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Major Upgrade of FSMLabs TimeKeeper Increases Time Precision for High Frequency Trading: FSMLabs® has announce... http://bit.ly/jYL7IT
View ArticleVIDEO: How to save a failing airline
Garuda Indonesia has had 12 fatal accidents since 1950. The airline was banned from flying in Europe in 2007, and since then has been fighting to win back public and investor confidence.
View ArticleEurope insurers pass stress tests
A stress test of Europe's biggest insurance companies finds them to be "robust" despite exposure to Greek debt.
View ArticleVolkswagen takes over truckmaker
Volkswagen takes a majority stake in German truckmaker MAN as it seeks to extend its truck business beyond Swedish firm Scania.
View ArticleMortgage availability 'is rising'
The number of different mortgage products available in the UK market has risen to the highest level since November 2008, figures show.
View ArticleRegulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the...
With increasing frequency, generic drug manufacturers in the United States are able to challenge the monopoly status of patent-protected drugs even before their patents expire. The legal foundation for...
View ArticleWhat Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession? -- by...
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part...
View ArticleThe Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification -- by...
We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to identify a causal effect of social ties on regional economic growth. We show that households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a...
View ArticleImproving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized...
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During...
View ArticleDivide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa -- by...
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa....
View ArticleUsing Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination...
We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza...
View ArticleRegime Changes and Financial Markets -- by Andrew Ang, Allan Timmermann
Regime switching models can match the tendency of financial markets to often change their behavior abruptly and the phenomenon that the new behavior of financial variables often persists for several...
View ArticleBusiness Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions -- by...
This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on...
View ArticleClashing Theories of Unemployment -- by Robert E. Hall
General-equilibrium models for studying monetary influences in general and the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate in particular contain implicit theories of unemployment. In some cases, the...
View ArticleInnovation and Productivity -- by Bronwyn H. Hall
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of analysis using this model and the...
View ArticleEffective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention --...
The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the...
View ArticleHow Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement -- by Matthew Ronfeldt,...
Researchers and policymakers often assume that teacher turnover harms student achievement, but recent evidence calls into question this assumption. Using a unique identification strategy that employs...
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