We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output growth can be either due to a change in the structure of the economy (a change in the propagation mechanism) or a reduced error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the...

This paper investigates the effect of economic integration on the ability of firms to maintain a collusive understanding about staying out of each other's markets. The paper distinguishes among different types of trade costs: ad valorem, unit, fixed. It is shown that for a sufficient reduction...

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the application of Fourier analyses to pricing standard and exotic options, and discusses three different factors: stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rate and random jump. The modeling of volatility and interest rate falls into...