J O I N T C E N T E R AEI-BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER FOR REGULATORY STUDIES The Antitrust Economics of Two-sided Markets David S. Evans Related Publication 02-13 September 2002 David Evans is Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting. The author is extremely grateful to Howard Chang, George Priest, Jean-Charles Rochet, Richard Schmalensee, and Jean Tirole for many helpful comments and suggestions and Irina Danilkina, Anne Layne-Farrar, Daniel Garcia Swartz, Bryan Martin-Keating, Nese Nasif
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memory theory on China's stock market return volatility analysis. The stock market is full of uncertainty. The stock market volatility is normal, moderate price wave motion is beneficial to improve market liquidity and activity, but the acuteness wave motion will destroy the market stability and investor confidence. China's stock market is an emerging market, the market fluctuation characteristic of high risk is particularly prominent. Therefore, to our country stock market fluctuation characteristic
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Business Finance Summary Business Finance, Investors, Firms and Markets • Investments in assets are important because assets generate the cash flows that are needed to meet operating expenses and provide a return to owners of the business. • Financing decisions involved generating funds internally or form external sources to the business. Such as by issuing debt or equity securities. • Financing charges amount to non-operating cash flows • The required rate of return caters for the costs
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Monitoring Financial Market The market where securities are sold and purchase is called financial market. Financial System The system in which the surplus and deficit which meets together for their mutual benefits. e.g. Bank loan. Surplus Unit The units which have excess money. Deficit Unit The units which need money. Financial Intermediaries The bank, person or party, financial institution which act as a middle man between surplus and deficit units are called financial intermediaries
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company’s shareholder wealth is equal to the number of shrares outstanding times market value per share. * We need to know what factors affect the stock price. * The value of a share of stock is the present value of the cash flows an “average investor” expects to receive in the future id he or she bought the stock. * Long-term view important. Market price VS intrinsic value Stock’s market price: actual market price of the share of stock. Value based on perceived returns and risk. (could
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or crowd, behavior trends and reverses in recognizable patterns. Using stock market data as his main research tool, Elliott discovered that the ever-changing path of stock market prices reveals a structural design that in turn reflects a basic harmony found in nature. From this discovery, he developed a rational system of market analysis. Elliott isolated thirteen patterns of movement, or "waves," that recur in market price data and are repetitive in form, but are not necessarily repetitive in
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Trading Strategies 1. Based on the Dicky-Fuller stationary test the pair is not a promising pair. The statistic is 2.51, which is not promising 2. 3. Pairs Trading Strategy a. On the spread sheet columns E,F,G (PEP) and NOP(KO) are the various normalized N-day returns for the two stocks (N ranges from 5, 10, and 20 days). b. Column HIJ and QRS are c. Finally the differences between the z normalized returns are expressed in columns TUV (For example: T=zret5_pepsi
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Chapter 15: Understanding Accounting and Financial Statements Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to identify some of the concepts of Understanding Accounting and Financial Statements in the business world. Learning objectives 1. Explain the functions of accounting, and identify the three basic activities involving accounting. 2. Describe he roles played by public, management, government, and not-for-profit accountants. 3. Identify the foundations of the accounting system
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WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? Answer: The cost of capital refers to the maximum rate of return a firm must earn on its investment so that the market value of company's equity shares will not drop. This is a consonance with the overall firm's objective of wealth maximization. WACC is a calculation of a firm's cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionately weighted. All capital
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Financial Markets Table of Contents Introduction 1 Overall Canadian Economy 1 Equity Market Analysis: 2 Bond Market 3 Money Market 4 Portfolio Allocation 5 Risk Analysis 5 Appendix 1: 6 Appendix 2: 6 Appendix 3: 9 Introduction The objective of this paper is to determine how market institutional portfolio managers should properly allocate their funds amongst the different financial markets. We will focus only on the Canadian money, bond and stock markets over the
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