Speech of James McDonald, Director of the Division of Enforcement Commodity...
Speech of James McDonald, Director of the Division of Enforcement Commodity Futures Trading Commission Regarding Perspectives on Enforcement: Self-Reporting and Cooperation at the CFTC NYU Program on...
View ArticleRonaldo Is Hawking One of the World’s Riskiest Derivatives
Ronaldo Is Hawking One of the World’s Riskiest Derivatives https://t.co/ySCdTvGsbq — moneyscience (@moneyscience) September 29, 2017
View ArticleCFTC Charges California Residents Hasan Sarwar a/k/a Alexander Sarwar, and...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on September 28, 2017, filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Defendants Hasan Sarwar...
View ArticleCFTC Orders Logista Advisors LLC to Pay $250,000 for Supervision Failures...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Logista Advisors LLC, a crude-oil-trading firm based in Houston, Texas.
View ArticleThe Emergence of the Capital Markets Cloud
Bill Dwyer, VP of Corporate and Business Development, Numerixread more...
View ArticleNorwegian Airlines: Are They Built to Last?
Travelers in my area have been enjoying incredibly low fare trips to Europe on Norwegian Airlines. Right now, you can book a one-way flight for next week from Providence, Rhode Island to Shannon,...
View ArticleCulture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern...
A collection of case studies from nonwestern countries that offers an analysis of the significant role culture plays in crisis communicationread more...
View ArticleThe JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2016
Produced in association with the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the Annual Review covers the major developments in the European Union in the past year.read more...
View ArticleAgile Project Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Agile project management is a fast and flexible approach to managing all projects, not just software development. By learning the principles and techniques in this book, you'll be able to create a...
View ArticleOut-there Scenarios I: ISIS is Funded by a Major Asset Management Firm
I break risk management into three levels, Versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.Risk Management 1.0 is the standard risk management of VaR and the like, where history is used as a guide, and thus where things...
View ArticleThe Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating....
We used to marry people to which we were somehow connected to: friends of friends, schoolmates, neighbours. Since we were more connected to people similar to us, we were likely to marry someone from...
View ArticleDistributions of Centrality on Networks. (arXiv:1709.10402v1 [cs.SI])
In many social and economic networks, agents' outcomes depend substantially on the centrality of their network position. Our current understanding of network centrality is largely restricted to...
View ArticleObstacle problems for nonlocal operators. (arXiv:1709.10384v1 [math.AP])
We prove existence, uniqueness, and regularity of viscosity solutions to the stationary and evolution obstacle problems defined by a class of nonlocal operators that are not stable-like and may have...
View ArticleClassification of the Bounds on the Probability of Ruin for L{\'e}vy...
In this note, we study the ultimate ruin probabilities of a real-valued L{\'e}vy process X with light-tailed negative jumps. It is well-known that, for such L{\'e}vy processes, the probability of ruin...
View ArticleA Structural Model for Fluctuations in Financial Markets. (arXiv:1709.10277v1...
In this paper we provide a comprehensive analysis of a structural model for the dynamics of prices of assets traded in a market originally proposed in [1]. The model takes the form of an interacting...
View ArticleExecutive stock option exercise with full and partial information on a drift...
We analyse the valuation and exercise of an American executive call option written on a stock whose drift parameter falls to a lower value at a change point given by an exponential random time,...
View ArticlePareto Efficient Taxation and Expenditures: Pre- and Re-distribution -- by...
This paper shows that there is a presumption that Pareto efficient taxation entails a positive tax on capital. When tax and expenditure policies can affect the market distribution of income, those...
View ArticleParalyzed by Panic: Measuring the Effect of School Closures during the 1916...
We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test whether short-term school closures result in reduced educational attainment as an adult. With over 23,000 cases...
View ArticleBusy Directors: Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies -- by...
We derive conditions for when having a "busy" director on the board is harmful to shareholders and when it is beneficial. Our model allows directors to condition their monitoring choices on their...
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