Thursday, January 17, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: RETAIL (????) Banking ... you must be joking!

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 02:41 AM PST

I was at a conference yesterday where a leading economist talked about the global economic forecasts and specifically about the UK.read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Interesting Equilibria

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:21 PM PST

Over on TheEdge, they asked 150 people what worries them most.  One of the more interesting responses by Dylan Evans notes that while Democracy is pretty good, there might be something better. Unfortunately, we may never find that better system.the appendix persists because individuals with a smaller and thinner appendix are more vulnerable to appendicitis. So the normal tendency for useless...

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Published / Preprint: On consistent valuations based on distorted expectations: from multinomial random walks to L\'{e}vy processes. (arXiv:1301.3531v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

A distorted expectation is a Choquet expectation with respect to the capacity induced by a concave probability distortion. Distorted expectations are encountered in various static settings, in risk theory, mathematical finance and mathematical economics. There are a number of different ways to extend a distorted expectation to a multi-period setting, which are not all time-consistent. One...

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Published / Preprint: Portfolio Management Approach in Trade Credit Decision Making. (arXiv:1301.3823v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

The basic financial purpose of an enterprise is maximization of its value. Trade credit management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. Many of the current asset management models that are found in financial management literature assume book profit maximization as the basic financial purpose. These book profitbased models could be lacking in what relates to another aim...

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Published / Preprint: Planning Optimal From the Firm Value Creation Perspective Levels of Operating Cash Investments. (arXiv:1301.3824v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

The basic financial purpose of corporation is creation of its value. Liquidity management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. Many of the current asset management models that are found in financial management literature assume book profit maximization as the basic financial purpose. These book profit based models could be lacking in what relates to another aim like...

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Published / Preprint: Polish and Silesian Non-Profit Organizations Liquidity Strategies. (arXiv:1301.3825v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

The kind of realized mission inflows the sensitivity to risk. Among other factors, the risk results from decision about liquid assets investment level and liquid assets financing. The higher the risk exposure, the higher the level of liquid assets. If the specific risk exposure is smaller, the more aggressive could be the net liquid assets strategy. The organization choosing between various...

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Published / Preprint: Value-Based Inventory Management. (arXiv:1301.3826v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

The basic financial purpose of a firm is to maximize its value. An inventory management system should also contribute to realization of this basic aim. Many current asset management models currently found in financial management literature were constructed with the assumption of book profit maximization as basic aim. However these models could lack what relates to another aim, i.e., maximization...

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Published / Preprint: Path properties and regularity of affine processes on general state spaces. (arXiv:1107.1607v2 [math.PR] UPDATED)

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

We provide a new proof for regularity of affine processes on general state spaces by methods from the theory of Markovian semimartingales. On the way to this result we also show that the definition of an affine process, namely as stochastically continuous time-homogeneous Markov process with exponential affine Fourier-Laplace transform, already implies the existence of a...

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Vendor News: Home Financial Services, Inc. Goes Live on Lightning™

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:06 AM PST

Published / Preprint: Are U.S. CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

This paper challenges the widely accepted stylized fact that chief executive officers (CEOs) in the United States are paid significantly more than their foreign counterparts. Using CEO pay data across fourteen countries with mandated pay disclosures, we show that the U.S. pay premium is economically modest and primarily reflects the performance-based pay demanded by institutional shareholders and...

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Published / Preprint: Corporate Governance and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

Using deal-level data from transactions initiated by large private equity houses, we find that the abnormal performance of deals is positive on average, after controlling for leverage and sector returns. Higher abnormal performance is related to improvement in sales and operating margin during the private phase, relative to that for quoted peers. General partners who are ex-consultants or...

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Published / Preprint: Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

Institutional investors exhibit substantial home-state bias in private equity. This effect is particularly pronounced for public pension funds, where overweighting amounts to 9.8% of aggregate private-equity investments and 16.5% for the average limited partner. Public pension funds' in-state investments achieve performance that is lower by two to four percentage points than both their own...

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Published / Preprint: The Procyclical Effects of Bank Capital Regulation

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

We compare various bank capital regulation regimes using a dynamic equilibrium model of relationship lending in which banks are unable to access the equity markets every period and the business cycle determines loans' probabilities of default. Banks hold endogenous capital buffers as a precaution against shocks that impair their future lending capacity. We find that Basel II is more procyclical...

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Published / Preprint: Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

We model investment options as intangible capital in a production economy in which younger vintages of assets in place have lower exposure to aggregate productivity risk. In equilibrium, physical capital requires a substantially higher expected return than intangible capital. Quantitatively, our model rationalizes a significant share of the observed difference in the average return of...

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Published / Preprint: Fiscal Policy and Asset Prices with Incomplete Markets

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

We study the simultaneous impact of fiscal policy decisions on macroeconomic activity, wealth distribution, and asset prices. We consider a general equilibrium, overlapping generations model with incomplete markets and heterogeneous agents, where government debt and capital are imperfect substitutes. Increases in public debt lead to significant increases in the riskless rate and to a reduction in...

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