American Finance Association Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets Author(s): Mark Mitchell, Todd Pulvino, Erik Stafford Source: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 551-584 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2697750 Accessed: 08/01/2010 15:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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May 4, 2013 Joe Rogers, GlobalREACH Capital Markets Blog Post Apple’s $17 billion bond issue dwarfs small business lending Why can't Small Businesses stock up on cheap cash, too? Last week Apple Computer borrowed $17 billion in one day from institutional investors via a very complex offering that demonstrated the depth and efficiency of the global capital market. Stan Schroeder reveals some insights in Mashable about how Apple, in one day, went from being debt-free to having obligations equal
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transaction costs. And at the same time, scientific studies of actual financial behavior have revealed that people consistently make certain mistakes because of lack of knowledge, faulty logic, cognitive dissonance, and biased statistics. The new science of finance has had a profound impact on the practice of institutional risk management.1 Sophisticated enterprisewide risk-management systems are widely used today by financial service firms and a growing number of nonfinancial companies (DeLoach
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efficiency 6 Cross country and market settings difference 6 Appendix 8 References 13 Behavior biases discussed in the article The behavior biases that have been discussed are over-confidence and over-optimism. Those two biases lead investors to overestimate their knowledge, understate the risks and exaggerate their ability to control the situation and hence to trade excessively. Overconfidence about certain signals may cause overreaction and hence phenomena such as the book/market effect and long-run reversals
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equity markets that led to the development of electronic trading, dark pools, and current market structure. We move on to analyze dark pools and their overall impact on trading. We then discuss further aspects of dark pools in particular, and consider regulation and global trends in market structure. Historical Perspective on Equity Markets The first modern equity market was established in the Netherlands in 1610 with the publically traded shares of the Dutch East India Company. Financial transactions
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a treasure chest of $10 billion in cash. (a) Is this a real or financial asset? (b) Is society any richer for the discovery? (c) Are you wealthier? (d) Can you reconcile your answers to (b) and (c)? Is anyone worse off as a result of the discovery? Question 2. Consider Fig. 1.5 in BKM6. (a) Are these American gold certificates primitive or derivative securities? (b) Is the issue being described a primary or secondary market transaction? Question 3. Suppose that you are an executive of
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Financial Intermediation and Credit Policy in Business Cycle Analysis∗ 1 Introduction To motivate interest in a paper on financial factors in business fluctuations it use to be necessary to appeal either to the Great Depression or to the experiences of many emerging market economies. This is no longer necessary. Over the past few years the United States and much of the industrialized world have experienced the worst financial crisis of the post-war. The global recession that has followed
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CASE STUDY HOMEWORK CORPORATE FINANCE 1 The Situation: In 2010 a new company was created in order to enter into the food industry. They spent many months in studying the market, engineering the products and the commercial strategy, find out the production plants. At the end of 2010 the business plan is ready and the company has already participated to an exhibition where many potential customers said to be very interested to the project. The problem: A private equity institution gets in touch
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Tony Loton STOP ORDERS A practical guide to using stop orders for traders and investors Hh Stop Orders A practical guide to using stop orders for traders and investors by Tony Loton HARRIMAN HOUSE LTD 3A Penns Road Petersfield Hampshire GU32 2EW GREAT BRITAIN Tel: +44 (0)1730 233870 Fax: +44 (0)1730 233880 Email: enquiries@harriman-house.com Website: www.harriman-house.com First edition published in Great Britain in 2009 by Harriman House. Copyright © Harriman House Ltd The right
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15% | 1.8687 | The Portfolio Beta | 0.6552 | * The beta of the portfolio is 0.6552, which is less than 1. It means the risk of the portfolio is less than market risk. 2. Compute the number of contracts * Choose the maximum portfolio loss: Considering the beta of the portfolio as well as the expectation of drop in the market in March, we decide that the maximum portfolio loss level is 5%. * Identify the
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