A market I wasn't aware of before is the curious market for weather.
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Short-selling of stocks got a lot of bad press from the current financial crisis, but I found a comment from a control engineer interesting. In ordinary buying and selling, everyone hopes that the value of the stock will keep on rising and he likended this to a positive feedback loop, which cannot be stable. The short-selling was then to be the ( Read more... )

Quants- for those in the know, what are the major differences between the graduate derivatives texts by Hull and Kolb? I'm trying to assess whether or not I would be able to use Hull's text (which I understand very well and own) or if I should bite the bullet and buy Kolb's book. Thanks!

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I have a question, and I would appreciate it if I could get a frank answer (I will provide any clarification if asked). I'm in a MS Finance program right now, and I have the intention of going onto a Finance Ph.D. after I complete my MS. My background is in Economics with some basic math (statistics and calculus mostly), and I am catching up on ( Read more... )

I'm looking for feeds from English-language editions of Israeli newspapers and magazines. I made some for jpost. Haaretz doesn't seem to have any feeds.

They can be lj feeds, or feeds from the source that I can then turn into lj feeds. Thanks in advance!

The Black-Scholes model for option pricing was presented in 1973 and has been widely applied in economics, to say the least. Today, it's easy to find competing models published in fields from economics to physics but Black-Scholes appear, to an outsider atleast, to be the standard ( Read more... )

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Hey, I don't know if this is an appropriate place to be asking this, but I'm desperate. I'm a library assistant-- meaning a grad student who helps out at the reference desk-- and I've got a prof who has a question that's totally boggling me. I'm a humanities person, and don't know a whole lot about business and finance. That said, here goes ( Read more... )

I'm looking into futures markets and have a few questions.
Do the existence of futures markets generally dampen fluctuations in market prices? Are there special cases where this does not hold? What are the open questions or current research topics on futures markets?