Was The First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement...
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and...
View ArticleSchool Lunch Quality and Academic Performance -- by Michael L. Anderson,...
Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity...
View ArticleThe Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production -- by Ellen R....
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are...
View ArticleFinancial Frictions and Employment during the Great Depression -- by Efraim...
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of...
View ArticleDoes Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts...
Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged...
View ArticleEconomic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities --...
The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or "repugnant". Not only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is...
View ArticleAre Larger Banks Valued More Highly? -- by Bernadette A. Minton, Rene M....
We investigate whether the value of large banks, defined as banks with assets in excess of the Dodd-Frank threshold for enhanced supervision, increases with the size of their assets using Tobin's q and...
View ArticleImpulsive Consumption and Financial Wellbeing: Evidence from an Increase in...
Increased availability of temptation goods might harm individuals if they have time-inconsistent preferences and consume more in the present than planned before. We study this idea by examining the...
View ArticleIsrael's Immigration Story: Globalization Lessons -- by Assaf Razin
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has received migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) at the rate of 17 percent of...
View ArticleInstrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking The Effect of Trade...
It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a final outcome. Using an Instrumental Variable (IV) identifies the...
View ArticleThe Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in...
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was...
View ArticleWhy Being Wrong can be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the...
Across human societies, one sees many examples of deeply rooted and widely-held beliefs that are almost certainly untrue. Examples include beliefs about witchcraft, magic, ordeals, and superstitions....
View ArticleFX Market Metrics: New Findings Based on CLS Bank Settlement Data -- by Joel...
Using a new and unique data set of foreign currency settlement instructions provided by CLS Bank, we investigate activity and liquidity in the foreign exchange market. In the major currency pairs, CLS...
View ArticleHow a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds
How a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds https://t.co/yCogEud2vU http://pic.twitter.com/ianZ2fYZEI â Hedge Fund Focus (@hedgefundfocus) March 6,â¦
View ArticleA former FBI informant reflects on her involvement with the Insider Trading...
A former FBI informant reflects on her involvement with the Insider Trading Industry https://t.co/QebWcE7Sbl http://pic.twitter.com/TwLpYMS5hm â Hedge Fundâ¦
View ArticleTRADEcho To Provide Trade Publication For SIX Swiss Exchange
SIX Swiss Exchange has approved the London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service as a Trade Data Monitor (TDM) for the SIX Swiss Exchange.read more...
View ArticleMoscow Exchange: Revised Maximum Quantity Of Securities Eligible As...
Due to NCC Bank decision maximum quantity of securities eligible as collateral in Derivatives Market will be changed starting from March 13, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.:read more...
View ArticleDGCX Expands Global Presence With Trading Technologies
The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) today announced that Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, has become an...
View Articlemai-Listed Firms Report THB 3.9 Bln Net Profits In 2016
Companies listed on Market for Alternative Investment (mai), reported sales of THB 131.14 billion (approx. USD 3.75 billion) in 2016, a 5.35 percent increase from a year earlier, while their combined...
View ArticleInterTraderâs No Dealing Desk FX, CFD And Spread Betting Liquidity Is...
PFSOFT, the global fintech developer of multi-asset brokerage and trading solutions, has recently integrated its Protrader multi-asset brokerage solution with InterTrader Ltd.read more...
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