information is incorporated into prices. 2. (Arbitrage and the Law of One Price) Arbitrage is a type of investment transaction that seeks to profit when identical goods are priced differently. Buying an item at one price and immediately selling it at another is a type of arbitrage. Because of the combined activities of arbitrageurs‚ identical goods‚ primarily financial assets‚ cannot sell for different prices for long. This is the law of one price. Arbitrage helps make our markets efficient by assuring
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1. Explain the concept of locational arbitrage and the scenario necessary for it to be plausible. ANSWER: Locational arbitrage can occur when the spot rate of a given currency varies among locations. Specifically‚ the ask rate at one location must be lower than the bid rate at another location. The disparity in rates can occur since information is not always immediately available to all banks. If a disparity does exist‚ locational arbitrage is possible; as it occurs‚ the spot rates
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by appointment 3 / 27 Tentative Course Outline (Part 1) Wk Date Topic 1 2 8/22 8/27 8/29 9/3 9/5 9/10 9/12 9/17 9/19 9/24 9/26 10/1 10/3 10/8 Introduction Futures markets‚ Hedging using futures Interest rates Curve fitting Pricing of forwards and futures Interest rate futures Swaps Introduction to options markets Properties of options Trading strategie involving options Introduction to binomial trees From discrete to continuous time Black-Scholes-Merton
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Technical Analyst Press after each command to run the function * Denotes a single-security function ** Denotes a multiple-security function Charts Overview Technical Indicators - Historical GRAPH GEDU CHART *IRSI *MACD *TAS *DMI *ROC *CMCI *WLPR *BOLL *GOC *GPF *PTPS *MAE *GM *CHKO *GPCA *CNDL *KAOS *MCCL *OBV *PIVG Charts main menu Charts education Chart stories Chart News and Seminars NI TA All technical analysis news NI Bloomberg technical strategy
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Microeconomics" (Oaktree‚ 2005) This paper will define and discuss five financial theories and how they impact business decisions made by financial managers. The theories will be the Modern Portfolio Theory‚ Tobin Separation Theorem‚ Equilibrium Theory‚ Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)‚ and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) The Modern portfolio theory {MPT}‚ "proposes how rational investors will use diversification to optimize their portfolios‚ and how an asset should be priced
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BMCF 5103 CORPORATE FINANCE Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh Lecture 1: An Introduction to Corporate Finance Contents What is finance? What is corporate finance? The balance-sheet model of the firm Capital budgeting Capitalstructure The firm and thefinancial markets Forms of business organisation The goals of a corporation Agency relationships: stockholders versusmanagers‚ stockholders versus creditors Managers’ actions to maximise stockholder wealth Financial management
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MARKET DEFINITION AND MARKET POWER IN COMPETITION ANALYSIS The Economic and Social Review‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 4‚ October‚ 2000‚ pp. 309-328 309 Market Definition and Market Power in Competition Analysis: Some Practical Issues PATRICK MASSEY* Competition Authority Abstract: Market definition plays a key role in competition analysis and has often proved controversial. However‚ it is merely a means to an end‚ the real issue being to establish whether or not firms have significant market power
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A Computational Methodology for Modelling the Dynamics of Statistical Arbitrage Andrew Neil Burgess Decision Technology Centre Department of Decision Sciences A thesis submitted to the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL 1 October 1999 To my parents‚ Arnold and Carol. © A. N. Burgess‚ 1999 2 3 Acknowledgements Thanks to my supervisor‚ Paul Refenes‚ for bringing me to LBS‚ keeping me in bread and
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CDO • Introduction to CDOs • Types of CDOs • Transaction Structure & Mechanics • Evaluation of CDOs • Risk associated with Investing in CDOs • Fair spread estimation with Monte Carlo Simulation • CASE STUDY: HVB ASSET MANAGEMENT ASIA (HVBAM) • CDO in Subprime Mortgage Crisis Introduction to Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) A CDO is an asset-backed security whose underlying collateral is typically a portfolio of bonds (corporate or
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is trading for a price of $1034.74. a. What is the bond’s yield to maturity (expressed as an APR with semiannual compounding)? b. If the bond’s yield to maturity changes to 9% APR‚ what will the bond’s price be? 6-10. Suppose a seven-year‚ $1000 bond with an 8% coupon rate and semiannual coupons is trading with a yield to maturity of 6.75%. a. Is this bond currently trading at a discount‚ at par‚ or at a premium? Explain. b. If the yield to maturity of the bond rises to 7% (APR with semiannual compounding)
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