Human capital is a key economic factor in both macro- and microeconomics, and, at least for most people, by far their largest asset. We use the Substantial Gain-Loss-Ratio to calculate Good Deal bounds for securitizations of individual labour income one year ahead. Our procedure is applied to US...

This paper challenges the existing literature examining the impact of the introduction of index futures trading on the volatility of its underlying. To overcome econometric shortcomings of previously published work using the dummy variable approach, we employ a Markov-switching-GARCH technique....

This paper examines whether the introduction of Chinese stock index futures had an impact on the volatility of the underlying spot market. To this end, we estimate several Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models and compare our findings for mainland China with...