A stochastic model is developed to explain how the early unwinding propensity of market participants in financial futures markets can lead to a strong concentration of the trading volume on the nearby contract. In this model the position closing behavior of the market participants is captured by...

Prologue -- Opening Address -- Risk and Saving -- I: Information, Risk Aversion, and Capital Market Theory -- The Impacts of Variance Reducing Strategies in Dyopolistic Capital Markets -- Notes on Costless Financial Signalling -- Variable Information and Capital Market Equilibria -- Diffusion...

This book deals with a wide range of topics in agency theory. Agency theory focuses on information and on incentives, with basic approaches from microeconomics and risk analysis. Among the broad variety of applications are the different organizational patterns of cooperation in institutions and...

Prologue -- 1. Equilibrium versus Market Imperfections -- 2. Questions and Answers -- The Hybrid Model and Related Approaches to Capital Market Equilibria -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Portfolio Models Based on Different Sets of Parameters -- 3. Rationale of the Hybrid Model -- 4. Applications of the...

Statistische Methoden haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten kontinuierlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Entsprechend wichtig sind profunde Kenntnisse der Prämissen, auf denen solche Verfahren beruhen, sowie die Fähigkeit, sich mit den Ergebnissen und der Interpretation einer statistischen Analyse...