Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- TOOLS FOR CHANGE: AN EXAMINATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND ITS PRESURSOR STEPS IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS -- CREATING A LEARNING CLIMATE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY -- GENDER EQUALITY FOR LEARNING LEADERSHIP IN UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOLS -- MEASURING THE...

In this research, we develop a set of new measures to evaluate the data flow in the U.S. equity exchanges using Level I order book data. The quantities we develop and use to summarize trading activity are: the activity-weighted spread and the activity-weighted return. We study the distribution...

The investment fund replication techniques and related financial product have been developed in recent years. It is understood that investing in the replicated fund can help investors gain similar returns without suffering drawbacks of the target fund. However, it is difficult to produce...

This paper presents a new financial market simulator that may be used as a tool in both industry and academia for research in market micro-structure. It allows multiple automated traders and/or researchers to simultaneously connect to an exchange-like environment, where they are able to...

Liquidity is one of the crucial factors in economy which reflects smooth operation of the markets. In a liquid market, traders are able to transact large quantities of security quickly with minimal trading cost and price impact. Many researchers have investigated the relationship between market...

Long term memory effects in stock market indices that represent internationally diversified stocks are analyzed in this paper and the results are compared with the S&P 500 index. The Hurst exponent and the Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) technique are the tools used for this analysis. The...

The empirical relationship between the return of an asset and the volatility of the asset has been well documented in the financial literature. Named the leverage e ffect or sometimes risk-premium effect, it is observed in real data that, when the return of the asset decreases, the volatility...

This paper introduces a new methodology for an alternative calculation of market volatility index based on a multinomial tree approximation of a stochastic volatility model. The estimation is performed by constructing synthetic options with consistent properties. Several variants of this index...