Global Production with Export Platforms -- by Felix Tintelnot
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host...
View ArticleImpacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries -- by...
Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments designed to understand the...
View ArticleThe Effect of Single-Sex Education on Academic Outcomes and Crime: Fresh...
In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing pilot secondary schools from coed to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of...
View ArticleCompulsory Voting, Turnout, and Government Spending: Evidence from Austria --...
We study a unique quasi-experiment in Austria, where compulsory voting laws are changed across Austria's nine states at different times. Analyzing state and national elections from 1949-2010, we show...
View ArticleOpen Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-up Problem in the Two-Sided Market...
The move from traditional to open-access journals--which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees--is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot...
View ArticleCommunication in Vertical Markets: Experimental Evidence -- by Claudia...
When an upstream monopolist supplies several competing downstream firms, it may fail to monopolize the market because it is unable to commit not to behave opportunistically. We build on previous...
View ArticleThe Requirements of Jobs: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey --...
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the...
View ArticleMultifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from...
Launched in 2004, the Carolina Covenant combines grant-heavy financial aid with an array of non-financial supports for low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program...
View ArticleNewer Need Not be Better: Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World...
Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose error is plausibly independent of the measurement errors of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an...
View ArticleLabor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: a Balanced-Growth Perspective...
What explains how much people work? Going back in time, a main fact to address is the steady reduction in hours worked. The long-run data, for the U.S. as well as for other countries, show a striking...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Set To Implement Compliance Status Indicator Codes On...
As part of efforts to further improve market transparency and integrity, provide timely information for investment decisions as well as enhance the protection of investors in the capital market, The...
View ArticleLombard Risk Appoints Chief Technology Officer
Lombard Risk Management plc (AIM:LRM.L), a leading provider of integrated collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce that Mike...
View ArticleIndustry Collaboration Is Necessary For The Successful Application Of...
New research published by the SWIFT Institute investigates the practical application of blockchain (or mutual distributed ledger) technologies in securities markets. read more...
View ArticleSTOXX Monthly Index News: Commodity Price Hikes Pushed Related Sectors And...
In April, equity markets have been influenced by a weak US dollar. Towards the end of the month, the Fed decided to keep interest rates unchanged and did not give a hint about future decisions. As a...
View ArticleThomson Reuters 2016 Know Your Customer Surveys Reveal Escalating Costs And...
The lack of sufficient people resources and the volume of regulatory change are top concerns among nearly 800 financial institutions who responded to an authoritative Thomson Reuters survey on the...
View Article09May/AgustÃn Carstens reappointed as Chair of the BIS Global...
Press release about AgustÃn Carstens being reappointed as Chair of the BIS Global Economy Meeting and the BIS Economic Consultative Committee (9 May 2016)
View ArticleIOSCO Issues Report on Impact of Storage and Delivery Infrastructure on...
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions today published The Impact of Storage and Delivery Infrastructure on Commodity Derivatives Market Pricing. The report sets out the...
View ArticleIOSCO Issues Report On Impact Of Storage And Delivery Infrastructure On...
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions today published The Impact of Storage and Delivery Infrastructure on Commodity Derivatives Market Pricing. The report sets out the...
View ArticleUK's Financial Conduct Authorityâs Regulatory Sandbox Opens To...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), today opened its regulatory sandbox to firms. The sandbox is a ‘safe space’ in which businesses can test innovative products, services, business models and...
View ArticleBursa Malaysia Securities Publicly Reprimands KAF-Seagroatt & Campbell...
Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (635998-W) (Bursa Malaysia Securities) has publicly reprimanded KAF-Seagroatt & Campbell Berhad (KAF) in respect of the company’s fourth quarterly report for the...
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