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Geek meets chic: Four actions to jump-start advanced analytics in apparel ( McKinsey ). Three common machine learning misconceptions ( Tableau ). Data mining for miners: Using analytics for short-term price movement forecasting ( McKinsey ). Have We Hit Peak Facebook? ( The Big Picture ). How digital platforms reduce moral hazard: Uber vs Taxis. Most of us have taken a taxi that increased the fare by taking the long route. The column compares matched pairs of taxi and Uber journeys in New York City to investigate how often drivers took unnecessary detours. Uber drivers were less likely to do this, suggesting that Uber's innovations in fare structure and digital feedback have reduced moral hazard ( VOX ).

Publicaciones: Publishing and promotion in economics: The tyranny of the Top Five. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the ‘Top Five’ economics journals have a strong influence on tenure and promotion decisions, but actual evidence on their influence is sparse. This column uses data on employment and publication histories for tenure-track faculty hired by the top US economics departments between 1996 and 2010 to show that the impact of the Top Five on tenure decisions dwarfs that of non-Top Five journals. A survey of US economics department faculties confirms the Top Five’s outsized influence ( VOX ). Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers in economics. Economics places a strong emphasis on publishing in a narrow set of top-tier journals. However, the reputation of a journal does not necessarily go hand in hand with citation performance. This column describes how citation patterns vary greatly across tiers, affecting both the total citations articles receive a...

La Figura del día de hoy, corresponde a países con cierto grado de riesgo de crédito (en azul). Sin embargo, la figura proviene de dos artículos de Bloomberg sobre la expansión de China y su paso por países con riesgo de crédito: ¿El final del camino? Un plan maestro para proyectar el poder, la influencia y el comercio chinos en gran parte del mundo podría socavar los tres . Una nueva dirección para el cinturón y la carretera de China. El programa de desarrollo de infraestructura masiva necesita una corrección de rumbo .

La recuperación en América Latina y el Caribe ha perdido ímpetu ( Blog Diálogo a Fondo ). Estas son las medidas económicas que quiere aplicar Bolsonaro en Brasil ( El Blog Salmón ). El coste económico del déficit de calidad institucional y la corrupción en España ( Nada es Gratis ). Análisis España: El crédito oficial durante las crisis ( Nada es Gratis ). Para la mayoría, un riesgo de la empresa que sigue quemando el efectivo, para otros una apuesta arriesgada por hacerse con el mercado:  Netflix. Algo no anda nada bien con sus resultados ( GurusBlog ). Cambio climático:   Ahora o Nunca ( Nada es Gratis ). Finalmente, los once mejores cursos online de economía y finanzas de 2018 ( El Blog Salmón ).

En la visualización del día de hoy, se muestran los 20 principales gestores de fondos gestionan actualmente más del 40 por ciento de toda la riqueza de la gestión activa.

Fifteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework.   This updated progress report provides a high-level view of Basel Committee members' progress in adopting Basel III standards as of end-September 2018 . An evolving financial system: Don’t leave it too late, simulate.   Thanks to transformative post-crisis reforms, the financial system is safer and simpler than it was a decade ago. But the structure of the system continues to evolve, partly in reaction to those reforms. Economies are now more reliant on market-based finance. This column argues that to deliver the macroprudential objective of a system that is able to serve households and businesses in bad times as well as good, policymakers must run stress simulations on systemic markets as well as systemic banks, and take pre-emptive corrective action where necessary . INEXDA - the Granular Data Network.   The financial crisis of 2007-08 has highlighted the need for using granular data on ...

Regulating cryptocurrencies: Assessing market reactions. Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation. This column argues that in fact their valuations, transaction volumes, and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. Because they rely on regulated financial institutions to operate and markets are (still) segmented across jurisdictions, cryptocurrencies are within the reach of national regulation . Cryptocurrencies: Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). This is the third installment in the Cryptocurrencies series. It explores the structure, investment potential, and risks associated with initial coin offerings (ICOs). Previous editions covered the rise of decentralized money and the inner workings of blockchain technology . Some simple Bitcoin economics. The Bank for International Settlements has attributed the volatility of the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to the lack of a crypto central bank. This ...