Real options present a wide topic in investment litterature nowadays. However, despite bigadvances in the single asset investment pricing, the theory is miser of informations aboutproblems involving more than one asset. We show in this paper that using dynamic programming,one can find an...

This paper evaluates the predictive power of different information sets for the European Central Bank(ECB) interest rate setting behavior. We employ an ordered probit model, i.e. a limited dependent variableframework, to take into account the discreteness displayed by policy rate changes. The...

Several authors have documented a reduced variability ofoutput and inflation in the United States since the beginningof the 1980s.1 In fact, a comparison of the 1980:1-2001:2 periodwith the two preceding decades shows that the standarddeviation of quarterly output growth has fallen 30...

Thomas Huertas vom Institue for Law and Finance an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt wirft in dem Workingpaper "Containment and Cure:Some Perspectives on the Current Crisis" hauptsächlich zwei Fragen auf: Die Frage nach der Ursache der Weltwirtschaftskrise und wie man eine solche in Zukunft...