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Signaling in OTC Markets: Benefits and Costs of Transparency

Alberto Mokak Teguia

We provide a theoretical rationale for dealer objections to ex post transparency in over-the-counter markets. Disclosure of the terms of a transaction conveys information possessed by the dealer about the asset quality and reduces the dealer's rents when s ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2020

Trading mechanisms in over-the-counter markets

Sebastian Vogel

In the chapter ``When to Introduce Electronic Trading Platforms in Over-the-Counter Markets?'' An equilibrium in a market is determined in which traders have the choice between using an electronic platform with a request-for-quote protocol or calling a dea ...

EPFL2020

Termination of Open Higher-Order Programs

Viktor Kuncak, Nicolas Charles Yves Voirol, Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

We study the problem of proving termination of open, higher-order programs with recursive functions and datatypes. We identify a new point in the design space of solutions, with an appealing trade-off between simplicity of specification, modularity, and am ...

2017

Efficient Pricing of Energy Derivatives

Anders Trolle

I present a tractable framework, first developed in Trolle and Schwartz (2009), for pricing energy derivatives in the presence of unspanned stochastic volatility. Among the model features are i) a perfect fit to the initial futures term structure, ii) a fa ...

Palgrave Macmillan US2014

Multistage stochastic portfolio optimisation in deregulated electricity markets using linear decision rules

Daniel Kuhn

The deregulation of electricity markets increases the financial risk faced by retailers who procure electric energy on the spot market to meet their customers’ electricity demand. To hedge against this exposure, retailers often hold a portfolio of electric ...

Elsevier2012

Hedging Electricity Swing Options in Incomplete Markets

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

The deregulation of electricity markets renders public utilities vulnerable to the high volatility of electricity spot prices. This price risk is effectively mitigated by swing options, which allow the option holder to buy electric energy from the option w ...

2011

Option Contracting in the California Water Market

Thomas Alois Weber

Temporary water transfers, as achievable under option contracts, capture gains from trade that would go unrealized if only permanent transfers of water rights were possible. This paper develops a bilateral option contracting model for water which includes ...

Springer Verlag2010

Reporting incentives and biases in online review forums

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Florent Frédéric Garcin

Online reviews have become increasingly popular as a way to judge the quality of various products and services. However, recent work demonstrates that the absence of reporting incentives leads to a biased set of reviews that may not reflect the true qualit ...

2010

Unspanned Stochastic Volatility and the Pricing of Commodity Derivatives

Anders Trolle

Commodity derivatives are becoming an increasingly important part of the global derivatives market. Here we develop a tractable stochastic volatility model for pricing commodity derivatives. The model features unspanned stochastic volatility, quasi-analyti ...

Oxford University Press2009

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