his paper examines the monthly interrelation of option volume and price return for actively traded Frankfurt Stock Exchange stocks and their European Derivatives Exchange traded options during the trading period of May to August 2002. The purpose is to investigate whether microfinance...

We provide evidence on the fit of the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve for selected euro zone countries, the US and the UK. Instead of imposing rational expectations and estimating the Phillips curve by the Generalized Method of Moments, we follow Roberts (1997) and Adam and Padula (2003) and...