaysia Securities Reprimands, Fines And Suspends Long Jin Seng For...
Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (635998-W) (Bursa Malaysia Securities) has publicly reprimanded, imposed a fine of RM30,000 and suspended/restricted (as the case may be) Long Jin Seng (LONG) for 6...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse Cash Market: New PowerShares ETF On Xetra...
A new index fund from the ETF offering of PowerShares Global Funds has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday, 15 February. ETF name: PowerShares EURO STOXX High Dividend Low...
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Race to the top: The Duel between Alphabet and Apple!
Apple and Alphabet, the two companies jockeying for the prize of âlargest market cap company in the worldâ are both incredibly successful businesses, with unparalleled cash machines (the iPhone...
View ArticleSolution Methods for Models with Rare Disasters -- by Jesus...
This paper compares different solution methods for computing the equilibrium of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with rare disasters along the line of those proposed by Rietz...
View ArticleJust Starting Out: Learning and Equilibrium in a New Market -- by Ulrich...
We document the evolution of the newly created market for frequency response within the UK electricity system over a six-year period. Firms competed in price while facing considerable initial...
View ArticleThe Mobility of Elite Life Scientists: Professional and Personal Determinants...
As scientists' careers unfold, mobility can allow researchers to find environments where they are more productive and more effectively contribute to the generation of new knowledge. In this paper, we...
View ArticleEffect of International Competition on Firm Productivity and Market Power --...
We propose a framework to evaluate the potential impact of international competition on firm performance and highlight two points. First, it is important to consider effects on productive efficiency...
View ArticleThe Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop and ESBies -- by Markus K. Brunnermeier,...
We propose a simple model of the sovereign-bank diabolic loop, and establish four results. First, the diabolic loop can be avoided by restricting banks' domestic sovereign exposures relative to their...
View ArticleWho Benefits from Calorie Labeling? An Analysis of its Effects on Body Mass...
This study uses county-level variation in implementation of calorie labeling laws in the US to identify the effects of such laws on body mass. Using the 2003 to 2012 waves of the Behavioral Risk Factor...
View ArticleWhat has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers...
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top...
View ArticleIncluding Health Insurance in Poverty Measurement: The Impact of...
We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM)--a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and...
View ArticleMicro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity -- by Arnaud...
The empirical observation that "large firms tend to export, whereas small firms do not" has transformed the way economists think about the determinants of international trade. Yet, it has had...
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