Global Financial Centres Index: London Remains On Top But We Await The Impact...
Today Z/Yen publishes the twentieth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 20). Z/Yen are delighted to be working in collaboration with the China Development Institute (CDI). The GFCI rates 87 financial...
View ArticleStock Exchange Of Thailand And Mutual Fund Participants Make Progress In Fund...
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the alliances in the mutual fund industry have jointly developed a fund service platform to help broaden channel access of mutual fund efficiently. The new...
View ArticleCBOE Holdings Agrees To Acquire Bats Global Markets To Strengthen CBOE...
CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) and Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, which has been approved by the Board of Directors of...
View ArticleCurveGlobal - Open Access Derivatives Venture Goes Live
CurveGlobal, the new interest rate derivatives venture developed by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) with a number of major dealer banks: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi,...
View ArticleThai Bourse To Revise Listing Criteria To Enhance Newly Listed...
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has amended the criteria for the new listing of securities on SET and Market for Alternative Investment (mai), aiming to enhance securities’ quality and increase...
View ArticleThai Alternative Bourse Highlights Role As Key Fundraising Source For SMEs
Market for Alternative Investment (mai) is committed to being a fundraising venue for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). So far this year nine firms have been listed on mai, six more initial...
View ArticleOccupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence...
As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational...
View ArticleChild Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United...
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks...
View ArticleMeasuring Effects of SNAP on Obesity at the Intensive Margin -- by Lorenzo N....
The effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on obesity have been the focus of much debate. However, causal interpretation of estimates from previous studies, comparing...
View ArticleUnderstanding why black women are not working longer -- by Joanna Lahey
Black women in current cohorts ages 50 to 72 years have lower employment than similar white women, despite having had higher employment when they were middle-aged and younger. Earlier cohorts of older...
View ArticleParental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins -- by...
We examine more than one million children whose parents won a state lottery to trace out the effect of additional household resources on college outcomes. The analysis draws on the universe of federal...
View ArticleWhy Do Estimates of the EMU Effect On Trade Vary so Much? -- by Andrew K. Rose
Larger data sets, with more countries and a longer span of time, exhibit systematically larger effects of European monetary union on trade. I establish this stylized fact with meta-analysis and confirm...
View ArticleAggregate Recruiting Intensity -- by Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey,...
We develop a model of firm dynamics with random search in the labor market where hiring firms exert recruiting effort by spending resources to fill vacancies faster. Consistent with micro evidence, in...
View ArticleGlobalization, Inequality and Welfare -- by Pol Antras, Alonso de Gortari,...
This paper studies the welfare implications of trade opening in a world in which trade raises aggregate income but also increases income inequality, and in which redistribution needs to occur via a...
View ArticleQuality Predictability and the Welfare Benefits from New Products: Evidence...
We explore the consequence of quality unpredictability for the welfare benefit of new products, using recent developments in recorded music as our context. Digitization has expanded consumption...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the Evidence on Micro-Financial Interventions -- by Francisco...
We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs, and assess our ability to account for this evidence using quantitative theory. Properly...
View ArticleIncentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts -- by Nicola Lacetera
Research shows that properly devised economic incentives increase the supply of blood without hampering its safety; similar effects may be expected also for other body parts such as bone marrow and...
View ArticleMismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search -- by Ioana Marinescu,...
Could we significantly reduce U.S. unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder.com, we show that, indeed, workers dislike...
View ArticleKuflink Integrates Contegoâs Multi-Source Identity Verification And...
Contego, the multi-source identity verification and risk-scoring platform, today has been appointed by Kuflink, the peer-to-peer lending platform, where loans are secured against UK based property, to...
View ArticleSWIFT Expands FX Portfolio With New Business Insights Information Service -...
SWIFT announces today that HSBC is the first customer to use its new FX Business Insights information service. The new FX service from SWIFT allows its customers to continuously measure their FX...
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