Thursday, March 8, 2012

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @hftreview @equinix @tradeweb @jeffreypeel

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:58 AM PST

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @hftreview @equinix @tradeweb @jeffreypeel

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO : Top stories today via @alea_ @carla_zilka @ablemarkets @compscifact @refereefinance

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:43 AM PST

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO â–¸ Top stories today via @alea_ @carla_zilka @ablemarkets @compscifact @refereefinance

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Sustainable values-based banks outperform traditional mainstream banks

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:36 AM PST

I'm putting this on the blog, because we have a meeting planned for March 26th that will talk all about sustainable banking:read more...

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: US bourses to fine HFT data-cloggers [Financial Times]

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PST

By Telis Demos read more...

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Published / Preprint: Pricing Equity Swaps in an Economy with Jumps

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:42 AM PST

Applied Mathematical Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-24, Ahead of Print.

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The Anti-Consultancy Consultancy

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:53 AM PST

I’ve had this idea for 15 years or so, but forgot about it until I sat down and talked with a friend who worked for a dysfunctional company that recently let him go.  My experience working in corporate America is that the best and most effective firms listen to their employees, and set up some means of obtaining their opinions on how the business could be improved.  Bad firms have...

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Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: J Murdoch's BSkyB fate in MPs' hands

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:53 AM PST

Has a report by a select committee of MPs ever before decided whether a business person kept his or her senior job?read more...

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 11:42 PM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F

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Blog Post: PsyFiBlog: Manifesto For a Low-Growth World

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 10:22 PM PST

Escher Economics Trying to find a way out of the economic trap that we currently find ourselves in is like attempting to escape from one of those Escher drawings in which stairs spiral round on themselves forever and you find yourself walking up a staircase, upside down. Multiple generations of people have experienced nothing but economic growth, fuelling a consumption frenzy that our rulers are...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Yes, the Bubble Burst: That's What Bubbles Do

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 05:34 PM PST

The lending encouraged by the monetary policies of a Greenspan or a Bernanke “was bound to put money into the hands of people who didn’t know what to do with it,” writes the author of a new book. The consequences of such lax policies are what we have witnessed since 2007. Bubbles eventually burst, simply because that is what bubbles do. It is better to stop blowing them than to look about...

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Published / Preprint: Portfolios and risk premia for the long run. (arXiv:1203.1399v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 05:34 PM PST

This paper develops a method to derive optimal portfolios and risk premia explicitly in a general diffusion model for an investor with power utility and a long horizon. The market has several risky assets and is potentially incomplete. Investment opportunities are driven by, and partially correlated with, state variables which follow an autonomous diffusion. The framework nests models of...

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Published / Preprint: Differentiability of quadratic BSDEs generated by continuous martingales. (arXiv:0907.0941v3 [math.PR] UPDATED)

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 05:34 PM PST

In this paper we consider a class of BSDEs with drivers of quadratic growth, on a stochastic basis generated by continuous local martingales. We first derive the Markov property of a forward--backward system (FBSDE) if the generating martingale is a strong Markov process. Then we establish the differentiability of a FBSDE with respect to the initial value of its forward component. This enables us...

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Blog Post: MarketPsych: Middle Eastern Paranoia, Oil, and the Psychology of Playing Chicken

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

When I was a boy in west Texas the neighborhood children enjoyed playing chicken, usually with speeding shopping carts.  Two children were pilots and two children were bombs.  The pilots dutifully ran their bombs up to full speed, released them, and … CRASH.  Ideally your shopping cart remained standing after the collision, in which case you won.  Fortunately, two...

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Media: Appearing on Bloomberg Rewind Tonight at 8pm

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:15 PM PST

Appearing tonight on Bloomberg TV.

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RT @TandF_Economics Read it! Migrants & International Economic Linkages: A Meta-Overview by Peter #Nijkamp, Maso... http://t.co/7pu65mDu

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 01:38 PM PST

moneyscience: RT @TandF_Economics Read it! Migrants & International Economic Linkages: A Meta-Overview by Peter #Nijkamp, Maso... http://t.co/7pu65mDu

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Sprint To Junk LightSquared Deal

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PST

Sprint Nextel Corp. will pull the plug on its $13.5 billion agreement with LightSquared as soon as next week. The move comes after the Federal Communications Commission last month said it would withdraw LightSquared's preliminary approval and would not give it any further approvals due to interference with global positioning systems.read more...

