This paper analyses the effects of different model specifications.

Japan has experienced turbulent behavior of land prices after World War II, especially after 1985. This paper first examines the explanatory power of a simple present-value model and shows its limitation. We then investigate two additional (not mutually exclusive) factors affecting the Japanese...

We consider the problem of consistently pricing new options given the prices of related options on the same stock. The Black-Scholes formula and standard binomial trees can only accommodate one related European option which then effectively specifies the volatility parameter. Implied binomial...

While theoretical models strongly suggest that short-sales are mainly driven by private information, recent empirical evidence of has been rather mixed. This paper contributes to the discussion by looking at various potential motives to sell short and compares these with regular buys and sales...

The world market of crude oil has three well established benchmarks used for pricing of other crudes: West Texas Intermediate, Europe Brent and Dubai Fateh. The relevance of these are however declining, as the output of the benchmarks is decreasing, and as an increasing share of world crude...

This paper provides an indepth analysis of Irredeemable Convertible Unsecured Loan Stocks or ICULS. A Malaysian variant of the convertible bond, ICULS are a hybrid security. Despite their introduction and trading since the late 1980’s, not much work have been done on them. This paper presents...

Financial risk management typically deals with low probability events in the tails of asset price distributions. In order to capture the behavior of these tails, one should therefore rely on models that explicitly focus on the tails. Extreme value theory (EVT) based models do exactly that, and...

Med afsæt i et historisk lavt dividende-pris (D-P) forhold har Tom Engsted & Carsten <p> Tanggaard prædikteret, at det danske aktiemarked vil falde med 50 % i.f.t niveauet i 1996, <p> idet en tilbagevenden af D-P ratioen til det historiske gennemsnit hævdes primært at komme i <p> stand via...</p></p></p>

We estimate a well-specified two-state regime-switching model for Danish stock returns. The <p> model identifies two regimes which have low return-low volatility and high return-high <p> volatility, respectively. The low return-low volatility regime dominated, except in a few, short <p> episodes, until...</p></p></p>

Using annual data over the post-World War I-period, we estimate a fundamentals-based <p> empirical model for the dividend-price ratio of Danish stocks. The key fundamentals-variable <p> is a time-varying discount rate, decomposed into time-varying measures for the growth-adjusted <p> real interest rate...</p></p></p>