We examine stock market volatility before and after the introduction of equity index futures trading in twenty-five countries, using various models that account for asynchronous data, conditional heteroskedasticity, asymmetric volatility responses, and the joint dynamics of each country’s index with the world market portfolio. We find that futures trading is related to an increase in conditiona...

Preliminary draft Not for attribution Comments welcome Current drafts of this paper and the associated computer programs and data will be posted to my web site: All errors are my own responsibility. Abstract / Summary The market for US equity indexes has traditionally comprised floor-traded index futures contracts and the individual markets for the component stocks. This picture has been altere...

agricultural activities are risky activities. in these activities, various natural, social and economic risks have created fragile and vulnerable situation for producers. price risk in agricultural products has caused financial problems for many producers and farmers. to deal with these price risks and price fluctuations, there are varieties of tools. this paper focused on futures markets instr...

The increasing interest in financial innovation of enterprises has heightened the need for the knowledge of accurate pricing for derivatives in actual discrete-time incomplete market, especially for futures, the most actively traded derivatives in China. Nevertheless, even contingent claim pricing in such markets have few previous researches concentrated on, quite apart from futures. This paper...

There has been recently an increasing interest in Grid services and economic-aware Grid systems both in the industry and the academia. In this paper we specify a market for hardware providers and consumers interested in leasing Grid resources for a time period. Our approach comprises a stockmarket like mechanism that enables the trading of computational power on the basis of a spot and a future...

Even when participants know very little about their environment, the market itself, by serving as a selection process of information, promotes an efficient aggregate outcome. To emphasize the role of the market and the importance of natural selection rather than the strategic actions of participants, an evolutionary model of a commodity futures market is presented, in which there is a continual...