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MoneyScience Twitter Review - February 2010

Tuesday Feb 02, 17:08PM

The Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster http://bit.ly/ckQa5r
Former RBS chief Robertson denies Enron fraud - http://bit.ly/9RiRaR
2nd Annual Algorithmic Trading Conference - Dynamic Portfolios, Optimal Execution, and Risk - http://bit.ly/c6a4OB
Report: An Anatomy of Economic Equality in the UK (pdf) http://bit.ly/byweH0
According to this comment: There are plenty of mediocre bankers at Golden Sacks - http://bit.ly/b2rmLE
Lobbying and the financial crisis - http://bit.ly/dhVwhu
Interesting. @felixsalmon takes a closer look at the Volcker rule and the potential impact on traders' career paths - http://bit.ly/6cBSHz
Introducing the new SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics - http://bit.ly/4O4nv1
Book Review: For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen, by Leo Melamed - http://bit.ly/5NXKlN
RT @risk_mgmt - Risk Analysis, The Cooke Method and Climate Change - http://bit.ly/683VCB
Millionaire match-making sites seem custom-made for scamsters. Just ask the site owners themselves. http://bit.ly/4qbGev
Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income - http://bit.ly/4u3Auq
Too interconnected to fail = too big to fail: What is in a leverage ratio? http://bit.ly/5alASO
RT @BusinessSchools - Professor Michael Dempster on Quantitative Finance and the Credit Crisis - http://bit.ly/7cp77D
@SSRN - In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking - http://bit.ly/7ditTe
Experimental evidence for the interplay between individual wealth and transaction network - http://bit.ly/5ik23a
WSJ article adapted from new book: The Quants: Formula for a Meltdown - http://bit.ly/6k8HQc
Is Obama trying to cut Goldman down to size? http://bit.ly/7QSl9A
RT @psyfitec - Basel, Faulty? http://bit.ly/5qfKkV
Jamie Dimon Says They Didn't Model Massive House Price Collapse - http://bit.ly/8jJ7Qe
Capacity Constraints, Profit Margins and Stock Returns - http://bit.ly/4QK0h
Chaos Models in Economics - http://bit.ly/8Z2GFA
John Hull Supports Tranche Retention, Bonus Deferral - http://bit.ly/50sgpi
Cadbury agrees Kraft takeover bid - http://bit.ly/8foxgB
Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis with Jon Gregory, March 8 - 9, 2010 - London, UK. http://bit.ly/ILOBP
Designing a systemic risk warning system - http://bit.ly/6ofbRc
Classic: Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building Of World's Largest Indoor Mountain Range - http://bit.ly/4BQBH6
JP Morgan's 24,654 investment bankers will get an average of $379,000 (£233,350) bonus each - http://bit.ly/5ytXNL
Video: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on C-SPAN - http://bit.ly/8JGIRk
The BBC has uncovered a loophole in French banking law that allowed a fraud of 2m euros (£1.8m) to be carried out. http://bit.ly/8Xtiqc
Link your blog to MoneyScience! http://bit.ly/70Lady
Infographic - World Progress Report - http://bit.ly/8SIcQs
The Journal of Portfolio Management announces the winners of the 11th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards http://bit.ly/4Y3jGa
Pricing Credit Derivatives and the Credit Crisis with Jon Gregory - February 22 - 23, London, UK. http://bit.ly/8kvzYZ
@SimoleonSense - Miguel Barbosa Interviews Justin Fox: The Myth Of The Rational Market http://bit.ly/5130Mm
RT @Risk_Mgmt - Much of Haiti damage not insured according to catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions - http://bit.ly/8yBS2d
Credit Suisse has won the award of Bank of the Year from International Financing Review (IFR). http://bit.ly/5aURzz
The growing opportunities for techies in wealth managemen - http://bit.ly/60lYAx
RT @MSLuxury - Art as an Asset Class - Assorted articles - http://bit.ly/8CHWwn
RT @BusinessSchools - How to Publish in Top Journals - http://bit.ly/8sum8b
RT @SimoleonSense - William Poundstone: Priceless, How Much Is Enough? http://bit.ly/6KunSa
100,000+ dead in Haiti, pos. the worst disaster in Western Hemisphere History - updates from Risk Management Monitor http://bit.ly/7qjvkQ
Wall Street's leading bankers accept some activities were 'improper' in testimony to commission. http://bit.ly/7Kq9s9
BBC: City Diaries http://bit.ly/4HMsRr
You can learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. http://bit.ly/4vGhBc
Why do people 'play the longshot' and buy insurance? It's in our genes - http://bit.ly/4nCQwX
Bonus Blood-Letting May Be Banks’ Better Option: David Reilly - http://bit.ly/6Uqhb7
