The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of...
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in...
View ArticleTargeted Remedial Education: Experimental Evidence from Peru -- by Juan...
An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program...
View ArticleFDI and Capital Formation in Developing Economies: New Evidence from...
We contribute to the long debated issue of whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI) can stimulate investment in developing countries by introducing a novel measure of FDI, based on industry-level...
View ArticleAudit Risk Alert: Understanding the Responsibilities of Auditors for Audits...
This Audit Risk Alert is intended to help auditors understand and implement the requirements of the new AU-C section 600, Statement on Auditing Standards -Special Considerations - Audits of Group...
View ArticlePayment, clearing and settlement systems in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Payment, clearing and settlement systems in the Kingdom of Bahrain published by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), January 2017.
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The Gamification of Work: The Use of Games in the Workplace
Despite the traditional opposition between play and work, games and their structure are increasingly used in workplaces. This phenomenon of using game elements or mechanisms in other contexts than...
View ArticleDo Boards Pick the Right Person as CEO?
What happens when the Board of Directors appoints an internal candidate to the position of CEO? Do they tend to pick the right person, or do they overlook/reject an alternative candidate that would...
View ArticleDynamic Prize Linked Savings: Maximizing Savings and Managing Risk....
Prize linked savings accounts provide a return in the form of randomly chosen accounts receiving large cash prizes, in lieu of a guaranteed and uniform interest rate. This model became legal for...
View ArticleSome correspondences between Index Number Theory in economy and the General...
GDP of China is about 11 trillion dollars and GDP of the United States is about 18 trillion dollars. Suppose that we know for the coming years, economy of the US will experience a real growth rate...
View ArticleOn the tail behavior of a class of multivariate conditionally heteroskedastic...
Conditions for geometric ergodicity of multivariate ARCH processes, with the so-called BEKK parametrization, are considered. We show for a class of BEKK-ARCH processes that the invariant distribution...
View ArticleMean-Reverting Portfolio Design with Budget Constraint. (arXiv:1701.05016v1...
This paper considers the mean-reverting portfolio design problem arising from statistical arbitrage in the financial markets. We first propose a general problem formulation aimed at finding a portfolio...
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The Power of Positive Destruction: How to Turn a Business Idea Into a Revolution
It's no longer good enough to build a company to last; today it's about building a company to ignite change. The Power of Positive Destruction reveals how to start a new business, disrupt an industry,...
View ArticleDigital Sense: The Common Sense Approach to Effectively Blending Social...
Digital Sense provides a complete playbook for organizations seeking a more engaged customer experience strategy. By reorganizing sales and marketing to compete in today's digital-first, omni-channel...
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January 2017 Data Update 3: Cracking the Currency Code
There was a time in the not so distant past, where analysts could do their analysis in their local currencies and care little or not at all about foreign currencies, how they moved and why. This was...
View ArticleTax Lot and Shareholder Accounting - Hedge Fund Software -...
Tax Lot and Shareholder Accounting from PortfolioShop https://t.co/VzulvL5lt9 @portfolioshopny â moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 20, 2017
View Article7 Methods To Crush Your First Draft
So, you have a great idea for a research paper. Now all you have to do is write it. If only that were as easily done as it was for you to say you’re going to do. Theses can spend years marinating in...
View ArticleHow Deutsche Bank Made a $462 Million Loss Disappear
How Deutsche Bank Made a $462 Million Loss Disappear. A dubious trade leads to a criminal trial https://t.co/7rHJyyv9y3 â moneyscience (@moneyscience) Januaryâ¦
View ArticleLibor scandal: the bankers who fixed the worldâs most important number...
Long Read: Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the worldâs most important number https://t.co/0wJn4TmjO3 â moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 20, 2017
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