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The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in...

The misuse of prescription opioids has become a serious epidemic in the US. In response, states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid...

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Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession -- by Christopher L. House,...

We examine austerity in advanced economies since the Great Recession. Austerity shocks are reductions in government purchases that exceed reduced-form forecasts. Austerity shocks are statistically...

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Rethinking Detroit -- by Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg,...

We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately...

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The Macroeconomic Impact of Microeconomic Shocks: Beyond Hulten's Theorem --...

We provide a nonlinear characterization of the macroeconomic impact of microeconomic TFP shocks in terms of reduced-form non-parametric elasticities for efficient economies. We also provide the mapping...

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly -- by...

The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's...

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Shocks vs. Responsiveness: What Drives Time-Varying Dispersion? -- by David...

The dispersion of many economic variables is countercyclical. What drives this fact? Greater dispersion could arise from greater volatility of shocks or from agents responding more to shocks of...

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Revisions in Utilization-Adjusted TFP and Robust Identification of News...

This paper documents large revisions in a widely-used series of utilization-adjusted total factor productivity (TFP) by Fernald (2014) and shows that these revisions can materially affect empirical...

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Keynes and the Dollar in 1933 -- by Sebastian Edwards

On December 1933, John Maynard Keyes published an open letter to President Roosevelt, where he wrote: "The recent gyrations of the dollar have looked to me more like a gold standard on the booze than...

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CME Group Interest Rate Contracts Shatter Records On Feb. 22

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that its Fed Fund futures contracts reached an all-time daily high of 658,700 contracts traded on Feb. 22, 2017,...

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FXPA Elects New Officers, Board Members - New Executive Committee, Board Members

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) is pleased to announce the results of its elections, which took place last week, and resulted in a slate of new Board members, as well as four...

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BSX Launches Investor Education Programme

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) today announced the launch of its new Investor Education Programme ‘Own your share of Bermuda’.   read more...

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SEC Announces Agenda For March 9 Investor Advisory Committee Meeting -...

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda for the March 9 meeting of its Investor Advisory Committee.  The meeting will commence at 9:30 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room at SEC...

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Commission Statement Regarding Decision In Bartko v. SEC

In its January 17, 2017 decision in Bartko v. SEC (No. 14-1070), the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted in part a petition for review of a Commission order imposing sanctions...

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The Canadian Securities Administrators Launch A Regulatory Sandbox Initiative

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA or we) today launched a regulatory sandbox, an initiative that supports businesses seeking to offer innovative products, services and applications.read more...

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Robust Hedging of Options on a Leveraged Exchange Traded Fund....

A leveraged exchange traded fund (LETF) is an exchange traded fund that uses financial derivatives to amplify the price changes of a basket of goods. In this paper, we consider the robust hedging of...

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Readout From A Treasury Spokesperson Of Secretary Mnuchin’s Call With...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke by phone today with Canadian Minister of Finance Bill Morneau.   Secretary Mnuchin highlighted the deep, close relationship between the United States and...

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Readout From A Treasury Spokesperson Of Secretary Mnuchin’s Meeting...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met with Bank of England Governor and Financial Stability Board Chair Mark Carney.   Secretary Mnuchin underscored that he looked forward to working with...

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Finansinspektionen: Capital Requirements Of Swedish Banks As Of The Fourth...

Finansinspektionen publishes the capital requirements of the ten largest Swedish banks and credit institutions as of the end of the fourth quarter 2016.read more...

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Investing For Dummies, 8th Edition

In the world of investing, slow and steady wins the race. With this mantra in mind, trusted author and finance guru Eric Tyson is back with the latest edition of the #1 bestselling book, Investing For...

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A decades-old method, the “bootstrap” is enabling discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories https://t.co/MH6JQ13EtP — moneyscience…

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