Monday, March 11, 2013

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Can economics determine the performance of Football managers and answer the question of which manager is next to face the sack?

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 03:56 AM PDT

A recently published research paper by ICMA Centre Professor Adrian Bell, Professor Chris Brooks and PhD researcher Tom Markham is gaining national attention in both the finance sector and the football industry.  The paper titled “The performance of football club managers: skill or luck?” is now available online and freely downloadable in an open access Journal. The paper develops...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Fixing Our Banks: Part Three - the Shareholder's View

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:22 AM PDT

Last week, I introduced a discussion about Fixing Our Banks.  This is based upon a distinguished panel who each gave a perspective covering bank, shareholder, employee, customer and auditor’s views of how to fix the banking system.read more...

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Vendor News: Fidessa's integrated Market Abuse Monitoring service now available in Europe

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:11 AM PDT

Published / Preprint: Bubbles, Jumps, and Scaling from Properly Anticipated Prices. (arXiv:1303.2044v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 05:35 PM PDT

Prices in financial markets exhibit extreme jumps far more often than can be accounted for by external news. Further, magnitudes of price changes are correlated over long times. These so called stylized facts are quantified by scaling laws similar to, for example, turbulent fluids. They are believed to reflect the complex interactions of heterogenous agents which give rise to irrational herding....

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: No single DBMS will meet all your needs

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Only a few years ago many companies that I encountered used MySQL (or Postgres) for everything! Folks got things to work, but had problems running simple queries against their big data sets. Shortly after that a new generation of MPP database startups came along (Greenplum, Asterdata, Netezza), then a flurry of NoSQL databases, and Hadoop emerged. Nowadays companies have a variety of systems...

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