Friday, March 27, 2015

MoneyScience News

MoneyScience News


Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Redefining power distribution using big data

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:37 PM PDT

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: The Elusive Quest for International Policy Cooperation

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 11:26 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Complacent corporate bankers ... do you need to wake up?

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:37 AM PDT

So I’m talking with a group of corporate bankers and the conversation goes into the normal alleyway.  This alleyway is the one that says: “we are corporate bankers and will not be disrupted”.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Network formation with value heterogeneity: centrality, segregation and adverse effects. (arXiv:1503.07389v1 [q-fin.EC])

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 05:30 PM PDT

We investigate formation of economic and social networks where agents may form or cut ties. The novelty is combining a setup where agents are heterogeneous in their talent for generating value in the links they form and value may also accrue from indirect ties. We provide sufficient conditions for assortative matching: agents of greater talent have partners of greater talent. A novel feature is...

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Published / Preprint: The intensity of the random variable intercept in the sector of negative probabilities. (arXiv:1503.07495v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 05:30 PM PDT

We consider properties of the measurement intensity $\rho$ of a random variable for which the probability density function represented by the corresponding Wigner function attains negative values on a part of the domain. We consider a simple economic interpretation of this problem. This model is used to present the applicability of the method to the analysis of the negative probability on...

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Skydive Mag - How DANGEROUS is Skydiving?

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 01:37 AM PDT

Quite old but interesting: Micromorts and the risk of living - http://t.co/ZHCKal7vqR — moneyscience (@moneyscience) March 25, 2015

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