We consider two risk-averse financial agents who negotiate the price of an illiquid indivisible contingent claim in an incomplete semimartingale market environment. Under the assumption that the agents are exponential utility maximizers with non-traded random endowments, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the negotiation to be successful, i.e., for the trade to occur. We, also, study the asymptotic case where the size of the claim is small compared to the random endowments and give a full characterization in this case. We, then, study a partial-equilibrium problem for a bundle of divisible claims and establish its existence and uniqueness. A number of technical results on conditional indifference prices are provided. Finally, we generalize the notion of partial-equilibrium pricing in the case where the agents' risk preferences are modelled by convex capital requirements. / text

Lee Sui Fung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-62). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Declaration --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Table of Contents --- p.iii / List of Illustrations --- p.v / Notation --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1. --- Chapter Preview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Literature Review --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Development of Research on Endogenous Growth Model --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- The Development of Research on Dependent-Economy Model --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.3. --- The Development of Research on Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3. --- Thesis Objectives --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter 1.5. --- Chapter Summary --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Endogenous Growth Model / Chapter 2.1. --- Chapter Preview --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2. --- Theoretical Framework --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3. --- Determination of Macroeconomic Equilibrium --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Static Allocation Conditions --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Macrodynamic Equilibrium --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4. --- Chapter Summary --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Steady-State Equilibrium / Chapter 3.1. --- Chapter Preview --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2. --- Conditions for Steady-State Equilibrium --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Existence and Uniqueness of Balanced Growth Equilibrium --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3. --- Long-Run Adjustment --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4. --- Application of the Model --- p.31 / Chapter 3.4.1. --- Increase in the Costs of Borrowing --- p.31 / Chapter 3.4.2. --- Increase in the Rate of Time Preference --- p.32 / Chapter 3.4.3. --- Increase in Domestic Productivity --- p.33 / Chapter 3.5. --- Chapter Summary --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Transitional Dynamics / Chapter 4.1. --- Chapter Preview --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2. --- Derivation of Transitional Adjustment Paths --- p.35 / Chapter 4.3. --- Characterisation of the Transitional Dynamics --- p.38 / Chapter 4.3.1. --- Increase in the Costs of Borrowing --- p.41 / Chapter 4.3.2. --- Increase in the Rate of Time Preference --- p.43 / Chapter 4.4. --- Chapter Summary --- p.45 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.46 / Appendix1 --- p.52 / Appendix2 --- p.58 / References --- p.59

Frances Cheung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-69). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Appendices --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model with International Borrowing --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Basic Model --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Existence of the Balanced Growth Path --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- "Determination of Steady State Values (u*,k*c*,θ*1)" --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Stability --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- Model with Fixed Asset in Goods Production --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Existence of the Balanoed Growth Path --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- "Determination of Steady States Values (u*, k*, c*, θ*2)" --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Stability --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Comparative Statics --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Transitional Dynamics --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.6 --- Numerical Examples --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- Conlusion --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Modification to Benhabib-Farmer Model --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Model --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3 --- Steady States --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4 --- Condition for Indeterminacy --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- A Necessary Condition --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Necessary and Sufficient Condition --- p.46 / Chapter 3.5 --- Numerical Examples --- p.47 / Chapter 3.6 --- Conclusion --- p.49 / Appendices --- p.54 / References --- p.65

Lam Wing Shing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 33). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Related Works in the Literature --- p.4 / Chapter 3 --- The Model --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Basics --- p.8 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Investment Decision --- p.10 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Public Sector --- p.11 / Chapter 3.4 --- The Constraints Combined --- p.11 / Chapter 4 --- Autarky --- p.13 / Chapter 5 --- The Small Open Economy --- p.15 / Chapter 6 --- The World Economy --- p.19 / Chapter 6.1 --- The World Economy under Symmetric Tax --- p.19 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Symmetric Steady States --- p.19 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Stable Asymmetric Steady States --- p.21 / Chapter 6.2 --- The World Economy under Asymmetric Tax --- p.23 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Stable Steady States under Asymmetric Tax --- p.23 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Discussion --- p.27 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.31 / References --- p.33 / Appendices --- p.34 / Proof of Lemma --- p.34 / Proof of Proposition 2 --- p.36 / Proof of Proposition 3 --- p.40 / Proof of Proposition 4 --- p.43 / Proof of Proposition 5 --- p.46 / Figure 1 - Dynamics - autarky --- p.58 / Figure 2 - Asymmetric tax - autarky --- p.58 / Figure 3 - Dynamics - small open economy --- p.59 / Figure 4 - Asymmetric tax - small open economy --- p.60 / Figure 5 - Asymmetric tax - world economy --- p.60 / Figure 6 - Equality of nations in asymmetric tax --- p.60 / Figure A. 1 for Proof of Proposition 4 --- p.61 / Figure A.2 for Proof of Proposition 5 --- p.61 / Figures A.3-A.4(d) for Proof of Proposition 5 --- p.62 / Figures A.4(e)-A.5 for Proof of Proposition 5 --- p.63

