Hedge funds (and their clients) investing in gold should be aware of the differences among competing gold investment products. Gold appeals to different investors for different reasons, and different gold investment products can be more or less responsive to the investor's motivations. Hedge...

This paper considers the debate about the "macro-prudential regulation" of finance in the context of a broader view of the relation of finance to the real economy. Five ideas are central to the argument. The first idea is that the two dominant families of ideas about finance and its regulation...

The pooling and tranching of assets into prioritized cash-flow claims has become a substantial source of revenue for issuers as well as rating agencies in the last decade. With the recent demise of vehicles used to operationalize these structured deals, a natural question arises as to the...

Investment decision of each individual vary with the time, situation, environmental condition, psychological behavior, demographical behavior (age, gender, background etc), safety, return, income of individual, knowledge of individual about investment alternatives, etc. In this study we try to...

Calibrating a trading rule using a historical simulation (also called backtest) contributes to backtest overfitting, which in turn leads to underperformance. In this paper we propose a procedure for determining the optimal trading rule (OTR) without running alternative model configurations...

This is a case study of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merger. It is based on the article, Fiduciary Exemption for Public Necessity: Shareholder Profit, Public Good, and the Hobson's Choice during a National Crisis, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 661 (2010). The case study analyzes the...