Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination, following Meese and Rogoff (1983) have focused upon a narrow set of models. Cheung et al. (2005) augmented the usual suspects with productivity based models, and "behavioral equilibrium exchange rate" models, and assessed performance...

Since circular model was introduced in Salop (1979), it has been the workhorse for analyzing spatial competition among differentiated firms. A common assumption in this literature is that firms are evenly spaced on the circle, even when entry is allowed. We characterize conditions for even...

In this paper, the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) is adopted to measure the total loss of multiple lines of insurance business and two nonparametric estimation methods are introduced to explore the optimal multivariate quota-share reinsurance under a mean-CVaR framework. While almost all the...