In the paper, we propose a new calculation scheme for American options in the framework of a forward backward stochastic dierential equation (FBSDE). The well-known decomposition of an American option price with that of a European option of the same maturity and the remaining early exercise...

This is a translation of Cassel's "Socialpolitik"(1902). Today this book is almost forgotten even in Sweden. But it had a great influence on public opinion in those days. We should pay attention to following four points in Cassel's discussion in this book. 1) Cassel criticizes (Manchester)...

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, management, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than...

<p>In this article, we propose tests for covariance matrices of high dimension with fewer observations than the dimension for a general class of distributions with positive definite covariance matrices. In one-sample case, tests are proposed for sphericity and for testing the hypothesis that the...</p>