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George Soros Puts the Bite on Markets: George Soros knows financial markets -- it's how he got to be a billionaire. So when he starts pointing out fundamental flaws in today's markets and calls for reform, he's doing it from within the machine. Soros has a new book out, "The New Paradigm for Financial...; Tags: Mortgages, Financial accounting, Investment, Michael Fitzgerald, George Soros; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Paulson Cites Progress in Calming Markets: By Glenn Somerville and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson cited encouraging signs of progress in calming financial markets, which he said made it possible to turn more attention to measures aimed at stimulating a slowing economy. "I'm not going...; Tags: Mortgages, Financial accounting, Treasury Secretary, mortgage, financial market, Washington, capital market, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial; News items 2008-04-24
Paulson Says Markets Emerging From Crunch: Report: NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said U.S. financial markets are emerging from the credit crunch that many economists believe has pushed the country to the brink of recession, according to The Wall Street Journal. "I do believe that the...; Tags: Financial accounting, brink, U.S. Department of Treasury, economist, secretary, mortgage-backed security, Balanced Scorecard, financial, New York, financial market, liquidity, Bush Administration, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-05-06
European Insurers Flag Tough Market in 2008: By Simon Challis LONDON (Reuters UK) - European insurers Munich Re, Old Mutual, Royal & Sun Alliance and Generali warned on Thursday that market conditions would be tough this year, due to rising competition and turbulent financial markets. Munich Re MUVGn, the world's second-largest reinsurer, ...; Tags: RSA Security Inc., Financial Market, Munich, Insurance Company, Generali, Insurance, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning; News items 2008-05-08
Pitfalls and Opportunities for the Conduct of Monetary Policy: Financial market developments over the last decade have greatly increased interest in the properties of high-frequency data. Stimulated by the search for greater arbitrage opportunities, which have been created or facilitated by innovations in computer technology, central banks are now able to monitor and, if they choose, react daily to...; Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, Bank of Canada, financial market, arbitrage, financial, bank, monitor, computer; White papers

Measuring Interest Rate Expectations in Canada: Financial market expectations regarding future changes in the target for the overnight rate of interest are an important source of information for the Bank of Canada. Financial markets are the mechanism through which the policy rate affects other financial variables, such as longer-term interest rates, the exchange rate, and other...; Tags: Financial accounting, Asset management, Bank of Canada, financial market, interest rate, asset, financial, asset price; White papers
Efficiency Wages, financial market Integration, And The Fiscal Multiplier: The authors have used a "New-open-economy macroeconomics" model featuring a labor-market friction in the form of efficiency wages to analyze the implication of financial market integration for the fiscal multiplier. The fiscal multiplier measures the accumulated effects of fiscal policy on output. Conventional wisdom based on the classic Mundell-Fleming model...; Tags: Financial accounting, financial market, friction, financial; White papers 2007-02-13
Calculating Return on Investment: Return on Investment is one of several profitability ratios, one of the four basic classes of financial ratios—the others being liquidity ratios, activity ratios and debt ratios. This, the Return on Investment, often called a company’s return on total assets, measures the overall profit made on an investment expressed as...; Tags: ROI/TCO, BNET Editorial, ROI, net profit, tax, asset, net income, equity, investor, investment, sales, liquidity, financial market, stock, dividend, interest rate, financial, e-business, advertisement, Internet; Articles 2007-06-26
Self-Regulation And Enforcement In financial markets: Evidence From Investor-Broker Disputes At The NASD: This paper investigates whether self-regulation in financial markets leads to greater industry bias and expertise in enforcement. Using hand-collected data on securities arbitration disputes from the National Association of Securities Dealers NASD, the author document that pro-industry arbitrators are selected more often to arbitration panels than pro-investor ones (selection on...; Tags: Financial accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASD, arbitration, financial market, financial, industry; White papers 2006-11-20
Financial Innovation for an Aging World: Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging. This paper explores how the demographic transition may influence financial markets and, in turn, how financial market innovation might help resolve concerns...; Tags: Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, financial market, financial; White papers 2006-08-01
