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Book Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets

Download or read book Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets written by Leighton Vaughan Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degree to which markets incorporate information is one of the most important questions facing economists today. This book provides a fascinating study of the existence and extent of information efficiency in financial markets, with a special focus on betting markets. Betting markets are selected for study because they incorporate features highly appropriate to a study of information efficiency, in particular the fact that each bet has a well-defined end point at which its value becomes certain. Using international examples, this book reviews and analyses the issue of information efficiency in both financial and betting markets. Part I is an extensive survey of the existing literature, while Part II presents a range of readings by leading academics. Insights gained from the book will interest students of financial economics, financial market analysts, mathematicians and statisticians, and all those with a special interest in finance or gambling.

Book The Random Walk Behaviour of Stock Prices

Download or read book The Random Walk Behaviour of Stock Prices written by Arusha Cooray and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis

Download or read book Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis written by Edwin J. Elton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update of a classic book in the field, Modern Portfolio Theory examines the characteristics and analysis of individual securities as well as the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. It stresses the economic intuition behind the subject matter while presenting advanced concepts of investment analysis and portfolio management. Readers will also discover the strengths and weaknesses of modern portfolio theory as well as the latest breakthroughs.

Book The World of Economics

Download or read book The World of Economics written by John Eatwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-05-13 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the central questions of economics and how do economists tackle them? This book aims to answer these questions in 100 essays, written by economists and selected from "The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics". It shows how economists deal with issues ranging from trade to taxation.

Book Indian Stock Market

Download or read book Indian Stock Market written by Gourishankar S. Hiremath and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is one of the major emerging economies of the world and has witnessed tremendous economic growth over the last decades. The reforms in the financial sector were introduced to infuse energy and vibrancy into the process of economic growth. The Indian stock market now has the largest number of listed companies in the world. The phenomenal growth of the Indian equity market and its growing importance in the economy is indicated by the extent of market capitalization and the increasing integration of the Indian economy with the global economy. Various schools of thought explain the behaviour of stock returns. The Efficient Market Theory is the most important theory of the School of Neoclassical Finance based on rational expectation and no-trade argument. The book investigates the growth and efficiency of the Indian stock market in the theoretical framework of the Efficiency Market Hypothesis (EMH). The main objective of the present study is to examine the returns behaviour in the Indian equity market in the changed market environment. A detailed and rigorous analysis, made with the help of the sophisticated time series econometric models, is one of the key elements of this volume. The analysis empirically tests the random walk hypothesis and focuses on issues like nonlinear dynamics, structural breaks and long memory. It uses new and disaggregated data on recent reforms and changes in the market microstructure. The data on various indices including sectoral indices help in measuring the relative efficiency of the market and understanding how liquidity and market capitalization affect the efficiency of the market.

Book The Italian Financial System Remodelled

Download or read book The Italian Financial System Remodelled written by P. Ciocca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the banking and finance industries in Italy and how these industries contribute to the Italian economy. Could these industries be the solution to the contradiction in which the country's economy has been caught for several years: it is better governed than it has been in the past, but is not growing as much as it could. The book looks at how this solution might be achieved and what factors will govern the contribution of the banking and finance industries.

Book The Journal of Finance

Download or read book The Journal of Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes across all the major fields of financial research. The most widely cited academic journal on finance and one of the most widely cited journals in economics as well.

Book Rethinking the Financial Crisis

Download or read book Rethinking the Financial Crisis written by Alan S. Blinder and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis. How have these stunning events changed our thinking about the role of the financial system in the economy, about the costs and benefits of financial innovation, about the efficiency of financial markets, and about the role the government should play in regulating finance? In Rethinking the Financial Crisis, some of the nation’s most renowned economists share their assessments of particular aspects of the crisis and reconsider the way we think about the financial system and its role in the economy. In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the crisis and also opens up new areas for exploration. Two separate chapters–by Burton G. Malkiel and by Hersh Shefrin and Meir Statman – debate whether the facts of the financial crisis upend the efficient market hypothesis and require a more behavioral account of financial market performance. To build a better bridge between the study of finance and the “real” economy of production and employment, Simon Gilchrist and Egan Zakrasjek take an innovative measure of financial stress and embed it in a model of the U.S. economy to assess how disruptions in financial markets affect economic activity—and how the Federal Reserve might do monetary policy better. The volume also examines the crucial role of financial innovation in the evolution of the pre-crash financial system. Thomas Philippon documents the huge increase in the size of the financial services industry relative to real GDP, and also the increasing cost per financial transaction. He suggests that the finance industry of 1900 was just as able to produce loans, bonds, and stocks as its modern counterpart—and it did so more cheaply. Robert Jarrow looks in detail at some of the major types of exotic securities developed by financial engineers, such as collateralized debt obligations and credit-default swaps, reaching judgments on which make the real economy more efficient and which do not. The volume’s final section turns explicitly to regulatory matters. Robert Litan discusses the political economy of financial regulation before and after the crisis. He reviews the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which he considers an imperfect but useful response to a major breakdown in market and regulatory discipline. At a time when the financial sector continues to be a source of considerable controversy, Rethinking the Financial Crisis addresses important questions about the complex workings of American finance and shows how the study of economics needs to change to deepen our understanding of the indispensable but risky role that the financial system plays in modern economies.

