Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their...
I develop a model in which a child's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in his household to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of...
View Article"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications --...
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those...
View ArticleHow Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing? -- by...
We analyze the interaction of firm product quality and pricing decisions with financial distress and bankruptcy in the airline industry. We consider an airline's choices of quality and price as dynamic...
View ArticleGauging the Generosity of Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Differences Between...
We develop an empirical method to assess the generosity of employer-sponsored insurance across groups within the U.S. population. A key feature of this method is its simplicity - it only requires data...
View ArticleThe Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition...
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor...
View ArticlePublic Consumption Over the Business Cycle -- by Ruediger Bachmann, Jinhui Bai
What fraction of the business cycle volatility of government purchases is accounted for as endogenous reactions to overall macroeconomic conditions? We answer this question in the framework of a...
View ArticleWall Street Helps Boehner Boost Fundraising as House Speaker: Employees at...
Wall Street Helps Boehner Boost Fundraising as House Speaker: Employees at the New York hedge fund Paulson & Co.... http://bit.ly/nT9pAL
View ArticleEvaluating Hedge Fund Performance: Past this very basic definition, funds can...
Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance: Past this very basic definition, funds can be broken down into any number of ... http://bit.ly/ofA9qA
View ArticleHedge fund spotlight: Event-driven, managed futures and credit...
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View ArticleHedge fund gossip has a bad side effect - Video: http://t.co/giYLJAK
Hedge fund gossip has a bad side effect - Video: http://t.co/giYLJAK
View ArticleJudge Blocks Dodgers From Tapping Hedge-Fund Loan - Wall Street Journal...
Judge Blocks Dodgers From Tapping Hedge-Fund Loan - Wall Street Journal http://on.wsj.com/nBEOPW #LA
View ArticleToshiba and Informatica team up: In addition, influenced by the High...
Toshiba and Informatica team up: In addition, influenced by the High Frequency Trading (HFT) and Smart Orde... http://bit.ly/rcwc0X #hft
View ArticleToshiba and Informatica team up: In addition, influenced by the High...
Toshiba and Informatica team up: In addition, influenced by the High Frequency Trading (HFT) and Smart Orde... http://bit.ly/rcwc0X #hft
View ArticleResults of the Semi-Annual FX Turnover Survey - April 2011
In April 2011, 30 financial institutions active in the UK foreign exchange market participated in the fourteenth published semi-annual turnover survey for the Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee...
View ArticleBGC Partners Reports Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results
NEW YORK, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial...
View ArticleFannie Mae Redemption
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) will redeem the principal amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates indicated below...
View ArticleThe Westchester Bank Celebrating Third Anniversary with Robust Financial...
YONKERS, N.Y., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- What started out as a small office in a construction trailer on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers has grown to become one of the nation's fastest-growing...
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