CFTC Charges Options Trader Thomas C. Lindstrom with Fraud
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement Complaint, charging Thomas C. Lindstrom, of Winnetka, Illinois, with fraud in connection with his trading of options on...
View ArticleCadillac Fairview And TMX Group Announce Lease Agreement In Montréal -...
Cadillac Fairview and TMX Group are proud to announce today the signing of a long-term lease agreement to relocate the Montréal Exchange (MX) to Deloitte Tower in 2018. MX and the Montréal offices of...
View ArticleCanadian Securities Regulators Provide Update On Consideration Of Concerns...
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published CSA Staff Notice 45-308 (Revised) – Guidance for Preparing and Filing Reports of Exempt Distribution under National Instrument 45-106...
View ArticleSEC: Och-Ziff Hedge Fund Settles FCPA Charges - Och-Ziff Executives Also...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Och-Ziff Capital Management Group has agreed to pay nearly $200 million to the SEC to settle civil charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt...
View ArticleSwedroe: ‘Incredible Shrinking Alpha’ Continues | ETF.com
Swedroe: âIncredible Shrinking Alphaâ Continues | ETF.com: "Highlighting the problem of survivorship bias, over the five-year period, nearly 21% of domestic equity funds, 21% of...
View ArticleCanadian Securities Regulators Issue Guidance On Derivatives Reporting...
Staff of the securities regulators in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Yukon...
View ArticleSEC Announces Agenda For October 5 Meeting Of The Advisory Committee On Small...
Use the SEC’s Internet submission form or send an e-mail to rule-comments@sec.gov.read more...
View ArticleAMF Officials To Head Major IOSCO Committee
The Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) is pleased to announce that Jean-François Fortin, Executive Director, Enforcement, and Jean Lorrain, Senior Director, International Relations and...
View ArticleQuantitative Trade Models: Developments and Challenges -- by Timothy J....
Applied general equilibrium (AGE) models, which feature multiple countries or regions, multiple sectors, and input-output linkages across sectors in a Walrasian general equilibrium framework, have been...
View ArticleThe Politics of FDI Expropriation -- by Marina Azzimonti
I examine the role of political instability as a potential explanation for the lack of capital flows from rich countries to poor countries (i.e. the `Lucas Paradox'). Using panel data from 1984 to...
View ArticleDeconstructing Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1983 - 2013 --...
I use the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to analyze wealth trends from 1983 to 2013. Asset prices plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013. Median wealth plummeted by 44...
View ArticleReputation Cycles -- by Boyan Jovanovic, Julien Prat
This paper shows that endogenous cycles can arise when contracts between firms and their customers are incomplete and when products are experience goods. Then firms invest in the quality of their...
View ArticleSubsidy Policies and Insurance Demand -- by Jing Cai, Alain de Janvry,...
Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately zero take-up rate at market price. This has led governments and donors to provide...
View ArticleSecuring Property Rights -- by Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,...
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong--the state or its powerful citizens--against the weak. We...
View ArticleWhat is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-term Impacts and Interactions with...
We study the impact of targeted high quality preschool over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from...
View ArticleHouse Valuations and Economic Growth: Some International Evidence -- by...
This paper evaluates the relation between house prices and economic growth. Using a dataset that covers house prices for 19 countries from the first quarter of 1975 to the third quarter of 2013. We...
View ArticleTeaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College...
Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the...
View ArticleImpediments to Financial Trade: Theory and Applications -- by Nicolae...
We propose a tractable model of an informationally inefficient market featuring non-revealing prices, no noise traders, and general assumptions on preferences and payoff distributions. We show the...
View ArticleLoan Product Steering in Mortgage Markets -- by Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin,...
We present evidence of a particular type of loan steering in which lenders lead borrowers to take out high margin mortgage products. We identify this activity by comparing borrowers who were rejected...
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