A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?: The phrase âtoo good to...
A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?: The phrase âtoo good to be trueâ especially applies to investing.... http://bit.ly/n5hyBr
View ArticleEntrevista a Ray Dalio: Ray Dalio, manager del hedge fund Bridgewater, habla...
Entrevista a Ray Dalio: Ray Dalio, manager del hedge fund Bridgewater, habla en la siguiente entrevista sobre su... http://bit.ly/oM1Op2
View ArticleRT @onertipaday: playitbyr: http://bit.ly/neF4iH. like ggplot but produces...
RT @onertipaday: playitbyr: http://bit.ly/neF4iH. like ggplot but produces sounds instead of pictures. cool! #rstats (via @hadleywickham)
View ArticleMetals USA Reports Second Quarter 2011 Sales Growth of 51% on 33% Volume Growth
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Metals USA Holdings Corp. (NYSE: MUSA) today reported its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011. Net sales for the second quarter...
View ArticleRT Is CRAN down? #rstats #monday RT @modnostics http://bit.ly/nK5oTA
RT Is CRAN down? #rstats #monday RT @modnostics http://bit.ly/nK5oTA
View ArticleRT @FooWaa: RT @Voltaire_7 - PEDOFILIA â ALEMANHA INVESTIGA IGREJA...
RT @FooWaa: RT @Voltaire_7 - PEDOFILIA â ALEMANHA INVESTIGA IGREJA http://t.co/5IDEnT0 #HFN #HFO #HFP #HFQ #HFR #HFS #HFT #HFU #HFV #HFX #HFY #HF...
View ArticleProspective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth -- by James A....
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that...
View ArticleThe Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing...
How much are people willing to forego to be honest, to follow the rules? When people do break the rules, what can standard data sources tell us about their behavior? Standard economic models of crime...
View ArticleNetwork Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption -- by...
This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees...
View ArticleChemical Fertilizer and Migration in China -- by Avraham Ebenstein, Jian...
This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural...
View ArticleHow Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes...
This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)...
View ArticleStepping Stones: Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes -- by Tara...
More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are driven by the choices of district leadership. In other cases, principals initiate the...
View ArticleDefying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation...
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the...
View ArticleThe Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to...
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance...
View ArticleOn Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions -- by Jonathan A. Parker
We do not have a good measure of the effects of fiscal policy in a recession because the methods that we use to estimate the effects of fiscal policy -- both those using the observed outcomes following...
View ArticleOver-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications...
The paper studies forecasts of real growth rates and budget balances made by official government agencies among 33 countries. In general, the forecasts are found: (i) to have a positive average bias,...
View ArticleAre All Ratings Created Equal? The Impact of Issuer Size on the Pricing of...
We examine whether rating agencies (Moody's, S&P, and Fitch) reward large issuers of mortgage-backed securities, who bring substantial business, by granting them unduly favorable ratings. The...
View ArticleCorporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law -- by Michelle J. White
Bankruptcy is the legal process by which the debts of firms, individuals, and occasionally governments in financial distress are resolved. Bankruptcy law always includes three components. First, it...
View ArticleHas the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from...
From 1991 to 2003, the fraction of Medicaid recipients enrolled in HMOs and other forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) increased from 11 percent to 58 percent. This increase was largely driven by state...
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