The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is a set of vital benchmark interest rates to which hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts are tied. The rates are set each day via a survey of large banks. In recent years, strange behavior of the rates have caused observers to question...

We consider competition among n sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products to a buyer having limited slots (or shelf space). We study how bundling affects competition for slots. When the buyer has k number of slots, efficiency requires the slots to be allocated to the best...

Web domain names represent the gateway to Internet connections and access to specific websites. Their value depends on several parameters, as Web traffic or search engines, and is typically calculated with “quick and dirt” algorithms freely available on the Web. The value of a web domain...

As an illustrative example of a trading strategy, we consider in detail an investment strategy, titled “The Bounce Basket”, designed for someone to express a bullish view on the market by allowing them to take long positions on securities that would benefit the most from a rally in the...