Friday, January 11, 2013

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Call for Papers: 15th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics: Economy and Organisation, July 2013 http://t.co/AaIDXWD0

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:10 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Call for Papers: 15th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics: Economy and Organisation, July 2013 http://t.co/AaIDXWD0

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IMA Conference on Mathematics in Finance, April 2013, Edinburgh, UK #quant @TCJUK http://t.co/vZTZpQNr

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:00 AM PST

BusinessSchools: IMA Conference on Mathematics in Finance, April 2013, Edinburgh, UK #quant @TCJUK http://t.co/vZTZpQNr

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Call for Papers: WEHIA 2013, 18th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents http://t.co/aFBHC0Xm

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 03:40 AM PST

moneyscience: Call for Papers: WEHIA 2013, 18th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents http://t.co/aFBHC0Xm

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Call for Papers: WEHIA 2013, 18th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents http://t.co/wjKm46Bh

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 03:28 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Call for Papers: WEHIA 2013, 18th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents http://t.co/wjKm46Bh

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Presentations from the Conference: Market MicroStructure - Confronting Many Viewpoints available here: http://t.co/zCSXJp1w

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 03:28 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Presentations from the Conference: Market MicroStructure - Confronting Many Viewpoints available here: http://t.co/zCSXJp1w

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: LIBOR fixing - the timeline

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 03:28 AM PST

It’s the end of the first week of January and we want to end on an upbeat note.  So what do we get as this morning’s headlines?  A whole heap of dross about LIBOR, a sprinkling of stuff about mis-selling insurances and illegal mortgage foreclosures (read things worth reading every day if you want to keep up with these headlines).read more...

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Blog Post: OlsenBlog: Review of 2012 & Outlook for 2013

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 02:34 AM PST

Political and economic uncertainty paralyzed the markets and was a drag on market liquidity, which contributed to erratic market moves in 2012. At OLSEN, we introduced new trading models with refined money management rules and upgraded our risk management framework. We were invited to participate in a research project funded by the EU to analyze the microstructure of markets. Our fully automated...

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Speculative Bubbles and the Cross-Sectional Variation in Stock Returns

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 01:41 AM PST

Evidence suggests that rational, periodically collapsing speculative bubbles may be pervasive in stock markets globally, but there is no research that considers them at the individual stock level. In this study we develop and test an empirical asset pricing model that allows for speculative bubbles to affect stock returns. We show that stocks incorporating larger bubbles yield higher returns....

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68 ⸠Top stories today via @CarlsonNews @UMiamiBusiness @ColumbiaBizNews

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:39 PM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68 â–¸ Top stories today via @CarlsonNews @UMiamiBusiness @ColumbiaBizNews

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Published / Preprint: Impact of corporate governance regulations on Indian stock market volatility and efficiency

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: The effect of audit committee characteristics on earnings management: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Business groups, block holdings and firm value

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Convergence obstacles with IASB standards: Evidence from Iran

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST



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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: The Order of Battle in Financial Planning for Ordinary Folks

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:27 PM PST

I sat down to talk with a young couple with three kids about personal finance.  This taxes me, because I’m not a financial planner.  I can remember most but not all of the rules on the taxation of various investments.read more...

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Vendor News: Infosys results for the quarter ended December 31, 2012

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:23 PM PST

Infosys reported Q3 revenues of US$ 1,911 million; growth of 5.8% Year on Year. 53 clients added in the quarter by Infosys and its subsidiaries.

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Published / Preprint: Modeling of income distribution in the European Union with the Fokker-Planck equation. (arXiv:1301.2076v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:41 PM PST

Herein, we applied statistical physics to study incomes of three (low-, medium- and high-income) society classes instead of the two (low- and medium-income)classes studied so far. In the frame of the threshold nonlinear Langevin dynamics and its threshold Fokker-Planck counterpart, we derived a unified formula for description of income of all society classes, by way of example, of those of the...

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Published / Preprint: Consumers behavior of Portuguese wine. (arXiv:1301.2169v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:41 PM PST

There are few papers about the consumption pattern of the Portuguese wine, using econometrics techniques. This work, pretend to analyze the consumers behavior of the wine produced in Portugal, determining the demand equation with panel data methods. There were used statistical data available in the Alentejo Regional Winegrowing Commission (CVRA) website. These data were obtained from a study...

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Published / Preprint: The Role of Social Feedback in Financing of Technology Ventures. (arXiv:1301.2196v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:41 PM PST

This research examines relationship between staging of Venture Capital (VC) investments and social feedback visible in publicly available data on the Web. We address the question of Venture Capital investment sensitivity to performance and prospects of new venture, given as likelihood of obtaining future financing, available exit options and duration between investment rounds. We argue that in...

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The Brain Man: Richard Peterson, Sentiment Analysis and MarketPsychData

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:30 PM PST

Back in September of last year I was fortunate enough to attend the Battle of the Quants event in London, a veritable schmoozefest for some of the brightest folks in the Quant world, stuffed full of rising stars with a few legendary old timers thrown in for good measure.read more...

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Vendor News: SS&C Technologies Fourth Quarter and 2012 Earnings Release Notice

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:03 AM PST