A Note on Simple Strategic Bargaining for Models of Money or Credit

Many papers on liquidity have bilateral trade with buyers constrained by their money holdings or debt limits. Axiomatic bargaining, typically Nash, determines the terms of trade. However, there are reasons to prefer strategic bargaining. I analyze a bargaining game that is useful in models of liquidity. Advantages include (i) it has simple microfoundations, both in and out of steady state; (ii) it is more tractable than Nash, but the outcomes share interesting features; (iii) the benchmark version is consistent with axiomatic approaches in the literature, while another version is not, but can still be used; and (iv) it is arguably realistic.     

关于Riemann可积性的注记

本文用测度论讨论了一元非连续函数的可积性,给出了一元非连续函数Riemann可积的充分条件.     

A Note on Interaction between Financial Markets

This paper investigates the interaction between thestock market and the stock option market. When thepredictions of the future stock price distributionsare different between markets,there is a chance that the option pricing method ofBlack and Scholes with its application to anarbitrage trading strategy may lead to substantialmarket turmoil. We will also investigatethe conditions of market stability.     

A Note on Computation of Implied Volatility

This is a note on computation of the implied volatility in theBlack–Scholes formula to evaluate an accuracy of the computation.     

A Note on Deductible Insurance and Production

This paper examines the optimal production decision of a firm facing revenue risk. We show that the purchase of actuarially fair deductible insurance unambiguously induces the firm to produce more if the firm is not only risk averse but also prudent. If the firm's perferences satisfy constant absolute risk aversion, buying actuarially unfair deductible insurance unambiguously enhances production should the positive loading factor be sufficiently small. When there are moral hazard problems in that the firm's output cannot be contracted upon, we show that the purchase of actuarially fair deductible insurance unambiguously induces the firm to produce more if the firm's utility function is quadratic.     

致读者——关于期刊有关情况的说明

关于有读者反映不能如期收到期刊的问题．近期我们作了期刊有关情况的汇总和调研．特向广大读者汇报如下：     

Derivation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model without Normality or Quadratic Preference: A Note

Derivation of the capital asset pricing model requires various assumptions including normality or quadratic preference. The objective of this note is to show that the normality or quadratic preference assumption can be replaced by the fair game condition that assets' residual returns have zero mean conditional upon the return of the market portfolio.     

A Note on Compound Generalized Distributions: A Comment on the Article by B. Kling and M. Goovaerts

Abstract

In this paper, the recursion for Generalized Power Series Distributions (GPSD) recently developed by Kling & Goovaerts (1993) is reviewed. Some errors are discovered in their results. Corrected and slightly more general results are proposed here.     

Reflections on Amernic and Craig: A Note

Amernic and Craig (2004 ) propose the impossibility of anything other than a binary divide between moral absolutism and relativism. Campbell (1992 ) is drawn on to support this; however, it is revealed here that it cannot be used in this way. While Amernic and Craig leave the arguments as to the inevitability of this binary divide at this juncture, their discussion of the possibilities for accounting education reform offers the prospect of an alternative to relativism that avoids moral absolutism. More fortunately, Campbell's book provides the theoretical arguments necessary to rebut both absolutism and relativism. This rejoinder observes that, in reviewing the history of accounting, Amernic and Craig drew heavily on the work of Raymond Chambers, a critic of current accounting practice. In many works he demonstrated its failure to produce data comparability when complying with current accounting standards to report the values of assets, debts and income. For Chambers, truth in accounting (and ultimately data comparability) is found by the rigorous application of scientific rules. Introducing students to his persuasive arguments would be a very effective way of helping them understand the fragile and disputed nature of truth in accounting. But students should also be introduced to the arguments of those such as Gaffiikin, who believe there are limits to the extent that accounting can be based on objective facts (2000). To allow them simply to accept the orthodoxy of the day not only fails to prepare their minds ( Clarke, 1996 ), it also allows relativism into our classrooms. Students who can grapple with truth in accounting can then start addressing ethical truth. We must take our students beyond professional rules of conduct. A goal outlined in the article should be to teach them to treat the readers of financial statements with, as Campbell puts it, 'integrity and insight' (p. 438).     

A Note on Forward Price and Forward Measure

The forward measure is convenient in calculating various contingent claim prices under stochastic interest rates. We demonstrate that caution needs to be drawn when the forward measure is used to price contingent claims that involve multiple cash flows. We also derive partial different equations for the forward price to demonstrate how forward contracts can be used for dynamic hedging and how hedges can be conducted if the payoff of a contingent claim depends on the forward price.     

关于出口税收筹划定量分析模型的一点说明--兼与王琳女士商榷

笔者于1 997年发表<出口税收筹划的定量分析>一文,①由于是尝试性的,所以难免出现一些错误的东西,还需要进一步完善.王琳女士近期发表的文章<对出口货物按离岸价计算免、抵、退税额的若干思考--兼与陈红伟一文商榷>②,使笔者受益匪浅,更得到了不少启发.不过,王琳女士对笔者文章的几点评议,却值得讨论,特复之,以求共识.     

A Note on Intertemporal Fiscal Competition and Redistribution

This paper studies fiscal competition among jurisdictions in a dynamic framework, where the degree of mobility of private capital across jurisdictions boundaries is perfect. The optimal tax on mobile capital is a source tax that taxes away factor rents. Further we show that taxation of mobile capital can redistribute income in favor of the immobile factor labor. This is because the factor rents generated by public inputs and appropriated by mobile capital exceed the efficient level of public expenditure for investments. JEL Code: H21, H23, H42, H71     

A Note on Perceptions of Finance Journal Quality

Finance journal quality is a critical issue for faculty annual elevations, for the tenure and promotion process, and for the administration of faculty workload plans. Unlike other studies that use objective measures (such as citation frequencies) to rate journals, this study focuses on the opinions of chairpersons about the relative quality of 55 finance, insurance, and real estate journals. A sample of 218 finance department chairpersons at AACSB accredited business schools were surveyed, and 125 responses were received (57.34% response rate). Besides overall aggregate scores, responses are segregated and tested for differences across several dimensions. The results offer interesting and current insight on general perceptions of journal quality.     

票据保证责任的法律分析

票据保证制度是汇票、本票、支票三种票据共同具有的一种世界通用的法律制度。票据保证的目的是加强票据付款的确定性、增加票据的信用度,促进票据流通,简化市场经济活动的结算程序。票据保证责任比民法保证责任要重,具有其独特的特性。文中全面分析了票据保证和民法保证的区别,票据保证成立的条件和票据保证人的责任范围,并指出了我国相关法律的不足。     

A Note from the Editor

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