Disclosure rules directly affect the availability of information to investors and therefore influence their choices. Australia has a unique disclosure environment whereby firms are required to immediately disclose any information that could have an effect on the price of the firm’s securities....

Research on the pricing of multifactor American options has been growing at a slow pace due to the curse of dimensionality. If we start to consider the pricing of American option contracts written on more than one underlying asset or relax the constant volatility assumption of the Black and...

Empirical evidence strongly suggests that interest rate volatility is stochastic and correlated to changes in interest rates. In addition, the intensity process has been shown to generate heavy-tailed behavior and this has been attributed to stochastic volatility. A good credit risk model should...

In the past five years, it has become clear that there is no longer such a thing as a single "risk-free" interest rate term structure for each currency in the market, and proper pricing of cash ows must take into account basis spreads and collateralisation. An aspect of this issue is considered...

The phenomenon of the frequency basis (i.e. a spread applied to one leg of a swap to exchange one oating interest rate for another of a different tenor in the same currency) contradicts textbook no-arbitrage conditions and has become an important feature of interest rate markets since the...

Optimal c ontrol problems of swit hing type with linear state dynamic s are ubiquitous in appli ations of sto hasti c optimization. For high-dimensional problems of this type, solutions whi h utilize some c onvexity related properties are useful. For su ch problems, we present novel algorithmic...

Traditional market makers are losing their importance as automated systems have largely assumed the role of liquidity provision in markets. We update the model of Glosten and Milgrom (1985) to analyze this new world: we add multiple securities and introduce an automated market maker who prices...

Market models which re ect stylised properties of the interest rate term structure are widely used for modelling and pricing interest rate derivatives. We consider a market model involving the short rate and a diversied global stock index. We illustrate the stylised properties of the interest...

According to theoretical arguments, a properly designed emission trading system should help reaching pollution reduction at low social burden. Based on the theoretical work of environmental economists, cap-and-trade systems are put into operations all over the world. However, the practice from...

The equity premium forecasting literature provides ample evidence of predictability for both fundamental economic variables and non-fundamental variables, such as time-series momentum. In this paper, we study the role of investor setiment in equity premium predictability. Consistent with the...