Equity mutual funds earn large positive returns on the last day of the year, and large negative returns on the following day. The same applies on a smaller scale at quarter-ends that aren't month-ends. Empirical evidence from a variety of sources, including portfolio disclosures and intra-day...

This paper sets out to quantify, with the use of a consumption-based CAMP, the risk premiums inherent in the Israeli market for index-linked and non-index-linked bonds. In contrast to what has appeared in the macroeconomics literature, this study, quantifies the size and dynamics of two such...

We provide a monotonic transformation of an initial diffusion with a level-dependent diffusion parameter that yields a second, deterministic parameter process. Altering the diffusion parameter while maintaining the original Brownian motion at the expense of the drift can be viewed as a...