Facebook Has a New Director of Engineering for Blockchain
Facebook is getting even more serious about blockchain, appointing a new director of engineering to focus on the technology.
View ArticleBitcoin's Price Declines Over Q2 for First Time on Record
CoinDesk's looks at bitcoin's price performance over Q2 2018, finding that the crypto asset underperformed according to historical data.
View ArticleAthens Exchange Group: Main Market Stock Liquidity Class Assessment Results,...
Athens Stock Exchange announces the Main Market stock liquidity class assessment results, effective as of July 09, 2018 (Table 1, Table 2, Table 3).read more...
View ArticleMiFID II: ESMA Issues Latest Double Volume Cap Data
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated today its public register with the latest set of double volume cap (DVC) data under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Board Issues Statement Describing How, Consistent With...
Consistent with the recently enacted Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA), the Federal Reserve Board on Friday issued a statement describing how the Board will no...
View ArticleCrypto Exchange Gemini Hires Former NYSE Tech Chief
Crypto exchange Gemini has hired former NYSE chief information officer Robert Cornish to serve as its first chief technology officer.
View ArticleFormer CEO And CFO Of ITT Barred And Ordered To Pay Penalties
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settlements with two former senior executives of ITT Educational Services Inc., which the SEC charged hid its true financial condition from...
View ArticleCloud Provider Xunlei Launches Blockchain File System
Xunlei Limited announced that it has launched a distributed file system called ThunderChain File System (TCFS) for its blockchain platform.
View ArticleTezos Investors Got a Chance to Sell This Week – And They Took It
Tezos' price dropped by a third in its first 24 hours of trading as a real token, rather than an IOU.
View ArticleTehran Stock Exchange To Hold AGM
The annual general assembly of Tehran Stock Exchange will be held on 15 July 2018.read more...
View ArticleTiming the Crypto Market With RSI (A Beginner's Guide)
Snoozers always lose in the crypto market. This guide to the RSI indicator will assist you in making timely trades so you can walk away with the win.
View ArticleWith Journalists on Ethereum, Will Fake News Meet Its Match?
The ambitious project thinks token-based governance can tackle not just censorship, but fake news, echo chambers and journalism's other crises.
View ArticleThe Downside of Open Office Environments
Harvard scholars Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban have published an intriguing new study regarding open office environments. The study is distinctive because of its methodology. The scholars used...
View ArticleQatar Stock Exchange: Increase In QE Index, Trading Turnover And Foreign...
The QE Index recorded an increase of 5.52% to the end of June 2018 to reach 9,024 points compared to 8,620 at the beginning of the year. As a result, Qatar Stock Exchange ranked second in terms of GCC...
View ArticleTesting the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools -- by Erik Snowberg,...
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk...
View ArticleThe Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining -- by Michael...
Teacher collective bargaining is a highly debated feature of the education system in the US. This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining laws on long-run labor...
View ArticleProgress and Perspectives in the Study of Political Selection -- by Ernesto...
We provide a model of self-selection by candidates in a probabilistic voting environment to shed light on the forces shaping the quality of politicians from both the supply and demand sides of...
View ArticleRedistributing the Gains From Trade Through Progressive Taxation -- by...
Should a nation's tax system become more progressive as it opens to trade? Does opening to trade change the benefits of a progressive tax system? We answer these question within a standard incomplete...
View ArticleMaking Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises -- by Cesi Cruz,...
Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit multidimensional campaign promises from political candidates in consecutive mayoral...
View ArticleRevealed Growth: A Method for Bounding the Elasticity of Demand with an...
We propose a method for bounding the demand elasticity in growing, homogeneous-product markets that requires only minimal data--market price and quantity over a time span as short as two periods....
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