Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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Published / Preprint: Corporate governance reforms in emerging countries: A case study of Bangladesh

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: The effects of mandatory IFRS adoption: A review of evidence based on accounting standard setting criteria

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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Published / Preprint: Swedish and Dutch listed companiesâ compliance with IAS 36 paragraph 134

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:35 AM PST



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IBM denies plans to cut 26% of workforce

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:12 AM PST

IBM denies plans to cut 26% of workforce http://t.co/d0Iap6oHeT — moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 27, 2015

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Published / Preprint: Mandatory Portfolio Disclosure, Stock Liquidity, and Mutual Fund Performance

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

We examine the impact of mandatory portfolio disclosure by mutual funds on stock liquidity and fund performance. We develop a model of informed trading with disclosure and test its predictions using the May 2004 SEC regulation requiring more frequent disclosure. Stocks with higher fund ownership, especially those held by more informed funds or subject to greater information asymmetry, experience...

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Published / Preprint: Learning about Consumption Dynamics

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

This paper characterizes U.S. consumption dynamics from the perspective of a Bayesian agent facing realistic high-dimensional macroeconomic learning problems using standard Markov switching models. Joint parameter, model, and state learning generates substantially different subjective beliefs about consumption dynamics compared to the standard, full-information rational expectations benchmark...

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Published / Preprint: Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:27 AM PST

Many leading asset pricing models are specified so that the term structure of dividend volatility is either flat or upward sloping. Related, these models predict that the term structures of expected returns and volatilities on dividend strips (i.e., claims to dividends paid over a prespecified interval) are also upward sloping. However, the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. This discrepancy...

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Published / Preprint: Change You Can Believe In? Hedge Fund Data Revisions

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:06 AM PST

We analyze the reliability of voluntary disclosures of financial information, focusing on widely-employed publicly available hedge fund databases. Tracking changes to statements of historical performance recorded between 2007 and 2011, we find that historical returns are routinely revised. These revisions are not merely random or corrections of earlier mistakes; they are partly forecastable by...

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Published / Preprint: CEO Connectedness and Corporate Fraud

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:06 AM PST

We find connections CEOs develop with top executives and directors through their appointment decisions increase the risk of corporate fraud. Appointment-based CEO connectedness in executive suites and boardrooms increases the likelihood of committing fraud and decreases the likelihood of detection. Additionally, it decreases the expected costs of fraud by helping conceal fraudulent activity,...

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Published / Preprint: Innovation, Growth, and Asset Prices

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 01:06 AM PST

We examine the asset pricing implications of a production economy whose long-term growth prospects are endogenously determined by innovation and R&D. In equilibrium, R&D endogenously drives a small, persistent component in productivity that generates long-run uncertainty about economic growth. With recursive preferences, households fear that persistent downturns in economic growth are accompanied...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: What are the biggest challenges in banking today?

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 12:17 AM PST

Sometimes social media kicks off great discussions about banking.  In fact, most of what I learn, collaborate, corroborate, develop, gain, understand and envisage comes primarily through my social network.  The latest dialogue that spawns its own blog entry is from the Facebook Group Next Bank (I’m speaking at Next Bank Europe btw on February 11th … you can be there with 25%...

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Published / Preprint: Convergence of an Euler discretisation scheme for the Heston stochastic-local volatility model with CIR interest rates. (arXiv:1501.06084v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:38 PM PST

We consider the Heston-CIR stochastic-local volatility model in the context of foreign exchange markets, which contains both a stochastic and a local volatility component for the exchange rate combined with the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross dynamics for the domestic and foreign interest rates. We study a full truncation scheme for simulating the stochastic volatility component and the two interest rates and...

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Published / Preprint: Pricing Derivatives with Counterparty Risk and Collateralization: A Fixed Point Approach. (arXiv:1501.06221v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:38 PM PST

This paper studies a valuation framework for financial contracts subject to reference and counterparty default risks with collateralization requirement. We propose a fixed point approach to analyze the mark-to-market contract value with counterparty risk provision, and show that it is a unique bounded and continuous fixed point via contraction mapping. This leads us to develop an accurate...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: What's not to love about free data

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 01:58 PM PST

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Vendor News: January 26, 2015 - SS&C Technologies Fourth Quarter and 2014 Earnings Release Notice

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 01:36 PM PST