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: Forecasting Flowers

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 12:07 PM PST

Last March I had a post that I titled "Modelling Flowers on the Wall". It was to do with the Great Victoria Flower Count that the people of this town engage early in each Spring in the hope of annoying friends and family living in less temperate parts of our continent. In that post I developed an extremely sophisticated forecasting model that can be used to predict the flower count each...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: Why finance isn't amoral as you think...

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 12:01 PM PST

Article by Robert Shiller -  quite interesting

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RT @QFINANCEnews: Breeding The Culture of Greed: Behind Big Banking Bonuses In The UK http://t.co/ZnnFWi8a

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 11:30 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @QFINANCEnews: Breeding The Culture of Greed: Behind Big Banking Bonuses In The UK http://t.co/ZnnFWi8a

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ICMA Centre News: Technical Aspects of Ships and Cargoes (Workshop) http://t.co/0vI3131Z

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 10:47 AM PST

BusinessSchools: ICMA Centre News: Technical Aspects of Ships and Cargoes (Workshop) http://t.co/0vI3131Z

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: Is Bruce Willis Available? Asteroid Could Possibly Hit Earth In Early 2013

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 10:22 AM PST

I suspect the consequences of a 60 meter asteroid hitting earth, were it to survive our atmosphere in one piece, would suck.   The energy released would be substantial.  Hundreds of nuclear bombs equivalently I would suppose from what I know.   Were that to hit a major population center…..     If it hit my house, you wouldn’t have the endless...

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High rolling MBAs head to Las Vegas

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 10:05 AM PST

Inaugural strategic marketing elective given thumbs up by students

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Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: FPGA's, Donât Forget Cell Processors â Redline Trading and FX

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 09:16 AM PST

There’s been a degree of press coverage over the last year around FPGA’s. Today I see Redline Trading are again leveraged Cell Processors with the announcement of a solution that provides ultra-low latency performance in the global FX markets.read more...

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An Introduction to QuantLib Development - London, 21-23rd May, 2012 'Early Bird' and 'Group' Discounts Available http://t.co/TMAxJ66N #tcm

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PST

moneyscience: An Introduction to QuantLib Development - London, 21-23rd May, 2012 'Early Bird' and 'Group' Discounts Available http://t.co/TMAxJ66N #tcm

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An Introduction to QuantLib Development - London, 21-23rd May, 2012 'Early Bird' and 'Group' Discounts Available http://t.co/4EhoDT89 #tcm

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 08:16 AM PST

fin_tech: An Introduction to QuantLib Development - London, 21-23rd May, 2012 'Early Bird' and 'Group' Discounts Available http://t.co/4EhoDT89 #tcm

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Breeding The Culture of Greed: Behind Big Banking Bonuses In The UK

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 07:41 AM PST

Research Library: Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 07:22 AM PST

Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus   Abstract This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts. The paper estimates the air pollution damages for each industry in the United States. An integrated-assessment model quantifies the marginal damages of air pollution emissions for the US which are multiplied...

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Research Library: The Effect of TARP on Bank Risk-Taking

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 05:14 AM PST

Lamont Black and Lieu Hazelwood Abstract One of the largest responses of the U.S. government to the recent financial crisis was the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). TARP was originally intended to stabilize the financial sector through the increased capitalization of banks. However, recipients of TARP funds were then encouraged to make additional loans despite increased borrower risk. In...

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @informaticacorp @claradan @fstechnology @kamakuraco

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 04:55 AM PST

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @informaticacorp @claradan @fstechnology @kamakuraco

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Research Library: High Frequency Trading Acceleration Using FPGAs (pdf)

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 04:02 AM PST

Christian Leber, Benjamin Geib, Heiner Litz   Abstract This paper presents the design of an application specific hardware for accelerating High Frequency Trading applications. It is optimized to achieve the lowest possible latency for interpreting market data feeds and hence enable minimal round-trip times for executing electronic stock trades. The implementation described in this work...

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Research Library: High-Frequency Technical Trading: The Importance of Speed

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 03:57 AM PST

Martin L. Scholtus Erasmus University Rotterdam - Erasmus School of Economics - Econometric Institute; Tinbergen Institute Dick J. C. Van Dijk Erasmus University Rotterdam - Erasmus School of Economics - Econometric Institute; ERIM Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 12-018/4 Abstract This paper investigates the importance of speed for technical trading rule performance for three highly...

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