<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>This paper examines the relationship between returns and dividend yield in the UK stock market, and introduces earnings-related data to the asset pricing model in the form of payout ratio. The latter has a considerable effect upon the inferences which would otherwise be drawn from a...

The equity risk premium has attracted considerable debate and various proposed explanations. We re-examine one approach based on myopic loss aversion, while incorporating time variation in returns distributions. We identify optimal asset allocations across a two-century period for the UK, in the...

This paper analyses the impact of a move from fractional to decimal pricing in the UK Long Gilt futures market, and thus offers a unique insight to tick size reduction and decimalization in a derivatives market setting. The reduced tick size leads to an increase in price clustering. The...