Senate Agriculture Committee Votes Overwhelmingly to Confirm Giancarlo as...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry this morning voted overwhelmingly to confirm the nomination of J. Christopher Giancarlo as Chairman for the U.S. Commodity Futures...
View ArticleCFTCâs DMO and DCR Issue Conditional No-Action Relief from Reporting...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissionâs (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk (Divisions) announced today that they have provided no-action relief to Cantor...
View ArticleCFTC Grants SEF Registration to LedgerX LLC
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has issued an Order of Registration to LedgerX LLC (LedgerX), granting it registration status with the CFTC as a Swap...
View ArticleDivision of Market Oversight Announces Review of Swaps Reporting Regulations
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissionâs (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today announced it is launching a comprehensive review of the swap data reporting regulations found in...
View ArticleCFTC Launches New Video Series Featuring Fraud Victims
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched âTrue Fraud Stories,â a video series about how cunning fraudsters lured smart investors into fraudulent investment schemes that...
View ArticleCFTC Acting Chairman Giancarlo Appoints Daniel Gorfine as LabCFTC Director...
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today appointed Daniel Gorfine to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective...
View ArticleCFTC Grants DCO Registration to LedgerX LLC
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) announced today that by a unanimous vote of the Commission, it has issued an order granting LedgerX, LLC (LedgerX) registration as a...
View ArticleCFTC Staff Extends Time-Limited No-Action Relief on the Applicability of...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissionâs (CFTC) Divisions of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO), Clearing and Risk, and Market Oversight (Divisions) today issued a time-limited...
View ArticleCFTC Orders New York Trader Simon Posen to Pay a $635,000 Civil Monetary...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Simon Posen of New York, New York for engaging in thousands of incidents of âspoofingâ â...
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Redacted Version of the July 2017 FOMC Statement
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View ArticleLEGO Boost: Continuing to Renew & Extend the Core
Great firms don't simply diversify into new businesses when their core business appears to be maturing. Diversification attempts sometimes have two deleterious effects. First, companies find...
View ArticleAn Alternative Estimation of a Time-Varying Parameter Model....
A non-Bayesian, generalized least squares (GLS)-based approach is formally proposed to estimate a class of time-varying AR parameter models. This approach has partly been used by Ito et al. (2014,...
View ArticleRobust Pricing and Hedging around the Globe. (arXiv:1707.08545v1 [math.PR])
We consider the martingale optimal transport duality for c\`adl\`ag processes with given initial and terminal laws. Strong duality and existence of dual optimizers (robust semi-static superhedging...
View ArticleEquilibrium Liquidity Premia. (arXiv:1707.08464v1 [q-fin.PM])
We study equilibrium returns in a continuous-time model where heterogeneous mean-variance investors trade subject to quadratic transaction costs. The unique equilibrium is characterized by a system of...
View ArticlePower Phone Scripts: 500 Word-for-Word Questions, Phrases, and Conversations...
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View ArticleAnalytics: The Agile Way
For years, organizations have struggled to make sense out of their data. IT projects designed to provide employees with dashboards, KPIs, and business-intelligence tools often take a year or more to...
View ArticleBuilding Wealth through Venture Capital: A Practical Guide for Investors and...
Building Wealth Through Venture Capital is a practical how-to guide for both sides of the table—investors and the entrepreneurs they fund. This expert author duo combines renowned venture capital...
View ArticleWhen Demand Increases Cause Shakeouts -- by Thomas N. Hubbard, Michael J. Mazzeo
Standard economic models that guide competition policy imply that demand increases should lead to more, not fewer firms. However, Sutton's (1991) model illustrates that in some cases, demand increases...
View ArticleUsing Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field...
Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and achieve better outcomes? In theory, setting goals can help present-biased students to mitigate their self-control problem. In...
View ArticleMulti Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product...
We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small open economy of Belgium. We observe quarterly firm-product data at the 8-digit level...
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