Under optimal tournament design, we would expect agents to exert identical effort regardless of the shape of the contest function’s error component. We report data from laboratory experiments that provide a first test of this prediction. We find that efforts do not significantly differ when...

Under optimal tournament design, we would expect agents to exert identical effort regardless of the shape of the contest function’s error component. We report data from laboratory experiments that provide a first test of this prediction. We find that efforts do not significantly differ when...

In this paper we consider a market driven by a Wiener process where there is an insider and a regular trader. The insider has privileged information which has been deformed by an independent noise vanishing as the revelation time approaches. At this time, the information of every trader is the...

We prove a central limit theorem for functionals of two independent d-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with the same Hurst index H in (2d+2,2d) using the method of moments.

For a Gaussian process X and smooth function f, we consider a Stratonovich integral of f(X), defined as the weak limit, if it exists, of a sequence of Riemann sums. We give covariance conditions on X such that the sequence converges in law. This gives a change-of-variable formula in law with a...

We investigate the process of eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix-valued process which upper diagonal entries are independent one-dimensional Hölder continuous Gaussian processes of order γ∈(1/2,1). Using the stochastic calculus with respect to the Young integral we show that these eigenvalues...

We study the 1/H-variation of the indefinite integral with respect to fractional Brownian motion for , where this integral is defined as the divergence integral in the framework of the Malliavin calculus. An application to the integral representation of Bessel processes with respect to...

In this paper we establish the existence and uniqueness of a solution for stochastic Volterra equations assuming that the coefficients F(t,s,x) and Gi(t,s,x) are Ft-measurable, for s[less-than-or-equals, slant]t, where {Ft} denotes the filtration generated by the driving Brownian motion. We...