This paper develops a model of regulated Brownian motion with an endogenous profit term to analyze the role of regulatory credibility on the stability and productivity of the banking system. We show that when regulatory intervention is perfect and costless, the volatility of the system can be...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>We apply the stochastic dominance (SD) tests proposed by Linton et al. (2005) and Davidson and Duclos (2000) for risk averters and risk seekers to examine investors’ preferences with respect to the Taiwan stock index and its corresponding index futures. We...</p>

This paper studies some properties of stochastic dominance (SD) for risk-averse and risk-seeking investors, especially for the third order SD (TSD). We call the former ascending stochastic dominance (ASD) and the latter descending stochastic dominance(DSD). We first discuss the basic property of...

Purpose – Seeks to analyze the role of population and wealth in determining capital movements between countries. Design/methodology/approach – By applying the Clark‐Jokung 50 percent portfolio theorem, considers the specific case of a two country world where the cumulative conditional...