This paper studies the welfare economics of informed trading in a stock market. We model the effect of more informative prices on investment, given that this dependence will itself be reflected in equilibrium prices. We show that in rational expectations equilibrium with price-taking competitive...

This paper develops statistical and computational tools for modelling returns forecasts to be used by a risk neutral investor. Any forecast with the same sign as the conditional mean optimises the loss function derived from this agents' decision problem, so the class of optimal predictors is...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces a new version of the Edgeworth process with trading activities centered around self-interested enterprising arbitragers; and second it examines how the prices of the derived securities are deteremined under this process.

This paper provides new evidence of the effect of weekly U.S. and Canadian M1 surprises on Canadian asset prices (stocks, T-bills, exchange rates) during the years John Crow was Governor of the Bank of Canada. In particular, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the evidence to the choice of...

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.

We investigate the behavior of long-run U.S./U.K. real exchange rate from 1885 to 1995.