The fast development in computing and communication has strongly changed the dynamics of financial markets. More people are trading online through the Web instead of using full-service brokerages. Many online financial services have given investors new opportunities to trade stocks and access real-time market information efficient way. But, very few investors in UAE are familiar and use these s...

Restructuring in electric power sectors took a significant step backward in the summer of 2000 when wholesale and retail markets in California experienced staggering price increases that continued through June of 2001. During this period, California suppliers neared bankruptcy and one went into bankruptcy, as did the state’s cornerstone market institution, the California Power Exchange. While t...

This paper develops a framework for integrating contract markets with spot markets using tradable options for capacity. Sellers and Buyers may either contract for delivery in advance (the \contracting" option) or they may sell and buy some or all of their output/input in a spot market. Contract pricing involves both a reservation fee per unit of capacity and an execution fee per unit of output ...

In our work the focus is on emergent behaviour in large groups of stock market participants. We do not assume that market participants take rational investment decisions based on full information as would be the case in established views of the capital market. Consequently, the market is not modelled top-down with mathematical equations. Instead, trading decisions and market behaviour are the r...

T paper develops a framework for analyzing business-to-business (B2B) transactions and supply chain management based on integrating contract procurement markets with spot markets using capacity options and forwards. The framework is motivated by the emergence of B2B exchanges in several industrial sectors to facilitate such integrated contract and spot procurement. In the framework developed, a...

Information markets are markets created to aggregate information. Such markets usually estimate a probability distribution over the values of certain variables, via bets on those values. Combinatorial information markets would aggregate information on the entire joint probability distribution over many variables, by allowing bets on all variable value combinations. To achieve this, we want to o...