Professor Rama Cont's website. http://bit.ly/8BhJ4p
Observations from panel discussion “Steering Through the Tailspin; the Future of Quantitative Finance.” http://bit.ly/7zxPae
Ambulance economics and the global crisis: A new CEPR Policy Insight - http://bit.ly/51qDOA
New! The Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance ed. Rama Cont, written by over 400 authors. http://bit.ly/8IxEPx
Exchange-traded market may reach $1.4 trillion - http://bit.ly/5GZmEn
RT @psyfitec - The Psychology of Dividends - http://bit.ly/7kvnJZ
Viral Acharya and Julian Franks on Regulation after the Crash - http://bit.ly/8xkFjm
QFINANCE Executive Briefing - January 2010 - http://bit.ly/5HZ5Kk
London’s Investment Banks Double Pay to Lure Back City Talent - http://bit.ly/6mLEPf
The mortgage fraud industry is booming - http://bit.ly/6witTM
John Crompton, head of market investments at UKFI, to leave Treasury agency & return to private sector. http://bit.ly/7EsRq2
Free Seminar - GPU-Accelerated Derivative Pricing and Risk Models - Jan 20, Frankfurt, Germany http://bit.ly/87Qhmg
Ex-Evolution analyst tipped off trader friend who made £85,500 on spread bets. http://bit.ly/8ywf7H
Barack Obama considers levy on banks to close America's widening deficit - http://bit.ly/4Vn6TY
Searched Twitter for Islamic Finance: http://tinyurl.com/yfzwxlf
Google's Eric Schmidt on why bankers deserve little sympathy and Obama does - http://bit.ly/8dr7DD
The burden of Iceland's debts on its taxpayers could only be a fraction of previous estimates... http://bit.ly/6adDko
UK Financial regulator widens net to penalise all City workers picking up seven-figure sums http://bit.ly/4WidgY
Does the trek from math and physics to finance work? Why and how does it work? http://bit.ly/7NqHOw
RT @HedgeFundFocus - A Fund manager's reflections on life, the universe and the meaning of money - http://bit.ly/8XEf1h
Superpowerful - Super-Computers. http://bit.ly/61hQCs
Lisa Carnoy - The $19 Billion Woman - http://bit.ly/4FAJ2Q
RT @SimoleonSense - Behaviorally Informed Financial Services Regulation - http://bit.ly/5l6hKg
Discovering Artificial Economics - How Agents Learn and Economies Evolve http://bit.ly/6UCNFi
Throughout history, the ultrawealthy have hired trusted advisers to guide them. http://bit.ly/6i2Xb2
RT @Risk_Mgmt - In derivatives "almost all the available experts work for one of the major broker-dealers" - http://bit.ly/8GnYw5
The Kirk Report : A Decade In Review - http://bit.ly/7pSDIt
RT @knowledgwharton - Beyond Dubai: What's Ahead for the Middle East This Year? http://bit.ly/8Aluhs
Global Interdependence: Are the U.S and Other Markets 'Sowing the Seeds' for the Next Crisis? http://bit.ly/5r2z4L
Iceland government assures UK it is committed to meeting its obligations: http://bit.ly/6TQx5Z
Would anyone like to nominate @moneyscience for a 'Shorty Award'? http://bit.ly/6QCSYh
Hedge Fund Focus 06-01-10 - General News, People and Funds, Crime and Law, Launches and Liquidations. http://bit.ly/82KDhP
Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks - http://bit.ly/7ufSQz
Iceland's president has refused to sign a controversial bill to repay $5bn (£3.1bn) to the UK and the Netherlands. http://bit.ly/6z7LZR
RT @psyfitec - Money Can't Buy Happiness - http://bit.ly/8fLlum
@SimoleonSense - Robert Shiller: Why We’ll Always Have More Money Than Sense http://bit.ly/85ybcl
Five things to keep you awake this year- http://bit.ly/7bZS9k
UBS ‘whistleblower’ loses jail-term battle - http://bit.ly/8ftKSk
Has the economic downturn left F1 underpowered? http://bit.ly/7j58CJ
2000-2009 - The decade of electronic trading - http://bit.ly/8Yn3E4
Dark pools brace for greater scrutiny in 2010 - http://bit.ly/6r9akd
MoneyScience Twitter Review - All the Tweets from December 2009. http://bit.ly/5MKFLM
3 ways to find consulting work - http://bit.ly/8KMRxg
Didier Sornette et al: Diagnosis and Prediction of Tipping Points in Financial Markets: Crashes and Rebounds - http://bit.ly/7FlKC8
The problem with "scope insensitivity" - http://bit.ly/7Dj2S0
Why former City high-flyers start the new year by planning to divorce - http://bit.ly/60zz11
Mathematical Model Predicts Insurgent Attacks - http://bit.ly/6maQko
@TimHarford - BBC Radio: Freakonomics meets More or Less and The Undercover Economist. http://bit.ly/6hChKp
Academic economists gather in Atlanta this weekend for their annual meetings - http://bit.ly/56y9nk
Can Microfinance Make It in America? - TIME http://bit.ly/51eRlO