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PDF Ebook Option Trading and Oil Futures Markets

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Ebook Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets

Submitted by puput on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 03:16

The high volatility of the venture capital industry is well documented. This volatility manifests itself in a number of ways: the funds flowing to venture capital firms, the investments firms make in portfolio companies, and the financial performance of portfolio companies and venture capital firms (Gompers and Lerner, 2004). Much of this volatility appears to be tied to valuations in public equity markets. An increase in IPO valuations leads venture capital firms to raise more funds (Gompers and Lerner, 1998b; Jeng and Wells, 2000), an effect that is particularly strong among younger venture capital firms (Kaplan and Schoar, 2005). Moreover, returns of venture capital funds appear to be highly correlated with the returns on the market as a whole (Cochrane, 2005; Kaplan and Schoar, 2005; Ljundqvist and Richardson, 2003).

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Ebook Comovements and Contagion in Emergent Markets: Stock Indexes Volatilities

Submitted by puput on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 02:54

The aim of this paper is to investigate, and possibly to explain, how the financial crises observed during the last decade spillover across countries. Of particular interest is why some of the crises, which begin as country specific events, quickly spread over countries and regions like Latin America. This type of codependence has been named, at least within the financial econometrics community, contagion.

The empirical literature for testing whether contagion exists is extensive, as it is the various ways it has been defined. Among the available strategies to evaluate contagion only two will mentioned in this paper. The most common strategy contrasts the correlation in returns between two markets during a stable period with the same correlation after the occurrence of some shock. The other approach is due to using GARCH models to make inference about the variance-covariance transmission mechanism across countries. Forbes and Rigobon (2000) and Edward and Susmel (2000) are central to understand those alternatives classes of models. Particularly in the latter, interest rate volatility for a group of Latin American countries were examined based on weekly data from 1994 up to 1999. Both conclude that the results are not overly supportive of contagion stories. An alternative approach was proposed by Agénon, Aizenman and Hoffmaister (1998) in studying the effects of contagion on bank lending spreads and output fluctuations in Argentina. The effects of a positive historical shock in the external interest rate spread were analyzed using generalized impulse response functions in the context of a VAR model relating the ex ante bank lending spread, the cyclical component of output , real bank lending rate and external interest rate spread.

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Ebook The Centrality of Money, Credit, and Financial Intermediation in Marx’s Crisis Theory: An Interpretation of Marx’s Methodology

Submitted by wulan on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 07:10

There is a striking paradox that confronts the reader of that part of the modern literature on Marxian crisis theory written in English. On the one hand, it is evident that monetary and financial problems have been and continue to be at the very center of the recurring economic crises that have afflicted most capitalist economies in the past fifteen to twenty years. These economies have experienced roller-coaster inflation, secular stagnation, domestic credit crunches and recurring waves of bankruptcy.

Simultaneously, the international financial system that guided the general prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s has broken down, giving way to a decade of unpredictable, disruptive gyrating exchange rates. International debt crises of suffocating magnitude ensnare most of the Third World and a good deal of the Second as well. The business press asks with regularity if an international financial collapse of depression-producing magnitude is very likely, or only moderately likely: the answer changes from time to time.

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