Pricing Of Corporate And Portfolio Securities In Buyer-Supplier Networks: The paper investigates how buyer-supplier firm-specific relationships affect security prices. Starting from the empirical inconsistencies associated with some standard structural models we proposes a structural model of firm dependence in a variety connected network of firms based on cash flow transfers between the buyers and the suppliers. We prove that...; Tags: Financial accounting, financial market, financial, supplier, security, network, pricing strategy; White papers 2006-06-11
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth?: Exploring The Effects Of financial markets on Linkages: The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling Foreign Direct Investment FDI to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial accounting, Investment, University of Houston, foreign direct investment, linkage, financial market, financial; White papers 2006-06-01
The Consequences of Terrorism for financial markets: What Do We Know?: The objective of this article is to outline what one, as a researcher, knows and, more importantly, what one does not yet know about the consequences of terrorism for financial markets. The paper argues that a number of the efforts used to assess quantitatively the risk of terrorist attacks are...; Tags: Homeland security, Corporate insurance, Financial accounting, Business security, Ohio State University, financial market, terrorist attack, terrorism, financial, database; White papers 2006-05-07
Financial Development, Comparative Advantage And Industry Productivity: This paper incorporates firm heterogeneity endogenously generated by the imperfections in the financial markets in a 2 × 2 × 2 H-O framework and analyzes the effects of trade on the efficiency of entrepreneurial selection, industry productivity, and financial development. Agents differ in managerial talents, which affects the productivity of...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Financial accounting, Columbia University, entrepreneurial, financial market, financial, talent, industry, agent, manufacturing; White papers 2006-01-06
Fiscal Policy and financial markets: This paper introduces fiscal policy in a model of sovereign risk spreads ("Spreads"). Using panel data from emerging market countries, it is found that reductions in public expenditure are a more powerful tool for reducing spreads than increases in revenues. Specifically, cuts in current spending lower spreads by more than...; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial accounting, IMF, financial market, emerging market, revenue, financial, tool; White papers 2006-01-01
Demographic Change, Retirement Saving, and financial market Returns: Part 1: This paper is the first part of an analysis that aims to evaluate the likely importance of demographic trends on market returns in the United States. The paper focuses on the impact of future demographic trends on market returns that would arise from changing flows into and out of retirement...; Tags: Financial accounting, Harvard University, financial market, analysis, financial; White papers 2005-12-19
Individual Decision Making and Risk in Defined Contribution Plans: Defined contribution retirement plans expose retirement savers to financial market risks. The amount of risk and the link between financial market fluctuations and retirement income security depends on several choices that plan participants make. This paper describes the behavior of retirement savers who participate in the most common type of...; Tags: Financial accounting, University of Illinois, defined contribution plan, financial market, 401(k) plan, financial, risk, decision-making, security; White papers 2005-09-14
Ageing and Pension System Reform: Implications for financial markets and Economic Policies: The paper highlights that the changes under way in public and private pension schemes may increase significantly the influence of retirement saving and related capital flows in financial markets. Regulatory and supervisory developments should aim to influence and support the trend towards more rigorous risk management, greater transparency, and better...; Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, Strategy, Bank for International Settlements, financial market, pension fund, financial, risk management, accounting; White papers 2005-09-01
Real-Time Event Management in financial markets: Competition, regulatory changes and market volatility necessitate extremely sophisticated decision making tools for financial institutions to thrive in this complex marketplace. Further, the data volumes that are generated in real-time (e.g., market data) or need to be analyzed (reference data, historical data) have also increased significantly. Today's market needs the...; Tags: Financial accounting, Engineering, GemStone, financial company, algorithm, financial, financial market, analytics, decision-making; White papers 2005-09-01
Regulating Single Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans: A Modern Approach: Recent financial market and plan termination experiences have exposed the shortcomings of existing funding, disclosure, and premium rules governing private single-employer defined benefit pension plans in the United States. These rules were designed to provide predictability for plan sponsors and administrators, by insulating pension plans from the realities of economic...; Tags: Financial accounting, Benefits, University of Pennsylvania, financial market, pension plan, defined benefit pension plan, financial, insurance; White papers 2005-08-17