{"title":"Behavioural Finance and Financial Economics with Heterogeneous Beliefs","authors":"Weihong Huang, Wai-mun Chia","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000E111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000E111","url":null,"abstract":"The literature about the dynamics of prices in speculative markets, based on the interaction of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents has become well developed in recent decades. Hommes CH [1] provides an excellent survey work on Heterogeneous Agent Models (HAMs) in economics and finance. In this strand of literature, one is able to generate sophisticated structures that capture some of the dynamics and stylized facts documented in financial time series at the macro level by aggregating the simple interactions of boundedly rational agents using various trading rules at the micro level. Such stylized facts include excess volatility, high trading volume, temporary bubbles and trend following, sudden crashes and mean reversion, clustered volatility and fat tails in the returns distribution. These models generally include nonlinear elements which may come from agents’ or demand functions, evolutionary switching between available strategies, and contagion and consequent transition of speculators among optimistic and pessimistic groups.","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"433 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114579611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The European Policy Model Revision and the Challenge of Democracy","authors":"R. R. Canale","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000E107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000E107","url":null,"abstract":"The theoretical underpinnings of the European Policy model are 1) the deterministic nature of the economic system; 2) the ability of financial markets to anticipate the future trend of the economy. The crisis denied the goodness of these two assumptions and revealed that the policy structure is unable to counter the crisis. PIIGS countries do not have short run tools to fill the gap with virtuous countries and national priorities appear to be overcome by European claims for budgetary discipline. The existence of a two speeds Europe seriously threaten the future existence of the currency union. In search for solutions national economists and politicians should consider a “new trilemma”: the impossibility to have at the same time globalization, democracy and autonomous policy management. The challenge Europe as a whole faces is to build up a political project capable of managing globalization through policy action and at the same time preserve democracy.","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"102 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134033884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk and Return to Investment in Five Emerging Nations: A Mathematica Simulation","authors":"Mohammad R. Safarzadeh, F. Nazarian","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares the Mathematica simulations of optimum allocation ratios derived from the application of Modern Portfolio Theory to historical data of five emerging nations with the actual allocations as presented in MSCI BRIC Index Fund (BKE) and Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM). The paper finds that the BKE and EEM allocations of funds are not consistent with the optimum allocations of funds derived from the Mathematica simulation whether the risk of exchange rate volatility is factored in or not.","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations on Budgeting and Planning Under an Efficient Controlling System on a Corporate Level","authors":"V. Grosu, M. Tulvinschi","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000101","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently no economic entity that is free from distress, risks and difficulties of various kinds that eventually lead to rather negative effects on the business plans, on the strategies and the set objectives of the company and invariably affecting the corporate image and the relationships with business partners or other categories of stakeholders. Thus, regardless of their size, corporations now have to adjust, monitor and co validate the control activities and procedures in compliance with the effective regulations and, at the same time, react promptly and enforce corrective and continuous control measures in order to ensure of the efficiency of these actions and observe the active legal provisions. The objective of this paper focuses on this specific context, emphasizing and analyzing the manner in which the issues and the risks encountered by a business entity can be avoided or overcome through the implementation of the fundamental controlling principles that are defined by the significant controlling methods and instruments that are essential for the planning and budgeting of the economic and financial indicators.","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124983870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Make Informed Decisions in Forex Trading","authors":"Chunming Yuan","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000E105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000E105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"61 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131894737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stock Market Crash of the Great Recession: Who's To Blame?","authors":"Eric W. Hayden","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000E103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000E103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131982543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"âÂÂManagingâ Greek Debts: Catastrophe Masquerading asâÂÂRescueâÂÂ","authors":"K. Raffer","doi":"10.4172/2168-9458.1000e104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000e104","url":null,"abstract":"out first, they paid dearly for this in the end. Adding insult to injury the forced haircut is officially “voluntary” even though CACs were imposed and official money aggravating the crisis is now preferred. This is all the more unjust as regulators and governments pushed private investors into euro-member-country bonds. To use Soros’ words in the FT, banks “obliged to hold riskless assets to meet their liquidity requirements were induced to load up on the sovereign debt of the weaker countries to earn a few extra basis points”. A capital weight of zero pursuant to Basle I for “OECD-countries”, modified to countries with ratings from AAA to AAby Basel IIthe chairman of the : IASB is said to have gone so far as to call this the “biggest accounting scam in history” or the EU-exemption from the large exposure regime for highly rated sovereigns from the 25% of equity limit have all induced bona fide private creditors to invest in now dubious bonds of euromembers. Now they are told by the very same regulators that these zero risk investments were high risk exposure after all. Minds more critical than I might think of a con trick. Raffer, J Stock Forex Trad 2012, 1:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2168-9458.1000e104 Stock & Forex Trading","PeriodicalId":315937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Stock & Forex Trading","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130833365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}