Leung Lok-yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1. --- Introduction and Literature Review --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Methodology --- p.4 / Chapter A. --- Momentum Strategies / Chapter B. --- Relative Strength Indexes / Chapter 3. --- Data --- p.13 / Chapter 4. --- Emirical Findings --- p.15 / Chapter A. --- Momentum Strategies / Chapter B. --- Relative Strength Indexes / Chapter 5. --- Conclusion --- p.37 / Chapter 6. --- Tables --- p.39 / Chapter 7. --- Bibliograhy --- p.70

This dissertation is in the form of one survey paper and three essays on the topic of volatility. The unifying feature that permeates the entire thesis is the focus on the measurement and use of conditional second moment of equities and currencies as a measure of risk for asset pricing and policy purposes in the context of international markets. / The survey examines selected papers from the international finance literature and from the volatility literature with a focus on the theoretical and empirical relationship between first and second unconditional and conditional moments of domestic and international asset returns. It then specifically proposes several areas for investigation related to international finance topics. The first essay investigates the importance of asymmetric volatility when computing the risk premium of international assets. The results indicate that conditional second moment asymmetry is significant and time-varying. They also show that, if the price of risk is time-varying, the world market and foreign exchange risk premia estimated without allowing for time-varying asymmetry are less consistent with the data. Furthermore, they imply that asymmetry is more pronounced when the business condition is such that investors require higher compensation to bear risk. / In the second essay we start from the consideration that financial decision makers often consider the information in currency option valuations when making assessments about future exchange rates. The purpose of this essay is then to systematically assess the quality of option based volatility, interval and density forecasts. We use a unique dataset consisting of over 10 years of daily data on over-the-counter currency option prices. We find that the implied volatilities explain a large share of the variation in realized volatility. Finally, we find that wide-range interval and density forecasts are often misspecified whereas narrow-range interval forecasts are well specified. / In the third essay we examine whether the information contained in various measures of correlation among exchange rates can be used to assess future currency co-movement. We compare option-implied correlation forecasts from a dataset consisting of over 10 years of daily data on over-the-counter currency option prices to a set of return-based correlation measures and assess the relative quality of the correlation forecasts. We find that while the predictive power of implied correlation is not always superior to that of returns based correlations measures, it tends to provide the most consistent results across currencies. Predictions that use both implied and returns-based correlations generate the highest adjusted R2's, explaining up to 42 per cent of the realized correlations.

This dissertation studies topics in Passive Investing and Asset Pricing. The first chapter, "When do flows matter for asset prices: Evidence from adoption of ETF creation in Israel," focuses on the effect of capital allocation to passive investments on asset prices. We study a 2012 reform in Israel where all exchange traded products listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) adopted the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) creation mechanism wherein designated market makers arbitrage between the index price and the net asset value of its benchmark. The reform greatly decreased the cost of this arbitrage activity and translated into a significant increase in demand for passive investments. The effect was stronger for illiquid indices containing smaller stocks. We show that the price effects of the reform were dramatically higher for stocks located at the top of indices composed of smaller stocks relative to stocks at the bottom of indices composed of bigger stocks. A 1 p.p. increase in passive ownership as a percent of market capitalization leads to an 11.7% increase in the price of stocks. Our findings provide new evidence on how passive inflows can change the distribution of capital across indices, and in turn impact price efficiency. In the second chapter, "Passive Investing and Algorithmic Trading," I examine the trading behavior of market participants against the growing demand for passive investing. I show that the growth of passive investing and algorithmic trading is complementary and mutually reinforcing. Algorithmic traders respond to a spike in demand for passive investments listed on the TASE following a major reform in the Israeli index market in 2012 by front-running the index inflows. Algorithmic traders accumulate stocks when index inflows are low and sell stocks when they are high. Based on this strategy, algorithmic traders earn a 12.7% annualized return in realized gains over passive strategies in the same period. Instead, Mutual Funds load on the index when inflows are high.

