Thursday, January 23, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Systemic Risk Stems from Asset-Liability Mismatches

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:58 PM PST

What happens when a crisis hits?  There are demands for cash payment, and the payments can’t be made because the entities have short liabilities requiring immediate payment, and long illiquid assets that no longer can be sold for a price consistent with average market conditions.  When there are many firms for which this is true, and they rely on each other’s solvency, that creates...

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Published / Preprint: Estimate nothing. (arXiv:1401.5666v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 06:02 PM PST

In the econometrics of financial time series, it is customary to take some parametric model for the data, and then estimate the parameters from historical data. This approach suffers from several problems. Firstly, how is estimation error to be quantified, and then taken into account when making statements about the future behaviour of the observed time series? Secondly, decisions may be taken...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Emerging Markets Need To Do More To Remain Engines of Global Growth

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:18 PM PST

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Winner of Ethical Finance Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 05:54 AM PST

Gain the insight of Rosenbaum and Pearl’s combined 30+ years of experience on a multitude of transactions, as well as input received from numerous investment bankers, investment professionals at private equity firms and hedge funds, attorneys, corporate executives, peer authors, and university professors.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Why free markets die: An evolutionary perspective. (arXiv:1401.5314v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:12 AM PST

Company mergers and acquisitions are often perceived to act as catalysts for corporate growth in free markets systems: it is conventional wisdom that those activities lead to better and more efficient markets. However, the broad adoption of this perception into corporate strategy is prone to result in a less diverse and more unstable environment, dominated by either very large or very small niche...

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Published / Preprint: Modeling the stylized facts of wholesale system marginal price (SMP) and the impacts of regulatory reforms on the Greek Electricity Market. (arXiv:1401.5452v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:12 AM PST

This work presents the results of an empirical research with the target of modeling the stylized facts of the daily expost System Marginal Price (SMP) of the Greek wholesale electricity market, using data from January 2004 to December of 2011. SMP is considered here as the footprint of an underline stochastic and nonlinear process that bears all the information reflecting not only the effects of...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: KYC, Laundering and Regulators: a Lose-Lose Situation

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:09 AM PST

I chaired a meeting today about KYC: Know Your Customer.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Risk narrative disclosure strategies to enhance organizational legitimacy: Evidence from UAE financial institutions

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Auditing firms are the natural rating agencies for balance sheet debt due to an informational advantage

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: European perspectives on corporate non-financial disclosure: Evidence from the Southeast

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Corporate e-disclosure determinants: Evidence from the Brazilian market

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Determinants of disclosure level of related party transactions in Indonesia

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 PM PST



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