The presence of indexed money modifies the demand for currency equation. An optimal demand for currency is derived from a transaction cost model, which includes indexed money. This money demand considers inflation an argument along with output and nominal interest rate. The estimation for the...

Many studies suggest that research productivity falls after tenure is granted. We have however limited choice-theoretic understanding of why this should occur. With some simplifying assumptions, we rationalize this as follows. Scholars are assumed to be “specialistsâ€: their research...

This paper adapts the Ethics of Spinoza into the Ramsey growth model and shows that the way people conceive and understand life, related to emotions of joy and sorrow, affects economic performance. The model has multiple equilibria: The Spinoza solution, optimism, leads to greater capital...

This paper studies the impact of mortgages on consumer debt and on debt on durable goods. We first present a stylized model in which an outstanding debt, representing mortgages, affects positively consumer debt, and debt on durable goods. The model is empirically tested for the U.S. using PSID...

Jump-Diffusion processes capture the standardized empirical statistical features of interest rate dynamis, thus providing an improved setting to overcome some of the mispricing of derivative securities that arises with the extensively develped pure diffusion models. A combination of...

The efficiency of capital markets is largely attributable to an effective information network that exists among market participantsthat include fund managers, analysts, and investors. The role of many market participants is to improve the flow of information to assist the market in becoming...

Regulations restricting investment by pension funds in high risk and foreign assets may quarantine member accounts from contagious transmissions during financial crises. This paper analyses contagion from US equity markets to emerging market autarchic assets (Colombian private pension funds)...

This paper examines market concentration and stock returns on the Australian Securities Exchange. We find that dominant companies operating in concentrated industries in Australia are able to generate significant risk-adjusted excess stock returns and excess profits on sales (monopoly rents)....

We analyse the effect of differing uncertainty assumptions on the costs of shareholder-bondholder conflicts arising from partially debt-financed investments. A partial equilibrium model, valid for a large class of diffusion processes, is developed and then applied to the specific cases of a...

In this paper, we present an alternative approach as a suitable framework under which liability driven investments can be valued and hedged. This benchmark approach values both assets and liabilities consistently under the real world probability measure using the best performing portfolio, the...