Thursday, April 12, 2012

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @essecventures @ucberkeleynews @fisherosu_mba

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:50 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @essecventures @ucberkeleynews @fisherosu_mba

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: The synchronized and long-lasting structural change on commodity markets: evidence from high frequency data [Bicchetti, Maystre]

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:46 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The crowdsourced bank

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:04 AM PDT

I’ve been thinking about how to build a bank for a while, and have been partly inspired by the examples of (bank)simple and movenbank.read more...

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Published / Preprint: 12Apr/Bank of Korea - Bank for International Settlements - International Monetary Fund: joint conference concludes on macrofinancial linkages and their policy implications

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:32 AM PDT

Press release about BoK-BIS-IMF conference 2012 (BIS press release 11 April 2012)

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: Strategic Intuition

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:30 AM PDT

We all know how to be logical; at least most of us do.  But logic only takes us so far.  Real progress comes through those who are willing to take old ideas, combine them, and use them to solve an unrelated existing problem.read more...

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Blog Post: PsyFiBlog: Facebook Friends Can Make You Poor

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 11:14 PM PDT

Talk, Talk, Talk Economists have had an extraordinary new idea. They’ve noticed that people communicate with one another and this has opened up a new line of analysis. Maybe these social interactions are somehow important in investment decisions? Alright, enough sarcasm. The likely involvement of social interaction in causing the diffusion of investing ideas has been around for a while, but...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: A Radical Egalitarian Speaks

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:10 PM PDT

Most egalitarian redistribution schemes are couched in terms of efficiency, but this Stanford sociologist says to screw that:Unfortunately this all presupposes that money can buy what is needed to make the elite suburbs and poor inner cities generate equal results. When the expected equality does not materialize, more coercive policies must be introduced, the end game would be extremely ugly.

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: That Gary Shilling Video with the S&P 800 Call Everyone's Talking About

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:02 PM PDT

Video.

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Published / Preprint: Comparative and qualitative robustness for law-invariant risk measures. (arXiv:1204.2458v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

When estimating the risk of a P&L from historical data or Monte Carlo simulation, the robustness of the estimate is important. We argue here that Hampel's classical notion of qualitative robustness is not suitable for risk measurement and we propose and analyze a refined notion of robustness that applies to tail-dependent law-invariant convex risk measures on Orlicz space. This concept of...

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Published / Preprint: Semi-Static Hedging Based on a Generalized Reflection Principle on a Multi Dimensional Brownian Motion. (arXiv:1104.4548v2 [q-fin.PR] UPDATED)

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

On a multi-assets Black-Scholes economy, we introduce a class of barrier options. In this model we apply a generalized reflection principle in a context of the finite reflection group acting on a Euclidean space to give a valuation formula and the semi-static hedge.

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Axioma: Make Only the Bets You Intend to Make

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT

AllAboutAlpha discusses alpha, risk and constraints with Axioma CEO Dr. Sebastián Ceria.

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Blog Post: frontrunthedelta: New Blog of Interest: Limit Up Trading

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:09 PM PDT

For those interested in automated trading strategies, currency trading, and software development in the trading world, check out Limit Up Trading.  I have had a great deal of dialogue with the author over the last few months and he has proven to be very knowledgeable regarding markets, microstructure, and the programming necessary to properly operate in today's market.   He...

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Vendor News: ITG to Announce First Quarter 2012 Results

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT

table.hugin { border-} td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-} NEW YORK, April 11, 2012 - ITG (NYSE: ITG), a leading agency research broker and financial technology firm, plans to announce first quarter 2012 financial results on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in a press release that will be issued before the opening of the market.  The press release will also be available on the firm's website at...

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Tyrus Quits London For Monaco

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Tyrus Capital has all but left London, relocating most of its staffâ€"including its top staffâ€"to Monaco.read more...

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: EconAcademics.org

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:32 AM PDT

This, last evening, from Christian Zimmermann, at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: "Dear Blogger, Congratulations, you made the list! The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is launching a blog aggregator, EconAcademics.org, to highlight and promote the discussion of  economics research. Your blog is part of this effort. This email explains why and how you can help promote the...

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Does income inequality lead to global busts?

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:25 AM PDT

Blog Post: iMFdirect: Seven Billion Reasons to Worry: The Financial Impact of Living Longer

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:21 AM PDT

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @moonlightpr @ischmerken @moneyscience @mfdvbrokers

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:57 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @moonlightpr @ischmerken @moneyscience @mfdvbrokers

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Research Library: The Supply and Demand of Alpha (pdf)

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:23 AM PDT

Harry Markowitz, Robert Snigaroff and David Wroblewski Abstract This paper analyzes the supply and demand for alpha by institutional investors and them money managers who serve them. A large database of products offered by such managers is used to estimate how the demand for such products increases as a function of achieved excess returns and how the ability to produce such excess returns...

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Research Library: Predicting Financial Distress and the Performance of Distressed Stocks (pdf)

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:18 AM PDT

John Y. Campbell, Jens Hilscher, and Jan Szilagyi   Abstract In this paper we consider the measurement and pricing of distress risk. We present a model of corporate failure in which accounting and market-based measures forecast the likelihood of future financial distress. Our best model is more accurate than leading alternative measures of corporate failure risk. We then use our measure...

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