Visible Alpha Raises $38 Million In New Funding Round, Led By Goldman Sachs -...
Visible Alpha, an investment research technology firm founded by some of the world’s leading investment banks, today announced that it has secured an additional $38 million of equity financing. Visible...
View ArticleSolactive Publishes New Research Paper On Equally Weighted Versus Market Cap...
Today, Solactive AG published a new research paper comparing the performance of equally weighted versus market cap weighted index strategies.read more...
View ArticleIntercontinental Exchange And Blockstream Launch Consolidated Data Feed For...
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and Blockstream, a leader in blockchain technologies...
View ArticleExchange Data International Launches Global Economic Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) is pleased to announce the launch of it's new data offering: Global Economic Data.read more...
View ArticleBroadway Technology Caps Record Year Of Global Expansion - Completes $42...
Broadway Technology, LLC, a provider of high-performance fintech and infrastructure solutions, completed the most successful year in its 14-year history as the company increased its annual revenue by...
View ArticleMNI Chicago Business Barometer December 2017 Revised Up To 67.8 Stronger...
The December Chicago Business Barometer was revised up to 67.8 from 67.6 previously, following the annual seasonal adjustment recalculation.read more...
View ArticleExactpro Announces Management Buyout From London Stock Exchange Group
Exactpro Systems Limited and its subsidiaries ("Exactpro"), announce that EXPLORE123 Limited, a company incorporated by the founders of Exactpro, has completed the acquisition of Exactpro from the...
View ArticleIOSCO Board Communication On Concerns Related To Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs, also known as token sales or coin sales), typically involve the creation of digital tokens – using distributed ledger technology – and their sale to investors by auction...
View ArticleSwiss State Secretariat For International Financial Matters: Blockchain/ICO...
The State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF) has established a blockchain/ICO working group, which will review the legal framework and identify any need for action with the...
View ArticleWhat Information Do We Wish That We Had?
Over the years, Garold Stasser and his colleagues have demonstrated that many teams exhibit "shared information bias" - i.e. teams spend a great deal of time discussing information common to all team...
View ArticleTSMC Expects 'Strong' Crypto Mining Demand to Continue
Cryptocurrency mining demand provided a boost to TSMC's fourth-quarter revenue, according to new statements from the foundry giant.
View ArticleLedger-to-Ledger? Hardware Wallet Integrates with Decentralized Exchange
Decentralized exchange Radar Relay has partnered with Ledger to allow for hardware wallet-to-wallet direct transfers.
View ArticleESMA Seeks Public Input on Cryptocurrency Derivatives Policy
The European Securities and Markets Authority released a public call for input on cryptocurrency-based contracts-for-differences.
View ArticleNYSE Parent Company Launches Cryptocurrency Data Feed
Intercontinental Exchange announced today that it was partnering with Blockstream to launch a cryptocurrency price data feed.
View ArticleSources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses -- by Marta...
We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly...
View ArticleIdentification and Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macroeconomics...
An exciting development in empirical macroeconometrics is the increasing use of external sources of as-if randomness to identify the dynamic causal effects of macroeconomic shocks. This approach - the...
View ArticleWhy Are Professors "Poorly Paid"? -- by Daniel S. Hamermesh
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that...
View ArticleEndogenous and Selective Service Choices After Airline Mergers -- by Sophia...
We estimate a model of service choice and price competition in airline markets, allowing for the carriers that provide nonstop service to be a selected subset of the carriers competing in the market....
View ArticleCorporate Credit Risk Premia -- by Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Darrell...
We measure credit risk premia - prices for bearing corporate default risk in excess of expected default losses - using Markit CDS and Moody's Analytics EDF data. We find dramatic variation over time in...
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