Talks and Debates
Author(s): Alistair Milne, Cass Business School, Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, supported by ACCA
Alistair Milne and Perry Mehrling, together with Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, propose using government credit insurance guarantees to combat the credit crisis. Their idea is to use these guarantees to put a floor under the prices of the better quality tranches of structured credit securities, hence restoring liquidity to credit markets and arresting the global credit contraction.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 1114
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.
Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641
Author(s): Lucio Sarno, Professor of Finance, Cass Business School, Pasquale Della Corte and Ilias Tsiakas, Warwick Business School
The forward bias arises from the well-documented empirical rejection of the Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) condition, which suggests that forward exchange rates are a biased predictor of future spot exchange rates. In practice, this means that high interest rate currencies tend to appreciate rather than depreciate.
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 290 | 
Author(s): Meziane Lasfer, Cass Business School
Professor Lasfer will examine the reasons why insiders trade, and the significant role private information plays in insider trading, as well as look at portfolio changes due to these activities.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 229 |
Economic forecasters have not had a good press recently. Only the mavericks saw the global recession coming. Analysts forecasting company earnings have never had a great press. Their forecasts seem horribly inaccurate and often overoptimistic, with some dragged through the courts after telling their clients to buy and their friends to sell.
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 149 |
