According to a statement made in the BP Energy Outlook report in 2017, most of the world's liquid fuel (petroleum) is being consumed by the transportation industry. The mechanisms used to stimulate changes in the energy markets are affected by government policies that act in more ambitious ways...

It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...

The aim of this paper is to develop a continuous time exchange rate model that allows for heterogeneity of the agents' beliefs, in order to explore non-linearities and possible chaotic behaviour. The theoretical model contains an intrinsic non-linearity that gives rise to a jerk differential...

The classical theory about foreign exchange rate explains its fluctuations as the resulting of a random walk motion. In this paper, such a theory is put into question by performing Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman's (1987) test on the Austrian Schilling - US Dollars exchange rate for the period...

The paper uses micro cross-section data from the GfK consumer panel for econometric demand analysis of private households in Germany. Contrary to most research which considered "average" behavior we extend this approach to consumer behavior for different "intensities" of consumption. Our...

Based on two hundred years of annual data of the Netherlands , Germany , US and Japan we analyse the mean reversion of long-term interest rates, by unit root tests over rolling windows and taking into account structural breaks and regime changes. While short-term rates and the yield curve tend...

This paper applies the multi-scale beta estimation approach based on wavelet analysis to all stocks comprising BSE-Sensex. Betas are calculated based on the wavelet decomposition from the Maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (DWT). It is shown that the multi-scale beta estimation approach...

This paper applies the multi-scale beta estimation approach based on wavelet analysis to all stocks comprising BSE-Sensex. Betas are calculated based on the wavelet decomposition from the Maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (DWT). It is shown that the multi-scale beta estimation approach...

The successful investment policy is an integral part of successful activity of the insurance company. The return to the shareholders of the insurance company usually thought of as comprising the underwriting result and investment income. The investment income is very important even for an...

In this paper, we show that the comovement of bond yields in the EU before and during the European sovereign debt crisis is frequency-dependent. Using frequency cohesion and wavelet coherence, we demonstrate that the comovement is concentrated mainly at low frequencies. The comovement decreased...