In this paper we characterize efficient contingent claims to future consumption (consumption bundles) in multiperiod economies with uncertainty, taking a wide range of market firctions into account.

Seasonal patterns during the day and during the week in the stock exchange markets are idiosyncratic and thus they should be taken into account wh en modelling these data. In this paper we propose a component model for the analysis of financial durations, that can be extended easily to any othe...

At the Informal Ecofin of 11 September 1999 in Turku, ministers and governors agreed to ask the Economic and Financial Committee to check whether the existing regulatory and supervisory structures in the EU can safeguard financial stability, particularly in the context of a rapidly changing...

This paper provides a unifying framework in which identified offset and sterilisation equations can be derived and estimated. The theoretical model suggests that, in the case where the central bank cares about bouth external and internal goals and capital is less than perfectly mobile, there...

This paper studies contracts between brokers and investors when investors are heterogeneous and their types are non-contractible. We identify two novel features of the commission contract (in addition to the risk-sharing argument suggested in Brennan and Chordia 1993) wich help explain its...

Considerable research in accounting focuses on the role of accruals in capital market valuation and in contracting. The research shows accruals enable managers to improve on cash flows as a mesure of firm performance. However, since accruals provide managers with a means of managing...

This paper tests a smart money-noise trader model directly by seeing how well its predictions match the behavior of actual investors.

The authors develop an index of financial stress for the Canadian financial system. Stress is defined as the force exerted on economic agents by uncertainty and changing expectations of loss in financial markets and institutions. It is a continuous variable with a spectrum of values, where...

There currently exists in the literature several continuous-time one-factor models for short-term interest rates. This paper considers a wide range of these models that are nested into one general model. These models are approximated using both a discrete-time model and a model that accounts for...