Long-only-Indexfonds stehen seit geraumer Zeit unter Verdacht, für die Preisanstiege an landwirtschaftlichen Warenterminmärkten, insbesondere für Getreide, verantwortlich zu sein. Diese Arbeit untersucht anhand partieller Gleichgewichtskonzepte die langfristige Marktwirkung von...

For a considerable time, long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases on agricultural futures markets, particularly those for grain. Utilizing partial equilibrium concepts, we analyze the market impacts of long-only index funds. Our analysis reveals that...

This paper examines the relative information shares of the Bund, i.e. the ten-year Euro bondfuture contract on German sovereign debt, versus two futures with shorter maturity. We findthat the Bund is most important but does not dominate price discovery. The other contractsalso have relevant –...

We will present a model to compute a lower bound for the price of this option. The model, represented by a non-linear parabolic PDE, is implemented with finite elements in order to demonstrate the results with several derivatives from the European market.

We derive a unified model which gives closed form solutions for caps and floors written on interest rates as well as puts and calls written on zero-coupon bonds. The crucial assumption is that forward rates with a compounding period that matches the contract, which we want to price, is...

Starting with observable annually compounded forward rates we derive a term structure model of interest rates. The model relies upon the assumption that a specific set of annually compounded forward rates is log-normally distributed. We derive solutions for interest rate caps and floors as well...

In this paper the authors measure the risk attitudes of bond investors which can be revealed from settled market prices. They present an equilibrium model which focuses on the stochastic behavior of tastes in addition to the dynamics of investor beliefs.

State price density (SPD) contains important information concerning market expectations. In existing literature, a constrained estimator of the SPD is found by nonlinear least squares in a suitable Sobolev space...

The binomial model has been used to price a wide variety of equity and interest rateoptions for more than two decades. Originally developed by Cox, Ross, and Rubinsteinto clarify the basic pricing principle of its continuous-time counterpart with reduced mathematicalrequirements, the approach...

In the past decades several versions of the binomial model for option pricing, originallyintroduced by COX, ROSS, AND RUBINSTEIN, have been discussed in the financeliterature. Some of these approaches model an arbitrage-free market in the discrete setupwhereas others attain this property only in...