This study examines the distributional properties of futures prices for contracts traded on LIFFE. A filtering process is employed to remove day of the week and holiday effects, a maturity effect, moving average effects and the influence of an asset's conditional variance from the raw returns...

This study investigates the factors driving the development of the UK equity release market. The results of a thematic review of semi-structured interviews with industry stakeholders (comprising senior representatives of product providers, advice providers and regulators) suggest that the...

We estimate a structural profit model for 956 matched pairs of US credit unions and commercial banks, using the results to examine how the subsidies associated with credit unions' income tax exemptions and non-profit status are allocated across various stakeholders. We find economically large...