We propose a procedure for estimating the critical values of the extended Kolmogorov- Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance in the general K-prospect case. We allow for the observations to be serially dependent and, for the first time, we can accommodate general dependence...

Mankiw and Reis (2002) have proposed sticky information as an alternative to Calvo sticky prices in order to model the conventional view that i) inflation reacts with delay and gradually to a monetary policy shock, ii) announced and credible disinflations are contractionary and iii) inflation...

We obtain an explicit form of fine large deviation theorems for the log-likelihood ratio in testing models with observed Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and get explicit rates of decrease for error probabilities of Neyman-Pearson, Bayes, and minimax tests. We also give expressions for the rates of...

In this survey, we show that various stochastic optimization problems arising in option theory, in dynamical allocation problems, and in the microeconomic theory of intertemporal consumption choice can all be reduced to the same problem of representing a given stochastic process in terms of...

We consider an optimal stopping problem in a certain model described by a stochastic delay differential equation. We reduce the initial problem to a free-boundary problem of parabolic type and prove the corresponding verification assertion. We also give an example of such an optimal stopping...

Stochastic Delay Differential Equations (SDDE) are Stochastic Functional Differential Equations with important applications. It is of interest to characterize the L2-stability (stability of second moments) of solutions of SDDE. For the class of linear, scalar SDDE we can show that second...

Rare and randomly occurring events are important features of the economic world. In continuous time they can easily be modeled by Poisson processes. Analyzing optimal behavior in such a setup requires the appropriate version of the change of variables formula and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman...

This paper deals with the problem of the discrimination between stable and unstable time series. One criterion for the seperation is given by the size of the Lyapunov exponent, which was originally defined for deterministic systems. However, this paper will show, that the Lyapunov exponent can...

In this paper we compare the price of an option with one year maturity of the German stock index DAX for several volatility models including long memory and leverage effects. We compute the price by applying a present value scheme as well as the Black-Scholes and Hull-White formulas which...

This paper analyses a RBC model in continuous time featuring deterministic incremental development of technology and stochastic fundamental inventions arriving according to a Poisson process. Other than in standard RBC models, shocks are uncorrelated, irregular and rather seldom. In two special...