Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
James Boughton and Colin Bradford published an article in the IMF-Magazine "Finance and Development" in December 2007 called "Global Governance: New Players, New Rules", in which they questioned the governance capability of the G8.
They define ideal global governance as such:
The ideal of global governance is a process of cooperative leadership ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The World Bank has a fairly comprehensive overview over different definitions of contagion and documents related to recent contagious events in the financial markets.
Some excerpts:
Broad Definition: Contagion is the cross-country transmission of shocks or the general cross-country spillover effects.
Restrictive Definition: Contagion is the transmission of shocks to other countries or ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Glyn Holton wrote an article about how to detect fraud in the reports by Hedge Funds: using Benford's Law.
Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Institution: International Securities Services Association
Abbreviation: ISSA
Type: Private
Founded: 1979 (The idea of an association of securities administrators from all over the world was first conceived in 1975 over a luncheon between C.F. Ahrens, then Head of Securities Administration at Citibank, New York, and B. Imseng, Head of Securities Administration at Union ...
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