Friday, March 28, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Classic: Know Your Debt Crises: This Too Shall Pass

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:28 PM PDT

The following was published at RealMoney on August 6th, 2007:read more...

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Published / Preprint: Contextual and Structural Representations of Market-mediated Economic Value. (arXiv:1403.7021v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PDT

How do we assign value to economic transactions? To answer this question, we must consider whether the value of objects is inherent, is a product of social interaction, or involves other mechanisms. Economic theory predicts that there is an optimal price for any market transaction, and can be observed during auctions or other bidding processes. However, there are also social, cultural, and...

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Published / Preprint: Modelling Returns and Volatilities During Financial Crises: a Time Varying Coefficient Approach. (arXiv:1403.7179v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PDT

We examine how the most prevalent stochastic properties of key financial time series have been affected during the recent financial crises. In particular we focus on changes associated with the remarkable economic events of the last two decades in the mean and volatility dynamics, including the underlying volatility persistence and volatility spillovers structure. Using daily data from several...

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Published / Preprint: How Stable Are Corporate Capital Structures?

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:43 AM PDT

Leverage cross sections more than a few years apart differ markedly, with similarities evaporating as the time between them lengthens. Many firms have high and low leverage at different times, but few keep debt-to-assets ratios consistently above 0.500. Capital structure stability is the exception, not the rule, occurs primarily at low leverage, and is virtually always temporary, with many firms...

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Vendor News: Zain Self-Care Application, Co-Created by Infosys and Zain Bahrain, Witnesses Strong Adoption across Bahrain

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:43 AM PDT

Infosys and Zain Bahrain, the most innovative telecommunications operator in Bahrain, have co-created Zain Self-Care, an application that is built using Infosys AssistEdge.

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Data wars: why Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon will eat the banker's lunch

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:39 AM PDT

I chaired a meeting of bankers last night, and we talked a lot about data and data leverage.   One thing that bubbled up to the service over and over again was the threat of GAFA รข€" Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (building upon last week's blog about same).read more...

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Published / Preprint: 27Mar/Amando M Tetangco Jr appointed Chair of the BIS Asian Consultative Council

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 02:07 AM PDT

BIS Press Release about A M Tetangco Jr being appointed Chairman of the BIS Asian Consultative Council (BIS Press Release, 27 March 2014)

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