The new open-economy macroeconomics seeks to provide an improved basis for monetary and exchange-rate policy through the construction of open-economy models that feature rational expectations, optimising agents, and slowly adjusting prices of goods. This paper promotes an alternative approach...

Der folgende Beitrag analysiert das optimale Verhalten eines Investors, der Arbitrage zwischen Kassa- und Futuresmarkt betreibt. Gegenüber dem Standardmodell der cash & carry-Arbitrage wird der zulässige Strategieraum des Arbitrageurs erweitert, indem berücksichtigt wird, daß der Arbitrageur...

Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not uniform across maturities. As funding pressures were...

The beta dispersion, which is the spread of betas on a stock market, can be interpreted as a measure of market vulnerability. This study examines the economic idea of the beta dispersion and its application as a market return predictor. Based on the empirical beta dispersion observed in the US...