The present paper revisits the path by which Coase came to set down the result now generally known as the Coase theorem in his 1960 article. I draw on both the published record and archival resources in an effort to clear away some of the mist and, as it will emerge, dispel some of the...

Using techniques from deep learning, we show that neural networks can be trained successfully to replicate the modified payoff functions that were first derived in the context of partial hedging by Föllmer and Leukert. Not only does this approach better accommodate the realistic setting of...