Qualitative properties of optimal investment strategies for a firm with quadratic costs and non-concave revenues are analysed. Organising information in a bifurcation diagram, it is found that the organising centre of the diagram is a so-called swallow-tail singularity. This implies the...

There is a general argument saying that adding derivative securities (options) to a financial market makes the market more efficient, and has therefore a stabilising effect. We investigate this claim by adding Arrow securities on future states of the world in the asset pricing model with...

We investigate an inflationary overlapping generations model where households predict future inflation rates by running a least squares regression of inflation rates or prices on their past levels. We critically examine the results on learning equilibria obtained by Bullard (1994) and...