Financial Market Index Reform Dilemmas

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

Financial Reform Begins at Home

Recent scandals have called our attention to an issue, financial reporting, that we all know, privately at least, is long overdue. The issue goes far beyond fraud, as more and more financial statements require correction. Indeed, many, if not all, financial operations within corporations and government both cost far too much and do not produce the desired result. Reforms led by Congress, Attorn...

Financial Market Prediction

Given financial data from popular sites like Yahoo and the London Exchange, the presented paper attempts to model and predict stocks that can be considered ”good investments”. Stocks are characterized by 125 features ranging from gross domestic product to EDIBTA, and are labeled by discrepancies between stock and market price returns. An artificial neural network (Self-Organizing Map) is fitted...

Financial Market Runs

Our paper offers a minimalist model of a run on a financial market. The prime ingredient is that each risk-neutral investor fears having to liquidate after a run, but before prices can recover back to fundamental values. During the run, only the risk-averse market-making sector is willing to absorb shares. To avoid having to possibly liquidate shares at themarginal post-run price—in which case ...

Financial Market Regulation