After the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007, severe fire sales of assets in the financial sector are accompanied by a rise in the volatility of asset returns in the non-financial firms. To account for their co-movements, I develop a model that highlights the interaction between the financial health of the banking sector and the volatility of asset returns. The novel feature of the model is...

We establish several new findings on the relation between open interest in commodity markets and asset returns. High commodity market activity, as measured by high open-interest growth, predicts high commodity returns and low bond returns. Openinterest growth is a more powerful and robust predictor of commodity returns than other known predictors such as the short rate, the yield spread, the ba...

BACKGROUND Universal health coverage is high on national health agendas of many countries at the moment. Absence of financial hardship is a key component of universal health coverage and should be monitored regularly. However, relevant household survey data, which is traditionally needed for this analysis is not frequently collected in most countries and in some countries, has not been collecte...

Knowledge Management represents a crucial component of corporations’ efforts to gain competitive advantage from targeted re-use of knowledge assets. Companies that provide consulting services depend heavily on developing, selling, and applying ideas. They need to organize and structure intellectual property for efficient and effective re-use. In this paper, we discuss the RFP Responder, a proto...

We characterize the structure of Nash equilibria for a certain class of asset market games. In equilibrium, different assets have different returns, and (risk neutral) investors with different wealth hold portfolios with different structures. In equilibrium, an asset’s return is inversely related to the elasticity of its supply. The larger an investor, the more diversified is his portfolio. Sma...

As the dependence structure (i.e. the copula) among the assets is ...xed, one might think that the riskier the assets, the riskier the portfolio. Surprisingly enough, this conjecture turns out to be false even for coherent risk measures and normal returns. We show that two conditions are able to preserve risk ordering under the portfolio: convexity for the risk measure and conditional increasin...


 The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects company size, profitability, liquidity, capital structure, and firm value. population in listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2018 2021 consumes beverages food subsector. Using a purposive sampling strategy, research model generated 48 sample data from 12 companies chosen as samples. ROA used proxy for profitability by dividin...

We propose a new market structure, a supply-lock competition (SLC), for analyzing transactions of investable goods. This study explains and analyzes how the SLC is applicable for transactions of stock, art, real estate, currency, and scarce goods. We suggest that the formation and fluctuation of the market price for these investable assets are not only related to their intrinsic values or inves...