This paper attempts to assess the performance of various credit cooperatives operating in different districts and regions of Maharashtra with the extension to evaluating the viability of these institutions in forward and backward regions of the state. In this study, the credit cooperatives...

This paper presents a general, nonlinear model for term structure interest rate. The approach is the same of Stanton (1997) but it has been extended to a multifactor model. The novel aspect is that rather than choosing the functional specification of the model, the process is generated from the...

This paper uses both unconditional and conditional risk analysis to investigate the day-of-the-week effect in 21 emerging stock markets. In addition, risk is allowed to vary across the days of the week. Different models produce different results but overall day-of-the-week effects are present...

In this paper we use an affine asset pricing model to jointly value stocks and bonds. This enables us to derive endogenous correlations and to explain how economic fundamentals influence the correlation between stock and bond returns. The presented model is implemented for G7 post- war economies...

We analyze a problem of maximization of expected terminal wealth and consumption under constraints in a general framework including financial models with constrained portfolios, labor income and large investor models. By using general optional decomposition under constraints in a multiplicative...

We use mutual fund recommendations to test whether editorial content is independent from advertisers’ influence in the financial media. We find that major personal finance magazines (Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and SmartMoney) are more likely to recommend funds from families that...

Japanese financial policies during the so called High Growth Period (HGP-roughly 1953-1973) stand at sharp contrast with the presumptions of the financial liberalization literature. Against the Japanese example, McKinnon (1991) and Horiuchi (1984) have argued, based on relatively high interest...

During 1997 Bulgaria has experienced one of the most deep financial crises in CEE countries. The combination with currency crisis, widespread bank failures, hyperinflation and government crisis has a very negative affect over the whole Bulgarian economy. Parallel with the introduction of...

Starting from the European option valuation framework of Chauveau & Gatfaoui (2002), we establish the link with stochastic volatility models. And, we propose both a new vision and a general framework for valuing European options in the light of systematic and idiosyncratic risks affecting risky...