Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations -- by Claudia Goldin,...
American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor...
View ArticleOlder Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household...
The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work...
View ArticleThe U.S. Economy in WWII as a Model for Coping with Climate Change -- by Hugh...
During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw...
View ArticleThe Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action:...
Several public K-12 and university systems have recently shifted from race-based affirmative action plans to race-neutral alternatives. This paper explores the degree to which race-neutral alternatives...
View ArticleElectoral reciprocity in programmatic redistribution: Experimental Evidence...
We analyzed two conditional cash transfers experiments that preceded Honduran presidential elections in 2001 and 2013. In the first, smaller transfers had no effects on voter turnout or incumbent vote...
View ArticleHow Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? -- by Paul Gompers, William...
We survey 889 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing; investment selection; valuation; deal structure; post investment...
View ArticleLove, Money, and Parental Goods: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter? -- by Fali...
While parental matchmaking has been widespread throughout history and across countries, we know little about the relationship between parental matchmaking and marriage outcomes. Does parental...
View ArticleSocial Experiments in the Labor Market -- by Jesse Rothstein, Till von Wachter
Large-scale social experiments were pioneered in labor economics, and are the basis for much of what we know about topics ranging from the effect of job training to incentives for job search to labor...
View ArticleBuying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace...
Reputation is critical to foster trust in online marketplaces, yet leaving feedback is a public good that can be under-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only...
View ArticleA Lesson from the Great Depression that the Fed Might have Learned: A...
We examine the first QE program through the lens of an open-market operation under taken by the Federal Reserve in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression. This program entailed large purchases of...
View ArticleECC To Introduce Direct Clearing Participant Membership For Spot Markets
European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) has introduced a new membership model - the Direct Clearing Participant Model (DCPM).read more...
View ArticleBorsa Italiana Monthly Update August 2016
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View ArticleEuronext Announces Volumes For August 2016
Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for August 2016.read more...
View ArticleS+T AG And Leifheit AG To Be Included In Selection Indices Of Deutsche...
On Monday, Deutsche Börse announced changes to its selection indices, which will become effective on 19 September 2016. The shares of S+T AG will be included in the TecDAX index and will replace the...
View ArticleNon-Gaussian analytic option pricing: a closed formula for the L\'evy-stable...
We establish an explicit pricing formula for a class of non-Gaussian models (the Levy-stable, or Log-Levy model with finite moments and stability parameter between 1 and 2) allowing a straightforward...
View ArticleMultivariate Mixed Tempered Stable Distribution. (arXiv:1609.00926v1 [q-fin.ST])
The multivariate version of the Mixed Tempered Stable is proposed. It is a generalization of the Normal Variance Mean Mixtures. Characteristics of this new distribution and its capacity in fitting...
View ArticleDetermining Optimal Stop-Loss Thresholds via Bayesian Analysis of Drawdown...
Stop-loss rules are often studied in the financial literature, but the stop-loss levels are seldom constructed systematically. In many papers, and indeed in practice as well, the level of the stops is...
View ArticleOption-Based Pricing of Wrong Way Risk for CVA. (arXiv:1609.00819v1 [q-fin.PR])
The two main issues for managing wrong way risk (WWR) for the credit valuation adjustment (CVA, i.e. WW-CVA) are calibration and hedging. Hence we start from a novel model-free worst-case approach...
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Plato Partnership Enters Cooperation Agreement With Turquoise
Plato Partnership, a not-for-profit industry group of buy and sell-side firms who are collaborating to bring creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s complex equity marketplace, is pleased to...
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