Financial markets, innovation and regulation

Pareto Improving Financial Innovation in Incomplete Markets

Financial innovation in an existing asset generically supports a Pareto improvement, targeting the income effect. This result, as several on taxation, owes to one unifying notion: that an intervention generically supports Pareto improvements if the implied price adjustment is sufficiently sensitive to the economy’s risk aversion. Elul (1995) and Cass and Citanna (1998) introduce financial innov...

Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions

New security designs, improvements in computer and telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and uses a series of examples to illustrate the breadth and depth of institutional change that is likel...

Dynamic Correlation between Oil Markets and Financial Markets and Oil and Petrochemical Industries in Iran

In this paper we study the effect of volatility in Brent oil prices on the important indices of financial markets in Iran, as well as the return on gold, from 2008 to 2018 using the Multivariate Exponential GARCH Model (MVEGARCH). We also use the ADCC-FIGARCH model to examine the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation between Brent oil prices and financial markets in Iran. The results of th...

FINANCIAL STRUCTURE, SAVING AND GROWTH: SAFETY NETS, REGULATION, AND RISK REDUCTION IN GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS By

Financial Structure, Saving and Growth: Safety Nets, Regulation, and Risk Reduction in Global Financial Markets