Chinese hedge fund Springs Cap expands to HK in growth push http://bit.ly/q6MAG1
Chinese hedge fund Springs Cap expands to HK in growth push http://bit.ly/q6MAG1
View ArticleFund manager AQR seeks $250mn for reinsurance team #catbond #tradingrisk...
Fund manager AQR seeks $250mn for reinsurance team #catbond #tradingrisk http://t.co/Upc6hDl
View ArticleJudge Blocks Dodgers From Tapping Hedge-Fund Loan (HedgeCo)...
Judge Blocks Dodgers From Tapping Hedge-Fund Loan (HedgeCo) http://bit.ly/ri7Mu6 #Dodgers
View ArticleVIDEO: Domino's report sharp rise in profits
Domino's Pizza has reported a sharp rise in first-half profits in the first half of the year despite the tough economic climate.
View ArticleAUDIO: Benefits of 'family flexibility'
Anne Longfield, chief executive of the charity 4Children, examines calls to make the workplace more family friendly.
View ArticlePhotobox merges with Moonpig.com
Digital photo service Photobox announces that it is merging with the personalised greetings card company Moonpig.com.
View ArticleRT Pc-axis with R:...
RT Pc-axis with R: http://procomun.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/pc-axis-with-r-pxr/ #rstats RT @jjgibaja http://bit.ly/qb9HWG
View ArticleUwe Ligges, new member of R core:...
Uwe Ligges, new member of R core: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-July/061557.html #rstats
View Articlemoneyscience: Aaron Swartz Indictment - Theft of 5 million scholarly articles...
moneyscience: Aaron Swartz Indictment - Theft of 5 million scholarly articles - http://bit.ly/p7GuOX
View ArticleHuman 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 ArticleCross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs....
This paper examines the role of regulation and competition in generic markets. Generics offer large potential savings to payers and consumers of pharmaceuticals. Whether the potential savings are...
View Articlemoneyscience: arXiv: Quantization of long memory processes....
moneyscience: arXiv: Quantization of long memory processes. (arXiv:1107.4476v1 [q-fin.ST]) http://bit.ly/noUxx3
View ArticleMetals USA Reports Second Quarter 2011 Sales Growth of 51% on 33% Volume Growth
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Metals USA Holdings Corp. (NYSE: MUSA) today reported its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011. Net sales for the second quarter...
View ArticleFinancial Transaction Services of WPA Achieves 'Approved Vendor' Designation...
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Transaction Services of Western PA (FTSWPA), electronic transaction processing service provider for BtoB and BtoG, announced it has achieved a...
View ArticleURDANG Recommends Investors Consider Holding Both REITS and Private Real Estate
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. and LONDON, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Institutional real estate investors should consider including both real estate investment trusts (REITS) and private real estate in their...
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