Dalian Commodity Exchange Revises Relevant Rules In Risk Management Measures
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) issued a notice to revise the rules for the trading margin rates and the price limits in the situation of consecutive price limits on the same direction. The revised...
View ArticleTokyo Commodity Exchange: Inhibition Of Implied Function (Bait Order...
The next generation system is slated to go live at TOCOM on Tuesday, September 20. In order to assure its stable operation, the Exchange will temporarily inhibit implied function (bait order...
View ArticleChanges To The Monetary Authority Of Singapore Board Of Directors
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that Mr Ong Ye Kung, Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, will be...
View ArticleSGX Launches SGX APAC Ex Japan Dividend Leaders REIT Index
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the launch of the SGX APAC ex Japan Dividend Leaders REIT Index, composed of 30 real estate investment trusts (REITs) across the Asia Pacific ex Japan region....
View ArticleClosing Calls Good For UAE Markets - University Of Wollongong Study Shows...
Professor Alex Frino, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Economics at the University of Wollongong Dubai, has released the results of a study into the impact of closing calls on market quality in...
View Article29Aug/Implementation of Basel standards - A report to G20 Leaders on...
The report summarises the steps taken by Basel Committee member jurisdictions to adopt the Basel III standards, banks' progress in bolstering their capital and liquidity positions, the consistency of...
View Article29Aug/Basel III implementation: Basel Committee reports to G20 Leaders
Press release about the Basel Committee reporting to G20 Leaders on Basel III implementation (29 August 2016)
View ArticleAfrica's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend -- by David E. Bloom,...
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will...
View ArticleMatch or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and...
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori...
View ArticleDo Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores? -- by Anna...
We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005....
View ArticleThe Economic Consequences of the 1953 London Debt Agreement -- by Gregori...
In 1953 the Western Allied powers implemented a radical debt-relief plan that would, in due course, eliminate half of West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment...
View ArticleSocial Capital, Trust and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth -- by Kirk...
We combine theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given what we have learned in the...
View ArticleThe Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth -- by Canyon Bosler, Mary C. Daly,...
Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong--defying nearly all earlier projections--and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture....
View ArticleSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: Medical Marijuana Laws and Tobacco Use -- by Anna...
This study comprehensively examines whether medical marijuana laws (MMLs) have affected the trajectory of a decades-long decline in adult tobacco use in the United States. Using data from three large...
View ArticleWho Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from...
Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration...
View ArticleWhat Goes on Under the Hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply...
The questions addressed in this volume are motivated by the recognition that engineers play an important role in generating innovation and economic growth. In this chapter, we seek to offer some...
View ArticleMultinational Firms and International Business Cycle Transmission -- by...
We investigate how multinational firms contribute to the transmission of shocks across countries using a large multi-country firm-level dataset that contains cross-border ownership information. We use...
View ArticleTokyo Commodity Exchange: Trading And Rules Under The Next Generation System...
TOCOM next generation trading system is slated to go live on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. read more...
View ArticleSGX Announcement-Appointment Of Chairman
The Directors of Singapore Exchange (SGX) are pleased to announce their election of Mr Kwa Chong Seng to succeed Mr Chew Choon Seng as Chairman of the Board.read more...
View ArticleSEC: Investor Protection In The Municipal Securities Markets, Rick A....
Thank you, Lynnette [Kelly], for that kind introduction and for inviting me to participate in your event today. It has been a pleasure to spend time with a variety of regulators who are on the front...
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