Stripe's valuation nearly doubles to $9.2 billion with latest funding
Stripe's valuation of $9.2bn makes it among the world's highest-valued #fintech startups backed by VCs https://t.co/WNVvseTERg â moneyscience (@moneyscience)â¦
View ArticleErin Lynch
Erin is President of Beecher Carlson’s Energy Practice. She is responsible for leading the practice’s production team and directing the overall sales strategy for the department.read more...
View ArticleAgustÃn Carstens appointed as BIS General Manager
Press release about the BIS appointing the new General Manager (1 December 2016)
View ArticleInternational banking supervisory community meets to discuss the regulatory...
Basel Committee press release about the "International banking supervisory community meeting to discuss the regulatory framework" (1 December 2016).
View ArticleGiant Aluminum Stockpile Was Shipped From Mexico to Vietnam
A hidden cache of aluminum tied to a Chinese billionaire accounts for *14%* of global aluminum inventories https://t.co/iRve1HU7O4 â Scott Pattersonâ¦
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Check out two Google Earth photos of part of the massive Vietnam aluminum stockpile from March this year http://pic.twitter.com/xVIQyky4fM â Scott Pattersonâ¦
View ArticleThe Coconut Model with Heterogeneous Strategies and Learning....
In this paper, we develop an agent-based version of the Diamond search equilibrium model - also called Coconut Model. In this model, agents are faced with production decisions that have to be evaluated...
View ArticleStock Returns Versus GDP
Picture Credit: Third Way Think Tank || Lousy name, but technology moves on and capital gets recycledread more...
View ArticleGender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact
Women today are an unparalleled force in the global economyas successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and family breadwinners. Yet gender-based violence, the absence of women's legal rights and...
View ArticleChina's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information...
China's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organised into three major...
View ArticleHow many market makers does a market need?. (arXiv:1612.00981v1 [q-fin.MF])
We consider a simple model for the evolution of a limit order book in which limit orders of unit size arrive according to independent Poisson processes. The frequency of buy limit orders below a given...
View ArticleThe countercyclical capital buffer and the composition of bank lending
Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Old Ideas
Photo Credit: Daniele Dalledonne || Ever been to a place where everything was a little past its prime, but showed that it was a beautiful place in its time?read more...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers â December 5, 2016
1. Searching for Justice Scalia: Measuring the âScalia-nessâ of the Next Potential Member of the U.S. Supreme Court by Jeremy Kidd (Mercer University â Walter F. George School of Law) and...
View ArticleMulti-Purpose Binomial Model: Fitting all Moments to the Underlying Geometric...
We construct a binomial tree model fitting all moments to the approximated geometric Brownian motion. Our construction generalizes the classical Cox-Ross-Rubinstein, the Jarrow-Rudd, and the Tian...
View ArticleStability of calibration procedures: fractals in the Black-Scholes model....
Usually, in the Black-Scholes pricing theory the volatility is a positive real parameter. Here we explore what happens if it is allowed to be a complex number. The function for pricing a European...
View ArticleUniversal Exponential Structure of Income Inequality: Evidence from 60...
Economic competition between humans leads to income inequality, but, so far, there has been little understanding of underlying quantitative mechanisms governing such a collective behavior. We analyze...
View ArticleZara: Can Competitors Match Its Fast Fashion Model?
Patricia Kowsmann wrote a terrific article about Zara today. Zara, as many of you know, is a highly successful Spanish apparel retailer. In the article Kowsmann explains how quickly Zara can bring a...
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