Majority coalitions are formed such that they can redistribute incomes to their favour. When inequality is to be increased in the interest of some, coalition partners must be found by compensation schemes. Compensation minimisation is shown to lead to the coalition partners being either a...

This paper investigates producer-consumer price volatility in four meat markets in Greece: beef, lamb, pork and poultry. The methodology followed in this paper to measure price volatility is that of the diagonal VEC (DVEC) model of Bollerslev et al. (1988) while that of decomposing the estimated...

This paper examines the time-series relation between the price-earnings (P/E) multiple and market volatility for the G-7 markets. If investors are risk-averse agents and demand a higher required rate of return to take on more risk, then we should expect P/E to be inversely related to volatility....