Book ARCH Models and Financial Applications

Download or read book ARCH Models and Financial Applications written by Christian Gourieroux and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical ARMA models have limitations when applied to the field of financial and monetary economics. Financial time series present nonlinear dynamic characteristics and the ARCH models offer a more adaptive framework for this type of problem. This book surveys the recent work in this area from the perspective of statistical theory, financial models, and applications and will be of interest to theorists and practitioners. From the view point of statistical theory, ARCH models may be considered as specific nonlinear time series models which allow for an exhaustive study of the underlying dynamics. It is possible to reexamine a number of classical questions such as the random walk hypothesis, prediction interval building, presence of latent variables etc., and to test the validity of the previously studied results. There are two main categories of potential applications. One is testing several economic or financial theories concerning the stocks, bonds, and currencies markets, or studying the links between the short and long run. The second is related to the interventions of the banks on the markets, such as choice of optimal portfolios, hedging portfolios, values at risk, and the size and times of block trading.

Book Commodity Futures Trading Commission Oversight

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1542 pages

Download or read book Commodity Futures Trading Commission Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Efficiency of China s Stock Market

Download or read book The Efficiency of China s Stock Market written by Shiguang Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating the efficiency of China's stock market in accordance with the theoretical framework of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, this book focuses on weak form and semi-strong form market efficiency. Empirical tests have been intensively conducted on the random walk hypothesis, the presence of market seasonality and the price reaction to publicly released information. In addition The Efficiency of China's Stock Market provides a comparative analysis between China's stock market and other countries' stock markets.

Book ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENTS IN HONOUR OF MOSTAFA EMAMI

Download or read book ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENTS IN HONOUR OF MOSTAFA EMAMI written by London Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society and published by MOSTAFA EMAMI. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENTS IN HONOUR OF MOSTAFA EMAMI Mostafa Emami’s work on the history of economic and management thought has been provoking debate for over one decades. This book brings together key contributions of recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces, including an extensive Article often neglected arguments for government intervention in the economy to correct market failures, and his critical view of the business class as an anti-social force. If you are interested in political economy and have some grounding in the subject matter then Emami’s essays make for engaging, essential reading, concludes Nick Taylor. essays in economic and management and managements in honour of mostafa emami: Collected Essays IV. Mostafa Emami’s. Rutledge. January 2013. Find this book: Mostafa Emami’s first volume of Collected Essays is, by all means, a book for those already acquainted with the history of economic and management thought. It is the work of an author who has such familiarity with his subject matter that each essay reads with the assumption of a thorough grounding in the subject. Mostafa Emami (PHD ECO.FIN) has been a Member Talent of Young Researchers and Elite Club (since 2010) and a Member of the Iran's National Elites Foundation (since 2012), and Research Fellow of Centre for Scientific Cooperation & Elite Affairs, Iran's Ministry of Defence, where he was promoted to Study in Doctor of Philosophy in field of financial behaviour from Michigan Technological University in 2013.He served as a graduate at "Tarbiat Modares University " from 2010 to 2012. He has carved out a vast area of expertise on the classical economists and his list of publications is dizzying in length. What has made him so influential is his possession of a renowned fighting spirit in the development of an of ten-controversial perspective of the subject matter. Fortunately for the reader, and certainly for the student of economic and managements, this means his papers consist of a set of clearly argued and lively debates on the classical economic and managements canon. This volume, which presents work from roughly the last decade, covers new fields of economists . One of his skills is his ability to make sense of the evolution of thought across such a daunting time-scale, and this collection demonstrates this quality admirably. This same attribute, however, is where much of the controversy surrounding his work lies. ,Publications,Profitability,Developing Country,United States,Cross Section,Economic Growth,Time Series,Interest Rate,Empirical Evidence,Case Study,Panel Data,Exchange Rate,Decision Making,Stock Returns,Monetary Policy,Indexation,Stock Market,Empirical Study,Human Capital,Competitive Advantage,Empirical Analysis,Stock Price,Business Cycle,Asset Prices,Satisfiability,International Business,Risk Aversion,Labor Market,Growth Rate,International Trade,Financial Market,Firm Performance,Supply Chain,Economic Development,Empirical Research,New Products,Design Methodology,Transaction Cost,Information Technology,Corporate Governance,Unit Root,Service Quality,Performance Measure,Economic Theory,Capital Market,Theoretical Model,Small Firms,Customer Satisfaction,Statistical Significance,Cash Flow,United Kingdom,Technological Change,Foreign Direct Investment,Public Good,Firm Size,Strategic Management,Asymmetric Information,Capital Structure,Supply Chain Management,Public Policy,Organizational Learning,Market Structure,Option Pricing,Term Structure,Property Rights,Conceptual Framework,Political Economy,Life Cycle,Rational Expectation,Utility Function,Market Share,Private Information,Decision Maker,New Technology,Time Varying,Dynamic Model,Instrumental Variable,Survey Data,Resource Based View,Data Collection

