Rethinking Deindustrialization -- by Andrew B. Bernard, Valerie Smeets,...
Manufacturing in high-income countries is on the decline and Denmark is no exception. Manufacturing employment and the number of firms have been shrinking as a share of the total and in absolute...
View ArticleField Experiments in Markets -- by Omar Al-Ubaydli, John A. List
This is a review of the literature of field experimental studies of markets. The main results covered by the review are as follows: (1) Generally speaking, markets organize the efficient exchange of...
View ArticleInteractions Between Family and School Environments: Evidence on Dynamic...
This paper explores whether conditions during early childhood affect the productivity of later human capital investments. We use Romanian administrative data to ask if the benefit of access to better...
View ArticleThe Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research...
New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as "Big Data" have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the...
View ArticleThe March of the Techies: Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France,...
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations...
View Article30Mar/Can a bank run be stopped? Government guarantees and the run on...
This paper analyzes the run on Continental Illinois in 1984. We find that the run slowed but did not stop following an extraordinary government intervention, which included the guarantee of all...
View Article30Mar/The causal effect of house prices on mortgage demand and mortgage...
We identify the causal effect of house prices on mortgage demand and supply in Switzerland by exploiting exogenous shocks to immigration and thereby to house prices. Detailed micro data on individual...
View ArticleMNI Russia Business Sentiment Indicator: Russian Business Sentiment Climbs To...
Russian business sentiment picked up markedly in March, with increased optimism helping to push many other areas of the survey closer to the neutral mark and in some cases into expansionary territory....
View ArticleAnnual Meeting Of NZX Shareholders
NZX is today giving notice that the 13th Annual Meeting of shareholders of NZX Limited will be held in the Pakuranga Hunt Room at the Ellerslie Event Centre, Ellerslie Racecourse, Level 2, 80 Ascot...
View ArticleState Street Investor Confidence Index: Investor Confidence Rises In March By...
State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for March 2016.read more...
View ArticleEBS BrokerTec And ICAP Information Services Launch Sterling Repo Index Rate
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business and ICAP Information Services (IIS), the information division of ICAP, announce today that they have...
View Article30Mar/2016 Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and OTC...
Press release about "2016 Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and OTC Derivatives Markets" (30 March 2016)
View ArticleUK's Financial Conduct Authority: Overall Complaints Fell By 1.4%, Driven By...
Financial services firms received 2.11 million new complaints between July and December 2015, according to new complaints data published today by the Financial Conduct Authority.read more...
View ArticleDuco Recognised As One Of Europe's Top Fintech Firms
Duco, a global provider of award-winning data control services, has been named in the European FinTech Top 100, a list of the most promising and innovative fintech companies across the continent.read...
View ArticleEurex Clearing To Launch New Access Model - ISA Direct Service To Be Offered...
Eurex Clearing, Europe’s leading clearinghouse and part of Deutsche Börse Group, today announced its plan to launch a new membership type that allows buy-side participants to have a direct contractual...
View ArticleEuronext Completes Interbolsa Migration To Pan-European Securities Settlement...
Euronext announces that the Portuguese Central Securities Depository Interbolsa, a subsidiary of Euronext Lisbon, has successfully completed the migration to TARGET2-Securities (T2S), one of the...
View ArticleITG Names Andrew Larkin to Lead POSIT Alert Coverage Team
NEW YORK, March 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced Andrew J. Larkin will be rejoining the firm on April 11,...
View ArticleNetflix: Geography, Age, Gender Not Good Predictors
David Morris wrote an article this week for Fortune titled, "Netflix: Geography, Age, and Gender are 'Garbage' for Predicting Taste." Morris writes, "'Geography, age, and gender? We put that in the...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse Cash Market: db x-trackers Harvest FTSE China A-H...
The db x-trackers Harvest FTSE China A-H 50 Index UCITS ETF (DR) has enabled European investors to participate for the first time in the performance of the Chinese FTSE China A-H 50 Index via physical...
View ArticleBlackRock Launches Retail And Institutional Offering In South Africa
BlackRock has received approval to offer a range of offshore funds to South African investors. Local institutional investors, including asset managers, retirement funds and insurance companies, as well...
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