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Apparent mean reversion and excess volatility in stock market prices can be reconciled with the Efficient Market … production side of the economy exhibit mean reversion. It also predicts that mean reversion and excess volatility will differ …
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from price changes in other markets. This provides a channel through which a "mistake" in one market can be transmitted to … other markets. Hourly stock price data from New York, Tokyo and London during an eight month period around the crash offer … volatility …
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The well-known option pricing formula of Black and Scholes depends upon the assumption that price fluctuations are log … be more nearly the case in most markets, price fluctuations are in fact symmetrics table or log-symmetric stable. This … generating log-normal price uncertainty. It is then used to derive the value of a short-lived option for certain processes that …
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show that IDT activity reduces bid ask spread and increases intra-day volatility and total volume traded. The volume traded …
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economy with continuous consumption and dividend paths, in which endogenous price jumps originate from the market impact of … endogenous relation between a shock's persistence and the magnitude of the induced price jump. As the number of frequencies … driving fundamentals goes to infinity, the price process converges to a novel stochastic process, which we call a multifractal …
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This paper studies quantitative implications of model economies that exhibit multiple equilibria. The goal is to assess two interrelated issues. First, do economies with multiple equilibria have falsifiable predictions? Second, is identification possible in economies that exhibit multiple...
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A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key regularities of unemployment over the business cycle. In the model the return to a job moves stochastically. Agents can choose either to quit and search for a better job, or...
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This paper investigates the dynamic behavior of an economy with multiple Nash equilibria. The first part of the paper analyzes an abstract game exhibiting multiple equilibria. A history dependent selection criterion is proposed which induces correlated behavior in equilibrium even though agents...
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Fluctuations in the equilibrium rate of unemployment can only be understood within a theory of the natural or equilibrium rate. It is not enough to say that unemployment is the difference between supply and demand in the labor market, though of course it always will be. In equilibrium, no...
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This paper studies the predictability of ultra high-frequency stock returns and durations to relevant price, volume and …
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