AbstractThe following sections are included:The sell on Rosh Hashanah and buy on Yom Kippur anomalyRamadanInflation versus DeflationGoldHousing trendsWhat's going on in China?Income inequality and government regulationJapan: Still a lot of troubleConclusion

The following sections are included:IntroductionFinancial Market, Investment Portfolio and BenchmarkDynamic Programming and the Value FunctionExistence of a Classical (C1,2) Solution Under Affine Drift AssumptionsExistence of a Classical (C1,2) Solution Under Standard Control AssumptionsFund...

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....

Disputes whether financial structure can create value or not were started more than 50 years ago with Modigliani Miller theorem. In this paper I would like to present my own view on level of debt in value creation process. What I am going to prove is that due to expansion option companies with...

In present study, I explore the dynamics of the interday stock price reversals. In particular, I try to shed light on reversals in opening stock returns, that is, on the price reversals during the opening trading sessions with respect to previous day's price tendencies. I analyze intraday price...

Following recent evidence of out-of-sample stock market return predictability, the authors aim to evaluate whether the potential benefits suggested by asset allocation theory can actually be captured in the real world using expected return estimates from a predictive system. The question is...

In this paper, we assess the benefits from international factor diversification under a regime based portfolio construction framework that takes into account the dynamic changes in stock markets. We show that there are significant costs to investors who fail to (a) pursue an international...

In this paper we investigate household financial fragility and assess the role played by the composition of the household portfolio besides standard determinants of this condition (e.g. income, indebtedness, age, gender, financial literacy). We take the case of Italy, given the very peculiar...

Mutual funds in India play a vital role in mobilizing funds for capital and financial markets. The role of mutual funds in India felt significant as it generates funds from small investors at large across the country. The main objective of the study is to elucidate the perceptions and behaviours...