The rising gasoline prices of the past few years were not associated with shifts from vehicles with lower MPG to vehicles with higher MPG. This has been seen as evidence that gasoline prices have little impact on the purchase choices of new-vehicle buyers. However, this paper presents new...

This paper studies the short run correlation of inflation and money growth. We study whether a model of learning does better or worse than a model of rational expectations, and we focus our study on countries of high inflation. We take the money process as an exogenous variable, estimated from...

We investigate the prepayment option related to a corporate loan. The default intensity of the firm is supposed to follow a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process and the short interest rate is assumed constant. A liquidity term that represents the funding costs of the bank is introduced and modeled...

The present financial crises determines an increase in analysing the application of regime switching over portfolio investments. We applied the switching regimes to measurement of risk as presented in post-modern portfolio management theory. Post-modern portfolio theory include investor’s...