This paper develops and simulates a model of a Bayesian market maker who transacts with noise and position traders in derivative markets. The impact of noise trading is examined relative to price determination in FX futures, noise transmission from futures to options, and risk-management...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of recent policy initiatives taken by the US Securities and Exchange Commission banning naked “short‐selling” of specific financial stocks. The paper also considers the merits of reinstating “uptick rule” 10a‐1, which...

As more print media move to online, news and media websites have evolved with increasing complexity in content, design, and monetization strategies. In this article, the authors examined and reported the web design patterns of 150 leading news and media websites in six different categories: TV...

This paper uses a multivariate GARCH framework to examine how the 2008 moratorium on short-selling affected the systemic return-risk across three firms at the center of the subprime mortgage crises: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest buyers of US home mortgages; and American...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of recent policy initiatives taken by the US Securities and Exchange Commission banning naked “short-selling” of specific financial stocks. The paper also considers the merits of reinstating “uptick rule” 10a-1, which...

In this paper, we present algorithms to solve a complex system of partial integro-differential equations (PIDE's) of parabolic type. The system is motivated by applications in finance where the solution of the system gives the price of European options in a regime-switching jump diffusion model....