Financial market-product interactions in industry equilibrium: implications for information acquisition decisions

Article Abstract:

Financial market information is a major channel through which financial markets and product markets interact. Its importance in the market relationship lies in its ability to influence product market decisions. A model created in an industry equilibrium setting shows that data revealed by the futures market weaken companies' incentives to gather information. Better production and investment decisions can be made based on these data.

Production Management, Analysis, Financial markets

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A Simple Portfolio Allocation Model of Financial Wealth

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A simple portfolio model of household allocation is developed to determine the investment in: fixed deposits, savings bank deposits, building society deposits, and government bonds. Precise estimates are derived for interest rate coefficients. A significant degree of substitutability is observed.

Economic aspects, Interest rates, Comparative analysis, Bank deposits, Resource allocation

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Estimation of Portfolio Balance Functions that Are Mean-Variance Optimizing

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A procedure is developed for efficiently estimating portfolio-balance parameters that allow variance over time. The parameters are based on investor's optimizing behavior regarding expected returns and variances. A mean-variance optimization is also tested and not rejected.

Statistics, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Estimation theory, Capitalists and financiers

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