Socio-economic inequality: Relationship between Gini and Kolkata indices....
Socio-economic inequality is characterized from data using various indices. The Gini ($g$) index, giving the overall inequality is the most common one, while the recently introduced Kolkata ($k$) index...
View ArticleSigning Ceremony For Cooperation Memorandum On System Tests In Fund Industry...
On June 3, the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), the Industry Test Center of Dalian Commodity Exchange (the Test Center for short) and the Hundsun Technologies Inc. jointly signed the...
View ArticleJapan's Financial Services Agency: The Sixth Japan- Korea Shuttle Meeting On...
On June 3, 2016, the sixth Japan-Korea Shuttle Meeting on Financial Issues was held among the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA), the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial...
View ArticleNew Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Releases Auditor Regulation And...
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has released its auditor regulation and oversight plan for 2016. The FMA’s plan sets out the new style of audit report issued by the External Reporting Board,...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority: Clarification Announcement From The...
The Capital Market Authority (CMA) would like to clarify that the listed companies (“The Companies”) applying for a capital increase through rights issue offering are: 1. Wataniya Insurance Company...
View ArticleUAE's Securities and Commodities Authority Discusses With The Dubai...
The two sides also discussed several common issues, including passporting of selected activities to serve the interest of the securities sector and meet its needs, promote the movement of capital, and...
View ArticleDoes Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory...
Black markets are estimated to represent a fifth of global economic activity, but their response to policy is poorly understood because participants systematically hide their actions. It is widely...
View ArticleThe Effect of Cigarette Prices on Cigarette Sales: Exploring Heterogeneity in...
Numerous studies have examined the effect of cigarette prices on cigarette consumption. These studies either evaluate the price elasticity of demand for each observation and report the average price...
View ArticleHKEX Welcomes Its First Listings Of Leveraged And Inverse Products
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today (Monday) welcomed its first listings of Leveraged and Inverse Products, or L&I Products (please see table below for details).read more...
View Article13Jun/Understanding the changing equilibrium real interest rates in Asia-Pacific
This paper studies the evolution of the equilibrium real interest rate (ie natural or neutral interest rate) in Asia-Pacific. I take an empirical approach to estimate the rate, simple estimates suggest...
View Article13Jun/Output gaps and policy stabilisation in Latin America: the effect of...
We provide a measure of the output gap that filters out the impact of the commodity and net capital inflows booms for Latin American countries. These two factors temporarily boost output and so are...
View ArticleMonthly Summary Bulgarian Stock Exchange-Sofia May 2016
Click here to download the statistics for the market performance of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in May, 2016. read more...
View ArticleACER Invites All Interested Parties To Its 10th Public Debrief In Brussels
In the interest of increasing the transparency and awareness of the Agency’s work, the ACER Board of Regulators (BoR) holds, on a quarterly basis, a public debrief to present the recent activities of...
View ArticleSEC To Permit Voluntary Filing Using Inline XBRL
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will allow companies to voluntarily file structured financial statement data in a format known as Inline XBRL. This initiative represents...
View ArticleBME: Hadley Investments SOCIMI To Start Trading On MAB On 15 June
The Coordination and Admissions Committee of the Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on HADLEY INVESTMENTS SOCIMI,stating that the company is...
View ArticleACER Publishes A New Edition Of Questions & Answers On REMIT
The Agency has published another monthly edition of the Questions & Answers on REMIT (Q&A). In the Q&A the Agency answers to questions it has received via remit(at)acer.europa.eu. Updates...
View ArticleUKâs Financial Conduct Authority: Former Equities Trader At Schroders...
Damian Clarke, a former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management has today been sentenced to two years imprisonment having pleaded guilty to nine counts of insider dealing.read more...
View ArticleSIFMA Statement On âFINRA CEO Transition
SIFMA today issued the following statement on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) announcement that its Board of Governors has appointed Robert W. Cook as president and CEO, effective...
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