Risk Management with Supply Contracts -- by Heitor Almeida, Kristine Watson...
Purchase obligations are forward contracts with suppliers and are used more broadly than traded commodity derivatives. This paper is the first to document that these contracts are a risk management...
View ArticleTradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence...
In this paper, we show that labor-market adjustment to immigration differs across tradable and nontradable occupations. Theoretically, we derive a simple condition under which the arrival of...
View ArticleHow the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and...
Older Americans have experienced dramatic gains in life expectancy in recent decades, but an emerging literature reveals that these gains are accumulating mostly to those at the top of the income...
View ArticleFirm Heterogeneity in Skill Demands -- by David Deming, Lisa B. Kahn
We study variation in skill demands across firms and labor markets using job vacancy postings. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ten general skills. We find a positive...
View ArticleDid the Reform Fix the London Fix Problem? -- by Takatoshi Ito, Masahiro Yamada
This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which resulted from finding and imposing a penalty on banks' collusive behavior around the...
View ArticleEstimating the Gains from New Rail Transit Investment: A Machine Learning...
Urban rail transit investments are expensive and irreversible. Since people differ with respect to their demand for trips, their value of time, and the types of real estate they live in, such projects...
View ArticleIs Europe an Optimal Political Area? -- by Alberto Alesina, Guido Tabellini,...
Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel...
View ArticleOffshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement -- by Fatih...
Official statistics display a significant slowdown in U.S. aggregate productivity growth that begins in 2004. In this paper, we investigate a source of mismeasurement in official statistics, which...
View ArticleChina's GDP Growth May be Understated -- by Hunter Clark, Maxim Pinkovskiy,...
Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent...
View ArticleEvolution of Assessments of the Economics of Global Warming: Changes in the...
Many areas of the natural and social sciences involve complex systems that link together multiple sectors. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are approaches that integrate knowledge from two or more...
View ArticleCUSIP Requests Climb Again In March Signaling Corporate And Muni Bond Surge -...
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced the release of its CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for March 2017. The report, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of...
View ArticleB3 Launches “Report Or Explain For The Sustainable Development Goals...
Today B3 launches its “Report or Explain for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” initiative. Starting this year, B3 will ask listed companies to disclose on an annual basis whether they publish...
View ArticleCeremony Underlines Close Capital Markets Ties Between Saudi Arabia And UAE -...
Yousef Bin Abdullah Al-Shelash, Chairman of Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate Development Company, today rang the market opening bell to celebrate the listing of a 500 million US dollar Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai,...
View ArticleTriOptima And CME Clearing Include First Client Cleared Trades In triReduce...
TriOptima, a NEX Group business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, announces today that it has included client cleared trades in a triReduce Mexico Peso (MXN) compression...
View ArticleCloudMargin Appoints Laurence Jones, Marc Desanges As Sales Executives In New...
CloudMargin, the multi-award winning creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, announced today the hiring of Laurence Jones and Marc Desanges to further the...
View ArticleAl Mawared Brokerage Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report April 9 – April...
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View ArticleDash Financial Technologies Names Ari House Chief Financial Officer
Dash Financial Technologies today announced the appointment of Ari House as Chief Financial Officer. His first day was April 1.read more...
View ArticleMNI PINCH - Probabilty Of INterest Rate CHange
With the UK calling for a snap general election and the upcoming first round of the French Presidential election this weekend, it is alittle surprising to actually see probability of a rate rise in the...
View ArticleTehran Stock Exchange Weekly Market Review From 15n April 2017 to 19 April 2017
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View ArticleIdentifying High Potentials in Your Organization
Many organizations seek to identify their high potential employees. They provide them good opportunities for growth and development and interesting work assignments. Firms typically invest a great...
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