Because of non-traded human capital, real-world fi nancial markets are massively incomplete. The modeling of imperfect, dynamic financial markets is a wide-open and difficult field, as yet barely ploughed. Following Cox, Ross and Rubinstein (1979), who calculated the prices of derivative...

This case study and associated teaching note examine the key success drivers of Rothschild Bank AG, one of the most profitable private banks in the world according to a 2003 Boston Consulting Group survey. The case is set in 2004, when despite the bank's recent success, its future was surrounded...

We incorporate trading fees in a long-horizon dynamic general-equilibrium model in which traders optimally and endogenously decide when and how much to trade. A full characterization of equilibrium is provided, which allows us to study the dynamics of equilibrium trades, equilibrium asset prices...

Entry into a market seems to necessitate some investment into "marketing capital" (or distribution capital: advertising, dealerships etc ... ). This form of investment has the property that, if it is unused for some time, it quickly becomes worthless. When entry into a market requires marketing...

Under different assumptions about the underlying monetary shocks, we study target zones of various widths and the effect they have on variables like the interest differential. The stochastic disturbances assumed are successively a non-zero mean random walk and a mean reverting process. The...

Dixit (1988) observed that the mathematical construct of "regulated Brownian motion" developed by Harrison (1985) had proved useful in economic models of decision-making under uncertainty. In a recent note he provided a number of methods for calculating expected discounted payoff functions based...

This paper extends the Krugman target zone model by including a realignment mechanism. Various properties of that realignment mechanism are discussed. The movement of the exchange rate is governed both by a Wiener process on fundamental and by a Poisson jump process with endogenous realignment...