A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais et al. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumption generating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to all markets by...

Fifty-two research interviews were conducted with money managers controlling over $500 billion. This paper presents detailed material from one interview to argue interviews usefully describe their shared reality and provide information about the conditions of action facing financial...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

The Bachelier Society for Mathematical Finance, founded in 1996, held its 1st World Congress in Paris on June 28 to July 1, 2000, thus coinciding in time with the centenary of the thesis defence of Louis Bachelier. In his thesis Bachelier introduced Brownian motion as a tool for the analysis of...

The MICEX Index, after having risen by 2% to 1,513 points over the fi rst ten days of July, then dropped by 10% towards the month’s end. By 28 July, MICEX Index stood at 1,361.9 points. The MICEX’s capitalizati on by 28 July had amounted to Rb 21.8 trillion (or 32.0% of GDP). Russia’s...

In August 2014, the MICEX Index, after having risen to 1,460 points as of 21 August, over the next few days dropped by 4.1%, standing as of 29 August at 1,400.7 points. The MICEX’s capitalization as of 29 August amounted to Rb 22.4 trillion (or 34.6% of GDP). In August, the main negative...

In September 2014, the MICEX Index saw an uptrend starting at 1392 and reaching a month high of 1477 by September 16 but then went down to 1430 and stood still until the end of the month. The MICEX capitalization was Rb 22,8trillion (35.2% of GDP) by September 25. At the same time, the share of...

We show that financial development has a non-monotonic effect on growth in the Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Fisman and Love (2007) sample. Beyond a threshold, financially dependent industries and industries facing good growth opportunities grow disproportionately more slowly.

This paper reviews and appraises the body of empirical research on the association between .nancial markets and economic growth that has accumulated over the past quarter-century. The bulk of the historical evidence suggests that financial development a¤ects economic growth in a positive,...

This paper reviews some of the difficult challenges facing debt managers in the years to come. In countries experiencing a rapidly diminishing gross debt, particularly the United States, this raises the issue of whether private-sector securities can serve as a substitute for the traditionally...