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Fads models for stocks under asymmetric information in a purely continuous(GBM) market were first studied by P. Guasoni (2006), where optimal portfolios and maximum expected logarithmic utilities, including asymptotic utilities for the informed and uninformed investors, were presented. We generalized this theory to Lâevy markets, where stock prices and the process modeling the fads are allowed to include a jump component, in addition to the usual continuous component. We employ the methods of stochastic calculus and optimization to obtain analogous results to those obtained in the purely continuous market. We approximate optimal portfolios and utilities using the instantaneous centralized and quasi-centralized moments of the stocks percentage returns. We also link the random portfolios of the investors, under asymmetric information to the purely deterministic optimal portfolio, under symmetric information. / by Winston S. Buckley. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Bibliography: leaves 268-272.

by Lee Yue, Wefield. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.I / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.II / Acknowledgement --- p.III / Table of Content --- p.IV / List of Figures --- p.VII / List of Tables --- p.VIII / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Market Monitoring --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Regulatory Framework --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Surveillance Technology --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Cross Market Relationship --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Knowledge Management --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- From Data and Information to Knowledge --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- From Knowledge to Knowledge Management --- p.10 / Chapter 3 --- Market Activities and Market Surveillance --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Overview of Market Structure --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Monetary Market --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Stock and its Derivatives Market --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Futures --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2 --- Cross-Market Activities and Manipulation --- p.20 / Chapter 3.3 --- Monitoring and Surveillance --- p.22 / Chapter 3.4 --- Stock Monitoring Systems --- p.23 / Chapter 4 --- Financial Knowledge Management (FKM) Model --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.27 / Chapter 4.2 --- Knowledge Management cycle --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Information Collection --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Information Storage --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Knowledge Generation --- p.30 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Knowledge Dissemination --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3 --- The 4 levels of FKM --- p.31 / Chapter 5 --- Level 1: Range Detection --- p.32 / Chapter 5.1 --- Basic idea --- p.32 / Chapter 5.2 --- Detection cycle --- p.32 / Chapter 5.3 --- Mathematical Model --- p.32 / Chapter 5.4 --- Knowledge generation --- p.34 / Chapter 6 --- Level 2: Momentum Detection --- p.36 / Chapter 6.1 --- Basic idea --- p.36 / Chapter 6.2 --- Detection cycle --- p.36 / Chapter 6.3 --- Mathematical Model --- p.37 / Chapter 6.4 --- Knowledge generation --- p.38 / Chapter 7 --- Level 3: Case Detection --- p.40 / Chapter 7.1 --- Basic Idea --- p.40 / Chapter 7.2 --- Technical Analysis --- p.40 / Chapter 7.3 --- Details and Characteristics of Chart Patterns --- p.41 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Continuation and Reversal Patterns --- p.41 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Bar Charts --- p.42 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- Different Patterns --- p.42 / Chapter 7.4 --- Mathematical Model --- p.54 / Chapter 7.4.1 --- Smoothing of Data 一 Exponential Smoothing --- p.55 / Chapter 7.4.2 --- Recognition of Different Patterns --- p.57 / Chapter 7.4.3 --- Detection Cycle --- p.59 / Chapter 7.5 --- Knowledge generation --- p.60 / Chapter 8 --- Level 4: Scenario Detection --- p.62 / Chapter 8.1 --- Basic idea --- p.62 / Chapter 8.2 --- Detection cycle --- p.65 / Chapter 8.2.1 --- RETRIEVE --- p.66 / Chapter 8.2.2 --- REUSE --- p.75 / Chapter 8.2.3 --- REVISE --- p.76 / Chapter 8.2.4 --- RETAIN --- p.82 / Chapter 8.3 --- Knowledge Generation --- p.82 / Chapter 9 --- Experiments and Research Findings --- p.85 / Chapter 9.1 --- Experiments on Monitoring and Detection --- p.85 / Chapter 9.1.1 --- Precision and Recall --- p.85 / Chapter 9.1.2 --- Architecture of FKM --- p.86 / Chapter 9.1.3 --- Experiment and Result Analysis --- p.88 / Chapter 9.2 --- Evaluation of Knowledge Management --- p.89 / Chapter 9.2.1 --- Evaluation Design --- p.90 / Chapter 9.2.2 --- Result Analysis --- p.91 / Chapter 10 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.94 / Chapter 10.1 --- Conclusion --- p.94 / Chapter 10.2 --- Future Direction --- p.95 / Appendix I A Survey on Investors of Hong Kong --- p.96 / Appendix II Theories on Cross-Market Relation --- p.99 / Appendix III Mathematical Model for Patterns --- p.102 / Bibliography --- p.105