School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance -- by Michael L. Anderson,...
Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity...
View ArticleThe Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production -- by Ellen R....
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are...
View ArticleFinancial Frictions and Employment during the Great Depression -- by Efraim...
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of...
View ArticleDoes Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts...
Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged...
View ArticleEconomic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities --...
The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or "repugnant". Not only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is...
View ArticleAre Larger Banks Valued More Highly? -- by Bernadette A. Minton, Rene M....
We investigate whether the value of large banks, defined as banks with assets in excess of the Dodd-Frank threshold for enhanced supervision, increases with the size of their assets using Tobin's q and...
View ArticleImpulsive Consumption and Financial Wellbeing: Evidence from an Increase in...
Increased availability of temptation goods might harm individuals if they have time-inconsistent preferences and consume more in the present than planned before. We study this idea by examining the...
View ArticleIsrael's Immigration Story: Globalization Lessons -- by Assaf Razin
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has received migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) at the rate of 17 percent of...
View ArticleInstrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking The Effect of Trade...
It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a final outcome. Using an Instrumental Variable (IV) identifies the...
View ArticleThe Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in...
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was...
View ArticleWhy Being Wrong can be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the...
Across human societies, one sees many examples of deeply rooted and widely-held beliefs that are almost certainly untrue. Examples include beliefs about witchcraft, magic, ordeals, and superstitions....
View ArticleFX Market Metrics: New Findings Based on CLS Bank Settlement Data -- by Joel...
Using a new and unique data set of foreign currency settlement instructions provided by CLS Bank, we investigate activity and liquidity in the foreign exchange market. In the major currency pairs, CLS...
View ArticleHow a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds
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View ArticleA former FBI informant reflects on her involvement with the Insider Trading...
A former FBI informant reflects on her involvement with the Insider Trading Industry https://t.co/QebWcE7Sbl http://pic.twitter.com/TwLpYMS5hm â Hedge Fundâ¦
View ArticleThe Cryptocurrency Funds Have Arrived, And They're Bringing Wall Street Money
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View ArticleTMX Group Patron Sponsor Of PDAC 2017
TMX Group, the global exchange leader in mining, is a patron sponsor of the 2017 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's (PDAC) International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange,...
View ArticleIntercontinental Exchange Announces Election Of Ann Cairns And Duriya...
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Ann...
View ArticleCFTC Announces Daniel J. Davis As General Counsel
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today announced that Daniel J. Davis has been named the agency’s General Counsel.read more...
View ArticleTMX Group Consolidated Trading Statistics - February 2017
TMX Group Limited today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX.read...
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