Friday, March 16, 2012

MoneyScience News

MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Mish on Conflict and Bias

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 03:50 AM PDT

Nothing heats up the financial web like when Michael Shedlock gets pissed off.

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: CFTC Targets Rapid Trades [Wall Street Journal]

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 03:44 AM PDT

By Scott Patterson read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: QFINANCE: QFINANCE: News Briefing (March 9' 15, 2012)

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 03:17 AM PDT

AXA Private Equity Foundation signs £100,000 sponsorship deal with Cass Business School http://t.co/tut8Jenu @cassinthenews

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 02:24 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: AXA Private Equity Foundation signs £100,000 sponsorship deal with Cass Business School http://t.co/tut8Jenu @cassinthenews

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Contactless payments are already past their sell-by date

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 01:56 AM PDT

Spent most of this week at a payments conference.read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @HofstraU @SimonSchool @Booth_Insider

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:30 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @HofstraU @SimonSchool @Booth_Insider

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862-1951) was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics in the US http://t.co/G481YJIr #tcm

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:29 AM PDT

moneyscience: Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862-1951) was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics in the US http://t.co/G481YJIr #tcm

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

@Cassinthenews: AXA Private Equity Foundation signs £100,000 sponsorship deal with Cass http://t.co/Tn87scD1

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:26 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: @Cassinthenews: AXA Private Equity Foundation signs £100,000 sponsorship deal with Cass http://t.co/Tn87scD1

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: Debtwatch: Advanced Political Economy Lectures

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:07 PM PDT

These are the first two lectures of my Advanced Political Economy class at the University of Western Sydney. The class offers an in depth critique of the failures of neoclassical theories, as well as detailing my approach to a new economics. Click on the links to download the Powerpoint slides for the lectures. Lecture 01: Part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: Grad. School Rankings for Econometrics

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:59 PM PDT

If you're interested in how U.S. graduate economics programs rank when it comes to econometrics, check here. © 2012, David E. Giles

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Published / Preprint: Two kinds of Phase transitions in a Voting model

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:09 PM PDT

In this paper, we discuss a voting model with two candidates, C_1 and C_2. We 731 consider two types of voters--herders and independents. The voting of independents is based on their fundamental values; on the other hand, the voting of herders is based on the number of previous votes. We can identify two kinds of phase transitions. One is information cascade transition similar to a phase...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: Falkenblog: Derman Rambles on Risk

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 06:48 PM PDT

I generally find Emmanuel Derman to be a very thoughtful, but this interview with Russ Roberts made little sense. They were talking about Derman's latest book Models Behaving Badly, and they had these little riffs on financial theory:Derman: But I think Black-Scholes is much better than CAPM. Although it is based on the same idea. Because different stocks really have such different risk...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Axioma to Quants: Beware of Cherry Picking by Optimizers

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:43 PM PDT

Reliance on optimization tools that in turn rely on standard “user risk factors” will make factor alignment worse, caution three executives of Axioma. An optimizer will cherry pick “the aspects of the model of expected returns that it deems desirable when gauged on the yardstick of marginal contribution to systemic risk.” This amounts to making, and betting on, the erroneous assumption...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Published / Preprint: Regularity of the Optimal Stopping Problem for Jump Diffusions. (arXiv:0902.2479v6 [math.OC] UPDATED)

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:30 PM PDT

The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the L\'{e}vy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: MoneyManagersLive: The First Break?

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 04:13 PM PDT

Is this the first move in the long awaited end to the bond bull market or just a short-term blip? Treasury yields shot up yesterday after comments by the Federal Reserve seemed to indicate that since the economy is picking up there would not be a need for another round of bond purchases. Interest rates have been pushed to historic lows due to slow economic growth, central bank purchases, flight...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: mathfinance: Yield Curve Prediction Week in Review 150312

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Consistent Long-Term Yield Curve Prediction: an arbitrage-free non-parametric yield curve prediction model which takes the full (discretized) yield curve as state variable, allowing us to separate clearly the tasks of estimating the volatility structure and of calibrating market prices of risk.An Introduction to 6 Machine Learning Models: a high level summary of underlying algorithmic...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

