The impact of time duration between trades on the price of treasury note futures contracts

Recent research in finance has indicated that the institutional structure in which financial asset prices are determined can have a nontrivial impact on pricing. This report examines transaction level data for Treasury Note futures contracts traded at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) to identify institutional, or market microstructure, impacts on the pricing of these contracts. Relatively few articles have conducted empirical research on the microstructure of U.S. futures trading due to the limited availability of comprehensive transaction level data from the futures exchanges. This report uses the CBOT's Computerized Trade Reconstruction database, a comprehensive transaction level dataset, to identify the price impact of the time duration between trades in a manner analogous to that of A. Dufour and R. F. Engle (2000). Unique differences from prior research include the application to futures contracts with their relative higher frequency of trading, as well as the investigation of the price impact of the number of active traders present on the trading floor and the trading volume. Subsequent price and sign of trade significantly relate to the time duration between trades, the number of floor brokers, and the trading volume. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl. Fut Mark 24:965–980, 2004     

半导体存储器及发展趋势

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新形势下施工企业管理理念探讨

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浅谈集邮业务的个性化服务

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An investigation of transformation-based prediction interval for the Weibull median life

Statistical inference based on the Weibull distribution, a distribution widely used in reliability and survival analysis, is usually difficult as it often involves numerical computation and approximation. However, this distribution can be transformed to near-normality by a simple power transformation. Based on this transformation, a prediction interval (PI) for its median can be easily constructed through an inverse transformation. The procedure for selecting the best power transformation through minimizing Kullback-Leibler information is described. The property of this transformation-based PI is investigated. Simple correction factors are also proposed. It is shown that the transformation-based PI with corrections performs well, irrespective of the sample size and parameter values. Simulation results show that the new PI generally outperforms the existing PI. Numerical examples are given for illustration.     

水压作用下房屋地下室底板开裂的结构处理

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预应力拱支双层网壳的静力性能研究

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中国金融业分业经营与混业经营研究

实践表明，混业经营有助于增强金融机构的国际竞争力，促进一国经济的发展，目前已成为全球金融业发展的趋势。就我国而言，从长远的角度来看，混业经营是金融业的必然选择，但短期内尚不具备过渡的条件。由于我国已加入WTO，所以目前应抓住机遇，采取相应的对策，为将来混业经营作好准备。     

美国版权证券化的困境析

鲍伊债券在美国开启了知识产权证券化的大门,一度兴盛,但现在呈现困顿状态,原因主要有五个,其中版权所有权和版权担保权益公示问题是困扰版权证券化的主因。理清这些原因,有助于我们理性看待版权证券化本身及其在中国的发展前景。     

科技创新与国防R&D激励——基于委托代理框架的博弈分析

国防R&D是国防科技创新的源泉.国防R & D活动存在着复杂的委托代理关系,导致分摊成本和信息租金的增加.本文用委托代理理论框架对国防R & D行为主体进行激励分析,通过构建政府与军队、军队与企业在信息不对称条件下的博弈模型,揭示国防R & D活动运行的内在机理以及投资低效的深层次原因,进而对国防R & D活动激励机制进行了针对性设计,提出了一些有意义的对策性思考.