Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of recent policy initiatives taken by the US Securities and Exchange Commission banning naked “short‐selling” of specific financial stocks. The paper also considers the merits of reinstating “uptick rule” 10a‐1, which...

As more print media move to online, news and media websites have evolved with increasing complexity in content, design, and monetization strategies. In this article, the authors examined and reported the web design patterns of 150 leading news and media websites in six different categories: TV...

In March 2020 the U.S. equity market is suffering large losses. This is primarily due to COVID-19, which probably also caused a drop in the shale oil price. US market indices are fluctuating this month much more than any time in history. In this short note, we are using two high frequency market...

This paper presents a new financial market simulator that may be used as a tool in both industry and academia for research in market micro-structure. It allows multiple automated traders and/or researchers to simultaneously connect to an exchange-like environment, where they are able to...

This article introduces a new methodology to approximate the prices of variance, gamma and corridor swaps in a stochastic volatility framework applicable to any given tree structure. The efficiency of this tree method is based on the decomposing the payoff structure into nested conditional...

In this paper, we propose an approach to modeling the jump component of a jump-diffusion model using a log mixture of normals distribution. We define explicitly theproperties of the distribution and use it to create an analytic formula for Europeanoption price. Numerous examples of applications...

In a recent study, we present a tree methodology to evaluate the expected generalized realized variance in a general stochastic volatility model. This provides an efficient way of calculating the fair value of the strike for variance swaps. In this article, we expand the methodology to price...