Financial markets

The most widely accepted conceptualization of the customer satisfaction concept is the Expectancy Confirmation Theory (alternatively ECT or expectation disconfirmation theory). The structure of this theory was developed in a series of two papers written by Richard L. Oliver in 1977 and 1980. Expectation confirmation theory is a cognitive theory which seeks to explain post purchase or post-adoption satisfaction as a function of expectations, perceived performance, and disconfirmation of beliefs.…

This paper examines the misconception and the false belief of the investor in the game of roulette under the influence of the two theories of probability under behavioural finance: Gamblers fallacy and Hot hand theory. This paper’s first contribution is to identify and outline the existence of this bias belief previously demonstrated and then further demonstrate the existence of the biasness in an individual mindset in the game of roulette. This paper aims to carry out a study to differentiate…

also realized that the average return on stocks with high sensitivities to liquidity exceeds that for stocks with low sensitivities in the year 1966 until 1999. According to Pastor, L. & Stambaugh, R. F., they are used stock return to measure the market-wide is a state variable important for asset pricing as…

Why does Mr. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dunbner not like realtors? In a book filled with so many interesting questions, this would be the one I would ask the authors directly. This book by economist Steven D. Levitt, co-authored with Stephen J. Dubner, fuses together stories, anecdotes, data analyses, and discussions of unusually linked phenomena as it ask its readers to think more critically about the things that occur in everyday life. Things like how birth control has stemmed the crime rate,…

The newsvendor problem is a mathematical model which is used to determine the optimal stock under uncertainty. In the following, the newsvendor context under cost minimization will be introduced. Let h be the unit holding cost respectively the unit overage cost (as we regard the pure cost context) and b the unit penalty of not serving demand (or unit backorder cost) respectively the unit underage cost. Then, the target inventory B is equal to the mean demand µ plus safety stock SS. The safety…

Univariate Binomial Tree Cox, Ross and Rubinstein (1979) developed the binomial option pricing model which converges to the Black-Scholes formula in the continuous limit and demonstrates the advantage in valuing American-style options. The model approximates the behavior of an asset price by the upward and downward changes in the asset price over a particular interval of time. As shown in Figure 1, an asset with a current price of S follows a multiplicative binomial process in which the…

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Post Company to illustrate those principles. Buffett and others estimated the intrinsic value at between $400 and $500 million while the market price was $100 million. The key thing that Buffett takes from Graham’s principles is the practice of buying good businesses at market discounts compared to the underlying value. A common misconception is that the market provides the most accurate price. Buffett maintains the same buying principles whether it is a public or private company. In making a…

this model is a good fit. The data therefore highlights that out of a total of eight variables that were under consideration, only Exchange Rates, Call Money Rates and Foreign Exchange Reserves significantly affects the performance of Indian Stock Market. Therefore, we reject the null hypothesis for the above mentioned significant variables and fail to reject for other macro-economic variables. Final Model – 80793.021 - 1723.012 Exchange Rate – 3489.217 Call Money Rates + 3.466 Foreign Exchange…

in asset pricing (CAPM) from Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965a) was developed independently of each other using the portfolio theory to deduce a market equilibrium. Portfolio theory with a riskless asset and unlimited short sales was the basis for this model (Krause, 2001). To add to the charateristics of accumulating portfolio theory to ascertain the market stability, it also considers the decision of a sole investor. Given the price Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965a) were with the belief that…