Thursday, September 17, 2015

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Okay, Go Ahead, Sweat the Fed

Posted: 17 Sep 2015 01:37 AM PDT

Photo Credit: Nate Steiner || There is always enough time to panic. ;)read more...

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Gavin Andresen on Why Bitcoin Will Become Unreliable Next Year Without an Urgent Fix | MIT Technology Review

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 10:32 PM PDT

Man who took over #Bitcoin stewardship from mysterious inventor says currency is in serious trouble http://t.co/6BSDBOTU2r via @moneyscience — D. Geromichalos…

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Published / Preprint: Optimal Insurance with Rank-Dependent Utility and Increasing Indemnities. (arXiv:1509.04839v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 05:37 PM PDT

Bernard et al. (2015) study an optimal insurance design problem where an individual's preference is of the rank-dependent utility (RDU) type, and show that in general an optimal contract covers both large and small losses. However, their contracts suffer from a problem of moral hazard for paying more compensation for a smaller loss. This paper addresses this setback by exogenously imposing the...

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Published / Preprint: Estimating Tipping Points in Feedback-Driven Financial Networks. (arXiv:1509.04952v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 05:37 PM PDT

Much research has been conducted arguing that tipping points at which complex systems experience phase transitions are difficult to identify. To test the existence of tipping points in financial markets, based on the alternating offer strategic model we propose a network of bargaining agents who mutually either cooperate or where the feedback mechanism between trading and price dynamics is driven...

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Published / Preprint: Modeling Concordances of Company's Investment Directions With Its Market Attraction. (arXiv:1509.05024v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 05:36 PM PDT

This work models the interconnection of company's investment managers' representations and the market attraction of its shares. The models that reflect the connection of the company's market effectiveness indices and parameters of its economic activity are created on the basis of the Mean-Variance Analysis and Regression Analysis. On another side, expert evaluation methods also clarified the same...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: With China Slowing, Faster Reforms Critical to Generate Jobs

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 07:46 AM PDT

By W. Raphael Lam, Xiaoguang Liu, and Alfred Schipke                     read more...

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Vendor News: Qantas Credit Union Selects Infosys Finacle to Transform Digital Capabilities and Services with Cloud Flexibility

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 05:16 AM PDT

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a product subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), today announced that Qantas Credit Union, a top Australian Credit Union, has chosen Infosys Finacle to improve its customer’s digital experience, as part of their business transformation strategy.

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