Basic methods to compute the required sample size are well understood and supported by widely available software. However, the sophistication of the sample size methods commonly used has not kept pace with the complexity of the experimental designs most often employed in practice. In this paper,...

This paper focuses on an analytic approach that has received relatively sparse application in the economics/finance literature: simulation. Providing a laboratory-type environment, simulation can generate data that enable a com- plex environment to be assessed in a tractable manner that might...

Strengthening competition in the equity markets has long been a major public policy objective. This paper turns to another important determinant of market quality, one that has received relatively little attention in the public policy debates: order integration — the way in which orders are...

Consumer demand for products often result in the purchase of multiple goods at the same time. Corner solutions, or the non-purchase of items, occur when consumers have strong preference for some goods that do not satiate and weak preference for other goods. However, if non-purchase arises...

This note presents the Blender, a concept that was developed at Unigestion by the Quantitative Research Hedge Fund Team. In the context of portfolio optimization we propose Blended portfolios as an alternative to efficient portfolios.Albeit Blended portfolios are sub-optimal in the mean-variance...

Goal: ISO 31000 Risk Management (RM) recently re-defined risk as the effect of uncertainty on an organization's ability to meet the objectives. Earlier, it defined risk as a combination of the probability and scope of the (predicted) consequences. The revised ISO Risk advances beyond a static...

Firms regularly use incentives to motivate their employees to be more productive. However, often little attention is paid to the language used in employment contracts to describe these incentives. It may be more effective to present incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach...

This paper reports an experiment that examines the effects of price complexity on market prices. In my experimental posted-offer markets, each seller offers an identical good to buyers with homogeneous preferences. First, sellers simultaneously decide on the price and the tariff structure of...

The subjective value given to time is a core concept of microeconomic choices. Using a sample of individuals questioned with regard to their time preference attitudes, we show that the subjective interest rate follows a negatively sloped term structure. It can be parameterized using two...