"A clear, practical guide to working effectively with derivative securities products Derivatives Essentials is an accessible, yet detailed guide to derivative securities. With an emphasis on mechanisms over formulas, this book promotes a greater understanding of the topic in a straightforward...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Part One: Introduction to Forwards, Futures, and Options -- Chapter 1: Forwards and Futures -- Introduction -- 1.1 Forward contract characteristics -- 1.2 Long forward payoff -- 1.3 Long...

In this paper we examine the link between income inequality and financial overconfidence. Using data from the FINRA Foundation’s National Financial Capability Study we measure respondents’ self-perceived and actual investment knowledge and thus identify overconfident individuals. We also...

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 21 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these unique data, we examine how changes in corporate governance...

This paper examines the ability of well known mutual fund characteristics, including the expense ratio, turnover, fund size, recent past performance, manager tenure, and Morningstar mutual fund star ratings, to predict emerging market mutual fund performance. We form three separate samples of...

We perform an extensive examination of how the new Morningstar rating system, introduced in June 2002, predicts future fund performance. Specifically, we examine all domestic equity funds that were rated by Morningstar as of June 30, 2002. We then examine the performance of these funds over the...

This paper represents the first attempt, to our knowledge, to empirically examine the relationship between the quality of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) education and firm performance. This is an important question as many papers in the management literature have postulated that managers with...