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For the Euro 2000 Soccer Championships an experimental asset market was condueted, with traders buying and selling contracts on the winners of individual matches. Market-generated probabilities are compared to professional bet quotas, and factors that are responsible for the quality of the...
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.’s investment game by introducing an upper bound to what a contributor can be repaid afterwards. By varying this upper bound …
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The utility maximization problem of "ratchet investors" who do not tolerate any decline in their consumption rate is solved explicitly for all felicity functions in a Markovian framework which includes Brownian motion and Poisson processes as special cases. The optimal consumption plan turns out...
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contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …
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Modern econometrics requires implementation of highly specialized software. In contrast to mathematical arguments used in implementing new econometric techniques the corresponding software algorithms require specific platforms. The specialization of hardware and software, in fact, seriously...
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world income distribution dynamics. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between two competing … evidence suggests that the high social returns to investment in equipment (as opposed to structure) reflect technology transfer … contributes to the polarization of the world income distribution. -- economic growth ; neoclassical convergence ; technological …
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In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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In this note the unobserved component approach underlying the software package SEATS is compared with the Beveridge-Nelson type of decomposition for seasonal time series. The main strength of the SEATS approach lies in the appealing model formulation and the careful specification and adjustment...
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We emphasize the importance of properly identifying the long-run relations underlying the monetary model of the exchange rate. The separate estimation of long-run money demands leads to a "structural" error correction equation which allows an interpretation of the various channels affecting the...
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