This article provides an overview of the empirical evidence on the magnitude and determinants of equity trading costs. The focus is primarily on the trades of institutional investors.

Equity mutual funds earn large positive returns on the last day of the year, and large negative returns on the following day. The same applies on a smaller scale at quarter-ends that aren't month-ends. Empirical evidence from a variety of sources, including portfolio disclosures and intra-day...

This paper sets out to quantify, with the use of a consumption-based CAMP, the risk premiums inherent in the Israeli market for index-linked and non-index-linked bonds. In contrast to what has appeared in the macroeconomics literature, this study, quantifies the size and dynamics of two such...

We provide a monotonic transformation of an initial diffusion with a level-dependent diffusion parameter that yields a second, deterministic parameter process. Altering the diffusion parameter while maintaining the original Brownian motion at the expense of the drift can be viewed as a...

The returns of assets that are traded on financial markets are more volatile than the returns offered bu intermediairies such as banks and insurance companies. This suggests that individual investors are exposed to more risk in countries which rely heavily on financial markets.

This paper examines the optimal consumption and investment problem for a "large" investor, whose portfolio choices affect the instantaneous expected returns on the traded assets.

We examine the intertemporal optimal consumption and investment problem in a continuous-time economy with a divisible durable good. Consumption services are assumed to be proportional to the stock of the good held and adjustment of the stock is costly, in that it involves the payment of a...

A growing number of empirical studies suggest that betas of common stocks do not adquately explain cross-sectional differences in stock returns. Instead, a number of other variables that have no basis in extant theoretical models semm to have significant predictive ability.