1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143587103321

Autore

Pepper Gordon T. <1934->

Titolo

The liquidity theory of asset prices [[electronic resource] /] / Gordon Pepper with Michael J. Oliver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England, : John Wiley & Sons, c2006

ISBN

1-118-67342-5

1-280-41110-4

9786610411108

0-470-03277-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Classificazione

85.30

Altri autori (Persone)

OliverMichael J

Disciplina

332.63232

332/.041501

Soggetti

Monetary policy

Liquidity (Economics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Tables, Figures and Charts; Introduction; Appetiser; Structure of the Book; Language and Jargon; Academic Theories; Modern Portfolio Theory; The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Forms of Investment Analysis; Fundamental Analysis; Monetary Analysis; Technical Analysis; The Intuitive Approach; What the Book is Going to Say; Part I the Liquidity Theory; 1 Types of Trades in Securities; 1.1 Liquidity Trades and Portfolio Trades; 1.2 Information Trades and Price Trades; 1.3 'Efficient Prices'

1.4 Expectations of Further Rises or Falls2 Persistent Liquidity Trades; 2.1 Demand for Money; 2.1.1 Transactions Demand for Money; 2.1.2 Savings Demand for Money; 2.1.3 Interest Rates and the Demand for Money; 2.2 Supply of Money; 2.2.1 Printing-Press Money; 2.2.2 Fountain-Pen Money; 2.2.3 Interest Rates and the Supply of Money; 2.3 Monetary Imbalances; 2.4 Excess Money in the Economy; 2.5 Summary; 3 Extrapolative Expectations; 3.1 Sentiment; 3.2 Intuition; 3.3 Decision-Taking Inertia; 3.4 Crowds; 3.5 Fundamental and Monetary



Forces in the Same Direction; 4 Discounting Liquidity Transactions

4.1 Speculation4.2 Timing; 4.3 Short-Term Risk Versus Profits in the Longer Term; Appendix: Speculation and Market Patterns; 5 Cyclical Changes Associated with Business Cycles; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Direct and Indirect Effects of Money on Asset Prices; 5.2.1 Money, Business Cycles and Inflation; 5.2.2 Business Cycles and Fundamental Factors: the 'indirect Effect' on Asset Prices; 5.2.3 The Combination of the Indirect and Direct Effects; 5.3 Strategy; 5.4 Timing; 5.5 Sequences; 5.6 Triggers; 6 Shifts in the Savings Demand for Money; 6.1 The Peak of a Business Cycle

6.2 Running Down Bank DepositsAppendix 6A: Some Bond Arithmetic; Appendix 6B: Government Bond Markets; Part II Financial Bubbles and Debt Deflation; 7 Financial Bubbles; 7.1 Detection of a Bubble; 7.2 Phases; 7.2.1 Chronically Dangerous; 7.2.2 The Burst; 7.2.3 Acutely Dangerous; 7.3 Crosschecks; 8 Debt Deflation; 8.1 The Cure for Debt Deflation; 8.1.1 Money Supply Policy; 8.1.2 Fiscal Policy; Appendix: Ignorance of Irving Fisher's Prescription; Part III Elaboration; 9 Creation of Printing-Press Money; 9.1 The UK in More Detail; 9.2 Four Policies

10 Control of Fountain-Pen Money and the Counterparts of Broad Money10.1 Control of Bank Lending; 10.1.1 The Teaching in Textbooks; 10.1.2 How Central Banks Operate in Practice; 10.2 Bank Capital; 10.3 The UK in More Detail; 10.4 The 'Counterparts' of Changes in Broad Money; 10.5 Relationship Between the Counterparts; 11 Modern Portfolio Theory and the Nature of Risk; 11.1 Summary; 11.2 Expected Yield; 11.3 Risk; 11.3.1 Risk and the Circumstances of the Investor; 11.3.2 Variation in Risk - Life Assurance Funds; 11.3.3 Investment Managers' Personal Risk; 11.3.4 Unacceptable Risks

11.4 Exploiting Skewness

Sommario/riassunto

Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well-springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so.  Understanding this force of compulsio



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495202103321

Titolo

Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking : 12th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2020, Tokyo, Japan, August 31, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-84924-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 113 p. 34 illus., 13 illus. in color.)

Collana

Programming and Software Engineering, , 2945-9168 ; ; 12752

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Electronic digital computers - Evaluation

Database management

Application software

Computer systems

Expert systems (Computer science)

Information technology - Management

System Performance and Evaluation

Database Management

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computer System Implementation

Knowledge Based Systems

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Towards Testing ACID Compliance in the LDBC Social Network Benchmark -- EXPOSE: Experimental Performance Evaluation of Stream Processing Engines Made Easy -- Revisiting Issues in Benchmarking Metric Selection -- Performance Evaluation for Digital Transformation -- Experimental Comparison of Relational and NoSQL Document Systems: the Case of Decision Support -- A Framework for Supporting Repetition and Evaluation in the Process of Cloud-based DBMS Performance Benchmarking -- Benchmarking AI Inference: Where we are in 2020 -- A Domain Independent Benchmark Evolution Model for



the Transaction Processing Performance Council.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2020, held in August 2020. The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and cover the following topics: testing ACID compliance in the LDBC social network benchmark; experimental performance evaluation of stream processing engines made easy; revisiting issues in benchmarking metric selection; performance evaluation for digital transformation; experimental comparison of relational and NoSQL document systems; a framework for supporting repetition and evaluation in the process of cloud-based DBMS performance benchmarking; benchmarking AI inference; a domain independent benchmark evolution model for the transaction processing performance council.