This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...

We study the influence of systematic probability misestimation on complexfinancial investment decisions on the context of structured financialproducts. Structured products have in recent years become more and morecomplex. We study the question whether this complexity might be a...

CEO compensation has increased substantially over the past 15 years, but so has forcedturnover. Motivated by this observation, we investigate whether part of the developmentof CEO pay can be explained by a premium which compensates CEOs for increased job risk.We ¯nd that for the CEOs of the...

Evolutionary nance studies the dynamic interaction of investment strategies in nancialmarkets. This market interaction generates a stochastic wealth dynamics on aheterogenous population of traders through the uctuation of asset prices and theirrandom payos. Asset prices are endogenously...

We study how the framework of classical game theory changes whenthe preferences of the players are described by Prospect Theory (PT)and Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) instead of Expected UtilityTheory. Specically, we study the inuence of framing eects and probabilityweighting on the existence...

In recent years, the number of automation projects has increased throughout the Finance Industry and particularly in securities trading and processing. The same observation can be made for corporate actions automation projects. Corporate actions messages are triggered when specific decisions are...

In der Schweiz betreibt eine Großzahl der Banken neben dem Bank- ebenfalls das Effektenhandelsgeschäft. Dazu benötigen sie von der eidgenössischen Bankenkommission (EBK) je eine separate Bewiligung als Bank und Effektenhändler. Effektenhändler, welche nicht gleichzeitig auch das...

...We demonstrate how the financial sector’s net output and service production can be measured using aggregate financialstatement data. We briefly examine current treatments of financial services in the national income accounts and introduce aconceptual framework for the construction of a...

Spendensammelnde Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPOs) verfügen verglichen mit gewinnorientierten Unternehmen ähnlicher Größe über relativ hohe finanzielle Reserven in Form eines Finanzvermögens.Deren Höhe hängt von verschiedenen Faktoren ab, die im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie untersucht...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema der Regulierung von Finanzmärkten, über die die Öffentlichkeit getrennter Meinung ist. Während Industrievertreter über die zahlreichen Vorschriften klagen, sehen manche Nichtregierungs-Organisationen in den Finanzmärkten ein Spielfeld...