Book Country Risk Assessment

Download or read book Country Risk Assessment written by Michel Henry Bouchet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few books on the subject, Country Risk Assessment combines the theoretical and practical tools for managing international country risk exposure. - Offers a comprehensive discussion of the specific mechanisms that apply to country risk assessment. - Discusses various techniques associated with global investment strategy. - Presents and analyses the various sources of country risk. - Provides an in depth coverage of information sources and country risk service providers. - Gives techniques for forecasting country financial crises. - Includes practical examples and case studies. - Provides a comprehensive review of all existing methods including the techniques on the cutting-edge Market Based Approaches such as KMV, CreditMetrics, CountryMetrics and CreditRisk+.

Book Semi Strong Form Efficiency of Indian Stock Market in Post Reform Period

Download or read book Semi Strong Form Efficiency of Indian Stock Market in Post Reform Period written by Dr Madhuchhanda Lahiri and published by Walnut Publication. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Efficient Market Hypothesis is an elegant edifice that provides a basis on which the efficiency tests of a stock market are performed at three distinct levels: weak - form, semi-strong form and strong - form. This magnificent edifice of EMH rests on the Random Walk Theory which contends that all price changes reflect a random departure from previous prices. The weak form of the hypothesis states that prices efficiently reflect all information contained in the past series of stock prices whereas the semi-strong form efficiency contends that security prices factor in publicly available information in the market and that the price changes to new equilibrium levels are reflections of that information. The book checks the weak-form and semi-strong form efficiency of the Indian stock market by examining the behaviour of the stock prices in the Indian stock market after the introduction of the various financial sector reforms using different methodologies. By using NSE data over the period 1998-2005 - the period which witnessed some major crises, scams, intense capital market activities and introduction of many new financial instruments - the study examines the information contents of historical stock price data, quarterly earnings announcements, and stock splits. The book also checks for the presence of the Day-of- the- Week Effect in the Indian stock market and enquires whether the introduction of the various instruments and policy changes have made the Indian stock market weak-form and semi-strong form efficient i.e., whether the efficiency of the stock market has been restored in the post-reforms period compared to the situation in the pre-reform period.

Book Strategic Risk

    Book Details:
  • Author : James M. Collins
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461313112
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Strategic Risk written by James M. Collins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Risk examines a fundamental issue in the field of strategic management and organizations: how to study changes in the competitive outcomes of firms. Collins and Ruefli develop the concept of ordinal risk and extend this concept and its associated measures to the more general framework of state-defined systems. The book makes the state-defined risk methodology more accessible to strategic management researchers, and to social scientists in general. The need for quantitative frameworks with which to analyze the dynamics of strategic management has been apparent for some time. The state-defined risk methodology has the advantage of being based on a common usage definition of risk, and is also based on a mathematically well-behaved function. It permits investigation of the chance of gain while yielding a measure of environmental uncertainty. Finally, the development is general and permits applications employing a variety of performance dimensions over a range of entities in a diversity of contexts. The authors demonstrate the practicability and reliability of this approach by applying the model to mutual funds, large mining and manufacturing firms, and public firms on an industry by industry basis.

Book International Financial Management

Download or read book International Financial Management written by Arthur I. Stonehill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: