Questions tagged [financial-markets]
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Are there any financial instruments/ options that allow you to short bonds that are compiled of state owned municipal bonds? [closed]
Is there an option equivalent to credit default swaps that are made up of state owned municipal bonds. Is there an index that is compiled of more than a few state's municipal bonds? I want to bet ...
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Why is South Korea classified as an Emerging Market economy?
I have recently found out that South Korea is part of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, and that the South Korean Won (KRW) currency trades as a non-deliverable currency. Furthermore, the South Korean ...
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What is the intuition for the potential loss of market makers on LS-LSMR?
What risk do liquidity providers take on when they provide liquidity to an LS-LSMR automated market maker pool?
How much can they lose?
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Why Hanson's logarithmic scoring rule define an Automated Market Maker?
Why Hanson's logarithmic scoring rule define an Automated Market Maker?
We have in this paper
in page 47, section automated market maker, that this scoring rule can "easily" be turned into ...
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why federal fund rate vs treasury bond yield generally move in the same direction?
My own thought is, if the fed lowred federal fund rate, peoole should look for investment with greater return, like treasury bond. More demand=decline in yields but why do they generally move in the ...
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What is the correct way of calculating the “average” price based on the “Open,High,Low,Close” daily trade fields?
Open,High,Low,Close
I have these fields, representing the "opening" amount, the highest for the day, the lowest for the day, and what it closed at.
I'm trying to determine the "average&...
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Where does investment originate from in the circular flow model?
The above image is from my macroeconomics textbook.
I’m struggling to understand the “financial markets” corner. If financial markets refers to banking and perhaps the stock market, is it true that ...
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Literature on DSGE models featuring a financial sector
I recently read a ECB primer on DSGE models featuring the financial sector and became interested in the field. I also started to read some of the earlier literature in that field (e.g. Gertler & ...
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CAPM and beta for individual stocks
Why do we just assume that the beta is constant for a stock? Could it not very well be the case that the beta is 1.2 in a bear (baisse) market and 0.8 in a bull (hausse) market for an individual stock,...
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Volatility and the stock market
In general, it is known that market volatility increases during bear markets while it decreases during bull markets. Why is this the case? It seems strange that volatility is linked to the the general ...
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Theory behind financial flows not going to the most developing nations even though they have the highest growth rates
I remember reading a bunch of articles on this a few years ago, but I can't find any of the references any more.
It has been a while since I looked at this, so here is a rough paraphrase of the ...
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What does the Fed mean by “smoothening money market functioning”?
In many recent interviews, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has repeatedly mentioned that ensuring the smooth functioning of money markets is a key goal of the Fed's recent monetary policy actions. I want ...
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Does the federal reserve create any type of deadweight/welfare loss?
In microeconomics, we learn that when a good is overproduced or under produced, there is a dead weight loss associated with it. It seems like the same concept would apply to macroeconomics, where the ...
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How does the GDP multiplier work?
When we learn about the GDP multiplier, it is portrayed as 1/MPS, because savings are supposedly a leak out of consumer spending. However, what I don't understand is aren't those savings spent anyways ...
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Why Does Deficit Spending Work Without a Liquidity Trap?
My understanding is that in a functioning economy, the financial market clears when the nominal interest rate is above zero. It is only when it reaches zero that a liquidity trap occurs and the ...
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What value do virtual traders of commodity add to the market?
Many if not most companies trading in commodities are only trading them on paper. They will not use the commodity they are buying and can not take deliver of the physically commodity.
What value do ...
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CDO and Nonpositive Equity Questions
I have two questions about statements made in this video: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bank-bailout/v/bailout-2-book-value
At 6:25, the video ...
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If a CDS is x%, why does this mean $(1 - x)\%$ probability of default?
At 11:52, Tim Bennett says:
Well let's have a look at
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some prices. Currently the cost of
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insuring Greek debt is in excess of
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How to Calculate Bond Yields
According to Bloomberg, the coupon rate on a 10-year UK government gilt is 4.75%. Bloomberg also states that the yield is currently 0.47%, and the market price £144.57.
The UK Debt Management Office (...
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Understanding Bond Yields
According to Bloomberg, the coupon rate on a 10-year UK government bond is 4.75%.
Bloomberg also states that the yield is currently 0.55%, and the market price £143.51.
But if the following formula ...
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Convex transaction costs
Why do we assume convex transaction costs in theoretic models? What is the intuition and the strict definition of this assumption?
Well, I have in mind the Glosten model in 1994. Neither he provides ...
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Why'd the lender suffer the collateral haircut, not the borrower?
In the quote below, why'd Steve offer $10.5, when your Air Jordans are worth \$11? Why wouldn't Steve (the lender) assign the collateral haircut to you, and require you to pay him \$11 + risk premium? ...
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Beginner wanting to learn about economics/finance to explore career options?
I want to explore the banking/financial industries more for potential career options, can you recommend any books/ free online courses and sources in general as a starting point to build on my ...
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What's the special notation?
I'm studying "ALGORITHMIC AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING". Page 249 of it tries to find a formula for $h(t,q)$. First, it supposes $h(t,q) = \bar\kappa log \space\omega(q,t)$ then let $\omega(t)=[\omega(...
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Value relevance, informative information, Financial statements, IFRS 9
What are the theories that say that the disclosures in the annexes of the report and accounts are less relevant than the figures in the financial statements, is there anything?
I've been looking for ...
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Competitive vs complete and non-competitive vs incomplete marekts
The very insightful questions that arise, when someone studies micro foundation are the following: What is the difference between competitive and complete marekts? When we refer to the first is it ...
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What are good books about financial markets?
I found answers on this question online but people always recommend books for beginner investors who want to become rich. I just want book that is about history and role of financial markets and book ...
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demand for money
I am currently studying the demand for money by Blanchard. this model assumes that the amount of money held is basically related to transaction levels and the the attractiveness of bonds.
i.e.: ...
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What are financial service “passports”?
What are “passports” in the context of financial services?
I have also heard the term “passporting rights.”
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Can futures buying/selling distort price discovery?
How credible is the suggestion that specific parties distort price discovery (rig the market) of a given asset by buying/selling corresponding futures contracts or any other derivatives.
Should these ...
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What data/factors/attributes do the professionals monitor in a top-down analysis on the macroeconomics?
I am learning to do top-down analysis on a number of sectors in the US equity markets. I have never done it before and I would appreciate it if some professionals can share their experiences with me.
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Showing that a market model has arbitrage and describing martingales
This is an exercise which I came upon while studying an introduction to financial mathematics.
Exercise :
Consider the finite sample space $\Omega = \{\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3\}$ and let $\...
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What are the arguments for banning insider trading?
I can't see any economic argument for banning insider trading. In general, the point of allowing financial securities to be traded is to ensure that they are properly valued. "Insiders" seem better ...
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Why is a Normal Yield Curve a sign of a healthy economy?
I think the question is pretty self explanatory. I'm just trying to understand the logic behind why an upward sloping yield curve indicates a good economy?
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Why do ONLY Indian staffing/“consulting” bodyshops flood the US job market?
Why do ONLY Indian staffing/"consulting" bodyshop agencies flood the US job market, and why do they flood ONLY the US?
This is definitely not just "Well, many Indians have at least somewhat ...
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Are stock exchanges market makers?
Are stock exchanges like NASDAQ and NYSE market makers? In other words, are they providing liquidity by pairing individual buyers and sellers with each other in real-time? Or does it work differently?
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How does IS-LM model reduced investor confidence?
I am doing an essay on how a sovereign debt rating downgrade to junk status affects the economy. I wanted to use a theoretical framework to think about it, and seeing as an increase in the interest ...
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How to calculate average buy price when you buy, sell and rebuy
I wanted to get my avaerage buy price for some stocks I bought and see if I made money.
So far for just buying and then later selling I have been calculating the avaege buy price using this formula
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World Stock Markets that went up in 2008
We all know that the US stock market(s) collapsed in price in 2008, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bear_market_of_2007%E2%80%9309.
I was wondering what countries' stock markets went ...
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Are cryptocurrencies a ponzi scheme or a bubble?
Several users in this forum have addressed bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as ponzi schemes. Bitcoins have several uses which could legitimate its value as a currency, but also have received ...
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Gold charts on different currencies
I have this two charts of gold prices for the last 60 days. One is in Dollars and the other in Euros. Why they are not an exact match?
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Graph of liquidation of trade versus price of commodity
Suppose I want to open a long position (that which increases in value as the commodity goes up in value) in some commodity whose price at the time of opening the trade is, say, $p$. The position is ...
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Financial markets predictions [closed]
How do economists/investors predict supply and demand in financial markets such as indices, currencies, etc?
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Why are most of open market orders so far from the mid price?
Say there is an exchange with open buy and sell orders, why are there so many orders placed. So far away from the mid price. So for example is lowest sell order is say 1.01 and highest buy order is 1....
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Why obligation acceleration triggers Credit-Default Swaps (CDS)?
ISDA Credit Event definitions state that CDS can be triggered in an event of Obligation Acceleration. What does that mean? If for example, a country pays a bond 1 year prior to maturity are CDS ...
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Monthly average rate of discount, 3 month Treasury bills, Sterling Vs 1 Month
I have been advised by one of my professors to use UK treasury bills for a risk free rate when calculating expected returns for stocks.
I wanted to know whether I should be using 1 month T-Bills or 3 ...
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What aspects of macroeconomics should I address for convincing an investor to invest in a certain country? [closed]
I have a task at my internship which is to write 2 pages about the economic conditions in my country. My question is what I could include in my research. Surely, I'll address inflation, currency ...
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Market crash causes
Does market crash like in 1930 and 2009 are always due to excessive and careless lending activity? Lets say all lending is done in careful manner and no corporate fraud is done somehow, would it be ...
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S&P 500 total return excel sheet
Where can I find an excel sheet with total return (that is, with dividend reinvestment) of the S&P 500?
I have only found an online "calculator" (not an excel sheet), or an excel sheet with ...
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How long do stock markets usually take to process complex new public information?
Here is a question that I've been thinking about for a while:
Theoretically, assuming investors are rational, a stock's price will be equal to its its intrinsic value (present value of discounted ...
