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Finance describes the management, creation and study of money, banking, credit, investments, assets and liabilities that make up financial systems, as well as the study of those financial instruments.

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Can banks "create" Bitcoin

Let me begin by saying 1Muflon1's answer should be accepted. It is correct. The only reason that I am answering is that there appears to be some confusion by others about how this would work. In ad …
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Put option valuation

Of course there are differences. Option contracts are like certificates of deposit and not like stocks or bonds. They are only created when another party agrees to create them, which in practice req …
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Market order's variables

I am a financial economist, so I will attempt to answer what I think you are asking. A market order isn't one concept, it's many. Each place that accepts trades operationalizes it differently. It a …
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Variance of a rational forecast

Mean-variance finance models, if both literally true in their assumptions and correctly derived, do not give rise to estimators. … Journal of Mathematical Finance, 7, 769-804. …
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Buy a company with credit or bonds. Does this happen?

I have a question. A company is worth 1 million dollars, in terms of present value of revenues, discounted at rate R. Can I borrow 1 million dollars from a bank and buy the company? Yes. It is d …
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When does gambling reduce risk?

In standard cases, you cannot generally reduce risk by gambling with uncorrelated gambles. With that said, a lot of your question depends entirely upon how you start defining terms. Let me begin by …
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What are alternative measures of risk?

solutions must have $\tan^{-1}(x)$ for some form of $x$ in it, which is the cdf of the Cauchy distribution, guaranteeing that, except for certain fixed payout instruments, no variance exists at all in finance
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Reading list for physics undergrad who'd like to cover the economics related to the hedge fu...

You would be better off reading in finance than economics. Economics is the study of how people make choices given limited resources. … Finance is the study of how to get the right amount of money to the right place at the right time and to account for risks to those strategies. …
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Difference between double auction and continuous double auction?

So, if a distinction is made, as continuous double auctions are usually just called double auctions, then the difference has to do with frequency. It is easier to have an example. The New York Stock …
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