HKEX To Revise Criteria For Its Designated Securities Eligible For Short Selling
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will revise the criteria for its designated securities eligible for short selling from 4 July 2016 to reflect the development of Hong Kong's equity...
View ArticleThai Bourse, AsianFA Jointly Debut AsianFA Annual Meeting In Thailand
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has joined hands with Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) to organize “The 28th AsianFA Annual Meeting” for the first time in Thailand, during June 27-28, an annual...
View ArticleWhat next after Brexit?
A clichéââExpect the Unexpectedââhas happened. As I noted in âThe Divisive Brexit Voteâ, though I favoured Brexit, I took the opinion polls at face value, and expected that Britain as a...
View ArticleHKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts
Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Wednesday, 29 June...
View ArticleHong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Bans Liu King Yee For Life
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Liu King Yee, a former employee of Wing Lung Bank Limited (Wing Lung Bank), from re-entering the industry for life following her conviction by...
View ArticleEDHEC-Risk Institute: New Margin Regulations For The Non-Cleared OTC...
In a new publication entitled “Initial Margin for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives – Overview, Modelling and Calibration,” EDHEC-Risk Institute provides a detailed overview and analysis of the...
View ArticleEffects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health -- by George Wehby, Dhaval Dave,...
The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health,...
View ArticleProducing Humanities PhDs among BAs at Doctoral Institutions -- by Todd R....
This paper investigates which attributes of a Carnegie PhD-level institution predict the share and number of its undergraduate humanities BA recipients that will go on to earn a humanities PhD. We use...
View ArticleMoneyball in Medicare -- by Edward C. Norton, Jun Li, Anup Das, Lena M. Chen
US policymakers place a high priority on tying Medicare payments to the value of care delivered. A critical part of this effort is the Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program (HVBP), which rewards or...
View ArticleThe Analytics of the Greek Crisis -- by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Thomas...
We provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the Greek Crisis of 2010. We first benchmark the crisis against all episodes of sudden stops, sovereign debt crises, and lending boom/busts in...
View ArticleBunching at The Kink: Implications for Spending Responses to Health Insurance...
A large literature in empirical public finance relies on "bunching" to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used...
View ArticleEstimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models Using Benchmark...
Empirical cross-industry cross-country models are applied widely in economics, for example to investigate the determinants of economic growth or international trade. Estimation generally relies on US...
View ArticleNew Zealand Financial Service Provider Agrees To Pay $125,000 USD For...
In a settlement agreement with the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), Asia Finance Corporation Ltd., a New Zealand company, has admitted it traded securities on behalf of B.C. residents...
View ArticleCFTC Grants Registration To Clear Markets North America, Inc.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has approved the application of Clear Markets North America, Inc. (Clear Markets), granting it fully registered status with...
View ArticleFitch Downgrades The United Kingdom To 'AA': Outlook Negative
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United Kingdom's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to 'AA' from 'AA+'. The Outlooks are Negative. The issue ratings on the UK's senior...
View ArticleSEC Proposes Amendments To Smaller Reporting Company Definition
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to propose amendments that would increase the financial thresholds in the “smaller reporting company” definition. The proposal to update the...
View ArticleFitch Downgrades Bank Of England To 'AA': Outlook Negative
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the Bank of England's (BoE) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'AA' from 'AA+' following the downgrade of the UK sovereign rating. The Outlook is Negative. The BoE's...
View ArticleThomson Reuters Latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report Shows Indications Of...
Thomson Reuters today released its latest Global 500 Greenhouse Gas Performance 2010-2015: 2016 Report on Trends – revealing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from the world’s 500 largest businesses...
View ArticleSEC Adopts Rules For Resource Extraction Issuers Under Dodd-Frank Act
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it adopted rules to require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to governments for the commercial development of oil, natural...
View ArticleTSX Is Extending The Comment Period On Proposed Rule Amendments - Disclosure...
On May 26, 2016, Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") published for comment proposed amendments to Parts IV and VI of the TSX Company Manual (the "Manual"). The proposed amendments: (i) introduce website...
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