RT @TandF_Economics We are offering 7 days FREE ACCESS to 4 top Finance Journals! Sign in / register to start yo... http://t.co/HPCClNhw

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 03:18 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @TandF_Economics We are offering 7 days FREE ACCESS to 4 top Finance Journals! Sign in / register to start yo... http://t.co/HPCClNhw

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

RT @QFINANCEnews: Greed Is Indeed Good at Goldman? http://t.co/d1fWgedL

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 03:18 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @QFINANCEnews: Greed Is Indeed Good at Goldman? http://t.co/d1fWgedL

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: iMFdirect: Avoiding a Lost Generation

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 03:09 PM PDT

By Nemat Shafikread more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: FinanceClippings: An open letter to Goldman Sachs

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:01 PM PDT

The Epicurean Dealmaker pens an awesome open letter to Goldman Sachs. And yet your firm still pretends that you put your clients’ interests first. Bullshit. You are a giant f***ing hedge fund which has been trading for its own account for years. The rot has even extended into one of the last presumed bastions of client service left at your organization: M&A advisory. You don’t have...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

RT @LenCosta3rd: @CFAInstitute Take 15 Video Podcast: Trends in Algorithmic #Trading and Developments in #Asia http://t.co/NTifHiDP #quant

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:35 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @LenCosta3rd: @CFAInstitute Take 15 Video Podcast: Trends in Algorithmic #Trading and Developments in #Asia http://t.co/NTifHiDP #quant

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: substructural: Garbage Collection in JavaScript

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:33 PM PDT

A recent post on Scirra claimed that reusing long-lived objects was an ingredient to good JavaScript garbage collection behavior. That made me curious. This claim is generally true when the garbage collector in question is a generational one. Generational garbage collectors split the heap (memory from where all non-stack allocated things are allocated from) into several "generations". The...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: InstituteforNewEconomicThinking: Overwhelming Response to Call for YSI in Berlin: INET's Class of 2012

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:15 PM PDT

We reserved 25 slots, but we got 563 applications. Something had to be done.read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

ICMA Centre News: Brochure Request http://t.co/60oEhnKf

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:06 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: ICMA Centre News: Brochure Request http://t.co/60oEhnKf

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: TimingLogic: Intellectual Dishonesty & Rationalizations - Are Stephen Roach's Comments About China His Irving Fisher Moment?

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Before Roach became a shill for what clearly is rationalized intellectual-dishonesty, I commented on here often that I appreciated his surly views as a contrarian.   That said, Roach has never been shown to be an authority on money or the dynamics behind globalization and China’s role in those dynamics.    But, since Roach is no longer involved in economics day-to-day...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: CLANSMAN2: Progressive Credit Risk Management (CRM) Improving The Cost and Availability Of Corporate Credit

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:48 AM PDT

 read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Published / Preprint: Enhancing network robustness for malicious attacks

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:40 AM PDT

In a recent work [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3838 (2011)], the authors proposed a simple measure for network robustness under malicious attacks on nodes. With a greedy algorithm, they found the optimal stru 8d5 cture with respect to this quantity is an onion structure in which high-degree nodes form a core surrounded by rings of nodes with decreasing degree. However, in real networks the...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: ThreeToedSloth: Milestones

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PDT

My paper with Aaron Clauset and Mark Newman on power laws has just passed 1000 citations on Google Scholar, slightly ahead of schedule. (Actually, the accuracy of Aaron's prediction is a little creepy.) I am spending the day reading over my student Daniel McDonald's dissertation draft. The calendar tells me that I was in the middle of writing up my own dissertation in mid-March 2001. But this...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

Blog Post: FINalternatives: Dai, Capula Quant Head, Out

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:25 AM PDT

Capula Investment Management has lost its brainy systematic trading chief, Qiang Dai.read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO : Top stories today via @historysquared @TonyFratto @BusinessSchools

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 06:58 AM PDT

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3zw0GO â–¸ Top stories today via @historysquared @TonyFratto @BusinessSchools

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.

AXA Private Equity Foundation signs £100,000 sponsorship deal with Cass

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 06:08 AM PDT

AXA Private Equity has signed a £100,000 sponsorship agreement with Cass's M&A Research Centre.read more...

Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.