nowadays reforming, of the ownership structure, from governmental ownership to privatization ownership, is a way of gaining constant and dynamic development. one of the best ways of privatization is denoting stocks by stock change and one of the most important factors to reach its fulfillment is how to price the denoted stocks. so far due to the importance and greatness of pricing stocks, many ...

T he measurement of the " average " price of common stocks is a matter of widespread interest. Investors want to know how " the market " is doing, and to be able to compare their returns with a meaningful benchmark. Money managers often have their compensation tied to performance, typically measured by comparing their results to a benchmark portfolio, so they and their clients are interested in...

This is an introduction to the special section on the economic theory of bubbles. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Asset markets around the world are very volatile. Two most important asset markets are the stock market and the housing market. Fig. 1 presents the US and the Japanese real stock market indices (S&P 500 and Nikkei 225).1 This figure shows that the US stock market experienc...

according to stock price excessive volatility in tehran stock exchange, the price limit mechanism is utilized in order to making the price fluctuation narrow and based on the specific periods, the price limit has encountered some variations which price limit has been determined by try and error within these periods and in a short stage of time many modifications existed through the applications...

Authors present the stock price prediction algorithm by using Bayesian network. The present algorithm uses the network twice. First, the network is determined from the daily stock price and then, it is applied for predicting the daily stock price which was already observed. The prediction error is evaluated from the daily stock price and its prediction. Second, the network is determined again f...

This paper examines how an option plan that rewards managers for firm performance relative to some market or industry benchmark should be structured. Relativeperformance-based compensation advocates contend that conventional stock options do not adequately discriminate between strong and weak managers, typically suggesting “indexed options,” that is, options with an exercise price linked to a m...

We used a no-arbitrage, cost-of-carry pricing model to examine whether equity spot and futures markets are cointegrated. A stock index and its futures price should be cointegrated if the cost of carry is stationary. Otherwise, the appropriate cointegrating relationship is trivariate. We found that the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, associated futures series, and interest rate are all nonstation...