Dubai Financial Services Authority Takes Action Against Senior Executive Officer
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) from Mr S Ravishankar Naidu, Senior Executive Officer (SEO) at Royal Shield Limited (RSL), an Insurance...
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange: First Bonds List On New International Securities Market
London Stock Exchange plc has welcomed the first bonds to list on its new International Securities Market (ISM), an additional market for the issuance and trading of UK and international primary debt...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Global Market Introduces First Calibrated Venture Capital Managers...
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has introduced a risk-proportionate regulatory framework for managers of venture capital (VC) funds, the first of...
View ArticleNovitasFTCL Advised The Shareholders Of Twigkit On Its Sale To Lucidworks
Lucidworks, the leader in enterprise search solutions, today announced its acquisition of Twigkit, a software company specializing in user experiences for enterprise-grade search and big data...
View ArticleFlexTrade Launches FlexAlgoWheel - Next Generation, Intuitive Interface For...
FlexTrade (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced the rollout of FlexAlgoWheel, the next generation, data-driven interface to algo selection...
View ArticleThe Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in US Counties: A...
Major natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy cause numerous fatalities, and destroy property and infrastructure. In any year, the U.S experiences dozens of smaller natural disasters as...
View ArticleThe Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations -- by Javier Cravino,...
We study the impact of large exchange rate devaluations on the cost of living at different points on the income distribution. Poor households spend relatively more on tradeable product categories, and...
View ArticleMale Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the...
There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of...
View ArticleLessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets -- by Laura Alfaro,...
This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the non-financial corporate sector in emerging markets since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative...
Although the reservation wage plays a central role in job search models, empirical evidence on the determinants of reservation wages, including key policy variables such as unemployment insurance (UI),...
View ArticlePush and Pull: Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit...
Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the...
View ArticleCo-authorship in Economic History and Economics: Are We Any Different? -- by...
Over the last six decades articles published in leading economic history journals have been less likely to be co-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both...
View ArticleCan at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan...
The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could...
View ArticleAre Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes? -- by R. Tamara Konetzka,...
The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research suggests that the nursing supply adjusts to macroeconomic conditions. However, prior...
View ArticleExchange Rate Disconnect in General Equilibrium -- by Oleg Itskhoki, Dmitry...
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model of exchange rate determination, which simultaneously accounts for all major puzzles associated with nominal and real exchange rates. This includes the...
View ArticleEconomic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization...
This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We...
View ArticleGallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870 -- by...
In nineteenth century America, blacksmiths were a fixture in every village, town and city, producing a diverse range of products from axes to wheels and services from repairs to horse-shoeing. In...
View ArticleDigital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows -- by John Horton, William R....
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of...
View ArticleRacial Differences in American Women's Labor Market Outcomes: A Long-Run View...
This paper documents and explores black-white differences in U.S. women's labor force participation, occupations, and wages from 1940 to 2014. It draws on closely related research on selection into the...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms -- by David...
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's...
View Article
