Systemically Important Financial Institutions & A. Structural View of U.S. Bank Holding Companies

On Thursday Natalya Thakur presented on "Systemically Important Financial Institutions and Failure Resolution" and Lauryn Isford presented on "A. Structural View of U.S. Bank Holding Companies". For more information on these topics read the following: 

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42150.pdf

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/12v18n2/1207avra.pdf

A Fractal View of Risk in Financial Markets

Helin Gao will present on Tuesday "A Fractal View of Risk in Financial Markets".
For more information on the topic read the following :
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=multifractals-explain-wall-street&page=2

The Controlled Failure of Central Clearing Parties

On Thursday, Prof. Duffie will be presenting on "The Controlled Failure of Central Clearing Parties".

Is the Bitcoin the Next Big Currency ?

Olivia Moore will present today "Is the Bitcoin the Next Big Currency ?",, 

Private equity Performance : What do we know?

Thursday Oct 10th, Justine Moore will talk about  Private equity Performance : What do we know?

Volatility Prediction, Crowdsourcing and the Event Horizon

"Data standards, high-performance storage and big data analytics are beginning to enable firms to tap social media and other sources of sentiment data to predict market moves, monitor risk and capture alpha."

Read more on the following :
Volatility Prediction, Crowdsourcing and the Event Horizon

Japanese Bussble Economy

Henry Yuhao will be presenting on Japanese Bubble Economy on Tuesday Oct 7th.
To read more on the topic:

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/bubble.htm

http://akihabaranews.com/2013/08/14/article-en/japanese-economics-sun-never-set-lost-decades-are-myth-and-everything-fine