Archives for: October 2012
10/30/12
07:49:12 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 878 words 
Categories: Corporate Governance, Investment, Banks/Investment Banks, Industrial Firms, Regulation
Today, UBS announced a massive downsizing of its investment bank. Other banks are in the same process of will follow. This is a logical consequence after various of the investment banks had reached a "bubble stage" prior to the financial crisis. Excesses… more »
10/27/12
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10/26/12
11:48:24 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 11 words
Categories: Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
Fascinating! You can feel the "animal spirit".
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Keywords: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship more »
07:09:18 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 12 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
The great economist(in 1980ies) about inflation and stimulus.Keywords: Inflation, Quantity of Money more »
Find here a presentation by a professor of the University of St. Gall about causes and consequences (as related to institutional investing) of financial repression:Institutionelle Anlagen unter veränderterfinanzieller Repression und danach, Prof. D… more »
10/25/12
09:24:56 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 91 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Reinhart and Rogoff, many times referred to on this platform, show in their latest article on Voxeu.org that the current recovery is not slower as in previous financial crises. The de-leveraging process is at the best in a beginning stage. We will se… more »
05:45:18 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 229 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Econbrowser: Guest Contribution: How “Different” is the Recovery from the Financial Crisis? By David Papell and Ruxandra Prodan, Oct. 23, 2012The slow recovery from the financial crisis and recession of 2007 – 2009 has become a centerpiece of the Pre… more »
12:25:03 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 92 words
Categories: Deals, Investment Strategy, Market Characteristics
CNN Money: The next generation of pre-IPO financing? October 23, 2012Buyout firms have a new strategy for reducing portfolio company debt. FORTUNE -- I recently wrote about private equity's golden hangover, or the glut of large-cap companies that… more »
10/24/12
We could read today in various newspapers that the IMF sees progress in the structural reforms in Southern European countries. The re-balancing of the wage levels to non-distorted conditions is a key process for medium term recovery. Following graph is a… more »
Keywords: Private Equity, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney more »
Keywords: Economic Development, Growth, Trust more »
Costas Azariadis and Leo Kaas, Self-Fulfilling Credit Cycles, Working Paper 2012-047A, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2012
Abstract:
"This paper argues that self-fulfilling beliefs in credit conditions can generate endoge- nously persistent bus… more »
10/22/12
Wall Street Investing: Battle Human Nature & Be Zenlike from The Big Picture on FORA.tvrong> Behavioral Economics, Mental Accounting, Home Bias more »
10/21/12
09:41:41 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 9 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Keywords: Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, Housing Market, Housing Prices more »
10/20/12
10:55:07 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 8 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Source: FT Alphaville
Keywords: Rental Housing, Interest Rates more »
10:29:02 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 115 words
Categories: Deals, Market Characteristics
WSJ: Debt Fuels a Dividend Boom; Firms Collect Payouts, and Investors Get Yield; 'Reminiscent of the Bubble Era', Oct. 18, 2012Private-equity firms are adding debt to the companies they own in order to fund payouts to themselves, a controversial prac… more »
10/19/12
Source: Merk Funds more »
10/18/12
Keywords:d Creativity, Innovation, Connected Mind more »
Ippei Fujiwara, Hibiki Ichiue, Yoshiyuki Nakazono, Yosuke Shigemi, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2012
Abstract:
"We test whether professional forecasters forecast rationally or behaviora… more »
10/17/12
Fascinating interview. Creating value does not necessarily mean to take values out of companies but to create values in order to develop firms in the long-term. An much more about the subject..Keywords: Value Creation, Fast Money more »
10/16/12
Ronald S. Burt, private games are too dangerous, 1999
Keywords: Prisoner Dilemma, Trust, Organization more »
"By historical standards, the current recovery from the recession that began in 2007 has been disappointing. As John Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Department of Economics argues in Part 1 of this discussion on the economy, GD… more »
10/15/12
Good new paper by Buchheit, Gulati, exporing 5 options for the Eurozone:
The 5 Options:
Option 1: Jolly the markets
Option 2: Massage the yields
Option 3: Full bailout
Option 4: Reprofiling
Option 5: Full (Greek-style) restructuring
Buch… more »
04:43:50 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 4 words
Categories: Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Keywords: Decision Making, Entrepreneurship more »
Keywords: Money, Inflation more »
10/14/12
10:50:19 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 267 words
Categories: Economics Europe, Economics Global
"Taken at face value, the results suggest that the capacity to create additional tax revenue does not appear to be the first binding constraint on using tax increases for fiscal consolidation, because not many countries are likely to be located on the do… more »
10/13/12
Roy F. Baumeister, Todd F. Heatherton, Dianne M. Tice, When Ego Threats Lead to Self-Regulation Failure:Negative Consequences of High Self-Esteem, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology1993, Vol. 64, No. 1,141-156The tendency for people wit… more »
10/11/12
06:46:04 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 186 words
Categories: Deals, Valuation, Statistics, Performance Measurement, Various Market Info, Asia
Fang, Lily H., Ivashina, Victoria and Lerner, Josh, The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity (October 9, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2159229Abstract: "One of the important issues i… more »
10/09/12
David K. Levine, Salvatore Modica, Federico Weinschelbaum, Felipe Zurita, Evolving to the Impatience Trap: The Example of the Farmer-Sheriff Game, Working Paper 2012-033A, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2012
Abstract:
"The literature on the evo… more »
10/04/12
Kaplanski, Guy and Levy, Haim, Investment Choices with Envy and Altruism (September 19, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2148874Abstract: "Our experiment reveals that envy and altruism strongly affect the utility of investm… more »
10/02/12
06:44:35 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 53 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe, Economics Global
Interview with influential Financial Thought Leader and financial historian. James Grant will discuss why the Federal Reserve’s policies of zero interest rates and massive purchases of U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds are dangerous to the economy… more »
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