Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For January 26th 2018
A total turnover of 7.157 billion shares worth N42.545 billion in 39,037 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 5.011 billion shares valued at...
View ArticleChinese Finance Association Cautions on Overseas ICOs and Crypto Trading
China's National Internet Finance Association, a self-regulatory group, has warned against participating in overseas ICOs and cryptocurrency trading.
View ArticleBrisbane Airport to Launch In-Terminal Cryptocurrency Payments
Australia's Brisbane Airport is to roll out digital currency payments within the terminal shopping area.
View ArticleCrypto Exchange Coincheck Abruptly Halts Withdrawals
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Bitcoin's price range continues to narrow, but a big move on either side could happen soon, the technical charts suggest.
View ArticleRussian Finance Ministry Proposes Draft Law on ICO Regulation
Russia's Finance Ministry has introduced a draft federal law on the regulation of digital assets and initial coin offerings.
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View ArticleCoincheck Confirms Crypto Hack Loss Larger than Mt Gox
Japanese exchange Coincheck has confirmed that about $533 million-worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen from its digital wallets.
View ArticleVitalik: First Part of Ethereum's Sharding Roadmap Is Nearly Done
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View ArticleDaily: $530 Million USD HACKED from Japanese ExchangeDaily: $530 Million USD...
News is coming out of Japan that $520 Million USD worth of the cryptocurrency NEM was stolen from the exchange Coincheck. There were also large movements of Ripple out of the exchange but it seems...
View ArticleWhy has Idiosyncratic Risk been Historically Low in Recent Years? -- by...
Since 1965, average idiosyncratic risk (IR) has never been lower than in recent years. In contrast to the high IR in the late 1990s that has drawn considerable attention in the literature, average...
View ArticleTrade Creditors' Information Advantage -- by Victoria Ivashina, Benjamin Iverson
Using information on the sales of debt claims for 132 U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, we show that large trade creditors' decisions to sell receivables of a distressed company in bankruptcy are...
View ArticleMoral Values and Voting: Trump and Beyond -- by Benjamin Enke
This paper studies the supply of and demand for moral values in recent U.S. presidential elections. The hypothesis is that people exhibit heterogeneity in their adherence to "individualizing" relative...
View ArticleTargeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care -- by...
Many of the most important government programs make transfers in kind as opposed to in cash. Making transfers in kind has the obvious cost that recipients would often prefer cost-equivalent cash...
View ArticleEclipse of the Public Corporation or Eclipse of the Public Markets? -- by...
Since reaching a peak in 1997, the number of listed firms in the U.S. has fallen in every year but one. During this same period, public firms have been net purchasers of $3.6 trillion of equity (in...
View ArticleAspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments -- by Sebastian...
We use a multi-country field experiment to test the effect of a slum-housing intervention on the housing aspirations of non-beneficiary neighbors. Initially after treatment, nontreated households'...
View ArticleHousehold Time Use Among Older Couples: Evidence and Implications for Labor...
Using the Consumption Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) module in the HRS we document how time allocations change for individuals within a household when one or more members transitions from full time work...
View ArticleStock Market Returns and Consumption -- by Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani,...
This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We exploit households'...
View ArticlePricing Assets in a Perpetual Youth Model -- by Roger Farmer
This paper constructs a general equilibrium model where asset price fluctuations are caused by random shocks to beliefs about the future price level that reallocate consumption across generations. In...
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