Are rules and their enforcement effective at mitigating insider trading? A study shows that rules and surveillance together have the potential to mitigate the perpetration of market manipulation but also to exacerbate the profits from such manipulative activities. Insider trading can be facilitated by several forms of market manipulation that are not, strictly speaking, by
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pages 795–802. IEEE, 2013. It is well known that supervised learning problems with ℓ1 (Lasso) and ℓ2 (Tikhonov or Ridge) regularizers will result in very different solutions. For example, the ℓ1 solution vector will be sparser and can potentially be used both for prediction and feature selection. However, given a data set it is often hard to determine
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Price discovery (as an element of market efficiency) is one of the cornerstones of market quality the other being market fairness. Research by the CMCRC illustrates how recent developments in Dark Trading in the Canadian stock market have affected the efficiency of these markets relative to their southern near neighbour market. We find that the
The impact of the GFC in Europe has been, or perhaps remains, arguably more severe than the Great Depression in terms of breadth, depth and persistence. Notwithstanding the capital requirement regime for banks that is governed by the various Basel accords, there is a straightforward policy proposal that addresses the majority of the failings exposed
Directors execute trades in their companies’ shares for a variety of reasons. Their actions may have information value for other investors seeking to mimic these strategies. This paper tests whether directors’ discretionary trading has a predictive value, and also provides a better understanding of the information flow in equity markets. Sean Hardy USYD, CIFR /
Managers and major shareholders typically have an information advantage over outside investors when trading a company’s shares. Numerous studies have been done into the relation between ownership concentration, industry competition and information asymmetry, but rarely using Australian data. The output of this study is particularly relevant for regulators, as it examines conditions that might limit
Increasing life expectancy rates are extending the liability profiles of annuity income providers. However, the challenge of devising asset allocation strategies to fund these liabilities is complicated by a lack of appropriate assets. This thesis demonstrates portfolio management strategies to address this challenge. Estelle Liu UNSW, CIFR / CMCRC Honours Scholarship Program 2014 Keywords: Annuity, risk