UK Parliament - Exiting The European Union Commons Select Committee: Progress...
In this second report of the overarching inquiry into the Article 50 negotiations, the Exiting the European Union Committee makes recommendations with regard to the Draft Withdrawal Agreement, a...
View ArticleFrom Now, It Will Be Cheaper For Companies To Make Issuances On TASE
​On March 13, 2018 a tax bill passed its final hearings in the Knesset, whereby issuance expenses are to be recognized and deductible for tax purposes. The bill proposes that every company or...
View ArticleChair Sets Out FSB Priorities For The Argentine G20 Presidency
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a letter from FSB Chair Mark Carney to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their meetings in Buenos Aires on 19-20 March. The...
View ArticleMcCabeâs FiringâIs an Indictment of Hillary Clinton Imminent?
I don’t post often anymore but the world is starting to heat up again. While I’m not a big fan of Donald Trump, I did write on here the day before the elections that if I used history as a guide,...
View ArticleLedger Nano S + NEO GuideLedger Nano S + NEO Guide
How to setup the Neo (Neon wallet) on your ledger nano sand how to add custom tokens. You can add as many NEP-5 tokens as you want, including Ontology and Trinity. Check out my previous video for how...
View ArticleEffective construction of threshold networks of stock markets....
Although the threshold network is one of the most used tools to characterize the underlying structure of a stock market, the identification of the optimal threshold to construct a reliable stock...
View ArticleIntel Thinks Blockchain Could Power a Next-Gen Media Rights Manager
Tech giant Intel has moved to protect a custom system for digital rights management built on a blockchain.
View ArticleArizona's Blockchain 'Node Rights' Law Is Nearing Passage
Arizona House Bill 2602, which would protect blockchain node operators from local regulations, was approved by two Senate committees.
View ArticleCarney On Eve of G20: Cryptos Don't Pose Risks to Financial Stability
A group of central bank regulators and government ministers said Sunday that cryptocurrencies don't pose a risk to global financial stability.
View ArticleICOs Iced: A 12-Month Freeze on US Token Trading Is Just Beginning
The SEC's actions against U.S. ICOs appear to not only be discouraging innovation, they're leaving even experts confused about the state of play.
View ArticleHKEX: Exchange Publishes Its Latest Listing Committee Report
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), on Monday published its Listing Committee Report for 2017, a review...
View ArticleIntermediary Asset Pricing and the Financial Crisis -- by Zhiguo He, Arvind...
"Intermediary asset pricing'' understands asset prices and risk premia through the lens of frictions in financial intermediation. Perhaps motivated by phenomena in the financial crisis, intermediary...
View ArticleThe Dynamic Effects of Computerized VAT Invoices on Chinese Manufacturing...
This paper uses a balanced panel of large manufacturing firms to study the dynamic effects of computerizing VAT invoices on tax revenues and firm behavior in China, 1998-2007. We find that...
View ArticleA Theory of Small Campaign Contributions -- by Laurent Bouton, Micael...
We present a model of electorally-motivated, small campaign contributions. The analysis uncovers interesting interactions among small donors and has novel implications for the effect of income...
View ArticleEstimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and...
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for...
View ArticleMirage on the Horizon: Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation Without Commitment...
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In...
View ArticleCongestion Pricing, Air Pollution and Children's Health -- by Emilia...
This study examines the effects of implementing a congestion tax in central Stockholm on both ambient air pollution and the population health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced...
View ArticleWhat is the Impact of Successful Cyberattacks on Target Firms? -- by Shinichi...
We examine which firms are targets of successful cyberattacks and how they are affected. We find that cyberattacks are more likely to occur at larger and more visible firms, more highly valued firms,...
View ArticleBartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How -- by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham,...
The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry growth rates. We show that the Bartik instrument is numerically equivalent to using local industry shares as...
View ArticleThe US Gains from Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor...
About 8 cents out of every dollar spent in the United States is spent on imports. What if, because of a wall or some other extreme policy intervention, imports were to remain on the other side of the...
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