arises, the debate is on. Derivatives especially, which are among the major innovations in the past thirty years, cause deep … concerns. In this paper, we propose a survey of the academic literature that has addressed the threats posed by derivatives. An … initial issue is the impact of derivatives on the volatility of the underlying assets, but empirical findings do not suggest …

discusses the legal-economic framework of speculation and its recent transformation, making reference to the case of derivatives … model of trade (and speculation) based on disagreement, advocating further developments that take into account market …

correct in pointing out that speculation with CDS can conceivably hurt the borrowers' interests, they fail to grasp that this …

-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) in relation to the causes and effects of Stock market speculation. It is based upon the works of this …'s thought in relation to speculation. It is divided into two parts. The first part is dedicated to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon …'s definitions of stock market speculation or gambling with shares that for him served no purpose either from a human or economic …

We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is … very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small …

also more exotic features such as combinations of single and double barriers. Price properties and hedging issues are …

We compare the performance of various hedging strategies for index collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tranches across … a variety of models and hedging methods during the recent credit crisis. Our empirical analysis shows evidence for …-dimensional bottom-up models perform better than simpler top-down models. When it comes to hedging, top-down and regression-based hedging …