Bitcoin Price Seeks Direction as Trading Range Narrows
Bitcoin's price range continues to narrow, but a big move on either side could happen soon, the technical charts suggest.
View ArticleRussian Finance Ministry Proposes Draft Law on ICO Regulation
Russia's Finance Ministry has introduced a draft federal law on the regulation of digital assets and initial coin offerings.
View ArticleBack at $1,500: Bitcoin Cash Could See Further Dip
Technical analysis suggests that bitcoin cash could see a further decline ahead, but that bull scenarios are also in play.
View ArticleCoincheck Confirms Crypto Hack Loss Larger than Mt Gox
Japanese exchange Coincheck has confirmed that about $533 million-worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen from its digital wallets.
View ArticleVitalik: First Part of Ethereum's Sharding Roadmap Is Nearly Done
Ethereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder Vitalik Buterin said.Â
View ArticleDaily: $530 Million USD HACKED from Japanese ExchangeDaily: $530 Million USD...
News is coming out of Japan that $520 Million USD worth of the cryptocurrency NEM was stolen from the exchange Coincheck. There were also large movements of Ripple out of the exchange but it seems...
View ArticleESMA Draws Issuersâ Attention To IAS Requirements Following...
Following the signing of the United States Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), significant changes in US tax laws took effect on 1 January 2018. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has...
View ArticleBOX Options Exchange February Fee Change
Effective February 1, 2018, BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) is making the following changes to the BOX Fee Schedule:1read more...
View ArticleUS Department Of Justice: BNP Paribas USA Inc. Pleads Guilty To Antitrust...
BNP Paribas USA Inc. (BNPP USA), a subsidiary of BNP Paribas S.A., pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy in the foreign currency exchange (FX) market, the Justice...
View ArticlePhilippines Securities Regulator Orders Halt to ICO
The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission hit KropCoin with a cease-and-desist order, on the grounds it was offering unregistered securities.
View ArticleRoubini Doubles Down on Crypto Criticism, Calls Blockchain 'Overhyped'
The influential economist has made harsh public remarks about bitcoin before, but his latest piece broadens the attack to include the underlying tech.
View ArticleBayes Rule Spreadsheet
By KENNETH R. FRENCH Bayes rule is a way to update your model of the world when you have new information. Suppose we are interested in assessing the probability that a specific hypothesis is true. We...
View ArticleOntario Securities Commission Announces New Commissioner Appointments
Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) Chair and CEO Maureen Jensen announced today the following appointments to the Commission. These Commissioners will each serve a two-year term.read more...
View ArticleN-S Trade with Weak Institutions -- by James E. Anderson
States with weak institutions (South) can lose from institutional response to trade with North. A Ricardian model of trade subject to predation characterizes the case. South labor earns equal returns...
View ArticleExchange Traded Funds 101 For Economists -- by Martin Lettau, Ananth Madhavan
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) represent one of the most important financial innovations in decades. An ETF is an investment vehicle that trades intraday and seeks to replicate the performance of a...
View ArticleDo Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India -- by Nicholas Bloom,...
Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 we revisited the plants and found three main...
View ArticleDo CCTs Improve Employment and Earnings in the Very Long-Term? Evidence from...
We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We rely on the original random assignment into early and late treatment localities,...
View ArticleLongevity, Education, and Income: How Large is the Triangle? -- by Hoyt Bleakley
While health affects economic development and wellbeing through a variety of pathways, one commonly suggested mechanism is a "horizon" channel in which increased longevity induces additional education....
View ArticleWhat do we know about the effects of Austerity? -- by Alberto F. Alesina,...
This paper summarizes the results of a large recent literature on multi year fiscal plans for deficit reduction (austerity). The key results are that deficit reduction policies based upon spending cuts...
View ArticleAI as the next GPT: a Political-Economy Perspective -- by Manuel Trajtenberg
History suggests that dismal prophecies regarding the impact of great technological advances rarely come to pass. Yet, as many occupations will indeed vanish with the advent of AI as the new General...
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