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Mathematically oriented microeconomic research has contributed enormously to the understanding of economic behavior and the functioning of markets and institutions. However, theoretical as well as applied microeconomic studies may be driven too much by mathematical feasibility. An illustrative...
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The work studies the properties of a coordination game in which agents repeatedly compete to be in the population minority. The game reflects some essential features of those economic situations in which positive rewards are assigned to individuals who behave in opposition to the modal behavior...
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We derive analytical valuation formulas for compound options when the underlying asset follows a jump-diffusion process. We then apply these results to value extendible options, American call options on stocks that follow jump-diffusion processes and pay discrete dividends, and American options...
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) the volatility of financial prices is time-varying; (ii) when volatility is high, the price changes in major markets tend … Market Co-Movements.‰h NBER Working Paper 7267. 3 King, Mervyn, and Sushil Wadhwani (1990). ‰gTransmission of Volatility …
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by fat tailed returns with clustered volatility that are considered to be the most important stylized facts in financial … mathematical mechanisms that give cause to volatility clustering. References 1 Brock, W.A., and Hommes, C.H., (1997), Models of … Hommes, C. H., (2000), A NonlinearStructural Model fro Volatility Clustering, CeNDEF working paper, University of Amsterdam …
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I present a fully-rational symmetric-information model of an IPO, as well as a dynamic imperfectly competitive model of the aftermarket trading that follows. The model helps explain why IPO share allocations favor large institutional investors. It also helps to explain IPO underpricing, and...
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