The supply/demand of a security in the market is an intertemporal, not a static, object and its dynamics is crucial in determining market participants' trading behavior. Previous studies on the optimal trading strategy to execute a given order focuses mostly on the static properties of the...

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas the prices of those that are unattainable can only be bounded. We first show that tighter price...

The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for asset pricing in a continuous time general equilibrium model for a two country Lucas type economy. The model assumes that the output in the two countries follows a jump-diffusion stochastic process characterized by constant growth rates and...

Using transaction data for call options on the DAX, this study examines the empirical performance of (i) the standard Black/Scholes model (1973), (ii) the jump-diffusion model by Merton (1976), (iii) Heston's stochastic volatility model (1993), and (iv) Bates' stochastic volatility...

Adding a motivation for trading due to endowment differences to standard asset pricing assumptions, we investigate the impact of illiquidity due to small numbers of participants. We calibrate to observed activity levels, returns, transaction costs and volatility in equity markets. We show that,...

Adding a motivation for trading due to endowment differences to standard asset pricing assumptions, we investigate the impact of illiquidity due to small numbers of participants. We calibrate to observed activity levels, returns, transaction costs and volatility in equity markets. We show that,...

We solve a Dixit and Pindyck type irreversible investment problem in continuous time under the assumption that the project value follows a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process. We indicate how the solution qualitatively differs from the two classical cases geometric Brownian motion and geometric mean...

We study the classical real option problem in which an agent faces the decision if and when to invest optimally into a project. The investment is assumed to be irreversible. This problem has been studied by Myers and Majd [18] for the case of a complete market, in which the risk can be perfectly...

Following Constantinides' (1986) seminal approach and introducing transaction costs in the Pagano (1989) model, conventional CARA investors with heterogeneous endowments trade to construct optimal portfolios. We calibrate to the 1896-1994 equity and bond markets to show that gains from trade are...

The general equilibrium model with incomplete asset markets provides a unified framework for many problems in finance and macroeconomics. In its simplest version with only two time periods and a single physical commodity the model is ideally suited for the study of problems in cross sectional...