Intercontinental Exchange Reports ICE & NYSE February 2017 Volumes
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today reported February 2017 trading volume and...
View ArticleSEC Charges Mexico-Based Homebuilder In $3.3 Billion Accounting Fraud - SEC...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Mexico-based homebuilding company Desarrolladora Homex S.A.B. de C.V. has agreed to settle charges that it reported fake sales of more than...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For 3rd March, 2017
A total turnover of 1.387 billion shares worth N13.726 billion in 15,422 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 765.656 million shares valued at...
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Amman Stock Exchange, Al Mawared...
London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Bank in partnership with Al Mawared Brokerage are holding a conference on Depositary Receipts on Monday March 13, 2017 at the Jordan Capital Markets premises, in...
View ArticleThe Ascent of Money - Financial History Lecture by Professor Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money - Financial History Lecture by Professor Niall Ferguson https://t.co/LyLMZc0sIe — moneyscience (@moneyscience) March 6, 2017
View ArticleExegy Adds IEX Data To X-Port Service
Exegy Inc., a leading provider of managed services and technology for real-time financial market data, announced today the addition of IEX data to its X-Port market data vending service. The Exegy...
View ArticleAl Mawared Brokerage Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report February 26 –...
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View ArticleESM Welcomes Report By Transparency International
The European Stability Mechanism welcomes Transparency International’s initiative to assess the transparency and accountability of the institution. The ESM fully engaged with Transparency...
View ArticleThe S&P 500 Turns 60
March 4, 2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the S&P 500®, the most widely followed gauge of the U.S. market and indicator of global economic health. Discover how this pioneering index has been a...
View ArticleWas The First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement...
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and...
View ArticleSchool Lunch Quality and Academic Performance -- by Michael L. Anderson,...
Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity...
View ArticleThe Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production -- by Ellen R....
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are...
View ArticleFinancial Frictions and Employment during the Great Depression -- by Efraim...
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of...
View ArticleDoes Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts...
Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged...
View ArticleEconomic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities --...
The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or "repugnant". Not only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is...
View ArticleAre Larger Banks Valued More Highly? -- by Bernadette A. Minton, Rene M....
We investigate whether the value of large banks, defined as banks with assets in excess of the Dodd-Frank threshold for enhanced supervision, increases with the size of their assets using Tobin's q and...
View ArticleImpulsive Consumption and Financial Wellbeing: Evidence from an Increase in...
Increased availability of temptation goods might harm individuals if they have time-inconsistent preferences and consume more in the present than planned before. We study this idea by examining the...
View ArticleIsrael's Immigration Story: Globalization Lessons -- by Assaf Razin
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has received migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) at the rate of 17 percent of...
View ArticleInstrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking The Effect of Trade...
It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a final outcome. Using an Instrumental Variable (IV) identifies the...
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