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Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Pricing Asian options

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Options are securities that are difficult to price. In particular American options, which can be exercised at any time posed a serious chall...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Sweatshop equilibrium

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Westerners complain about sweatshops in Asia for two reasons: they produce at much lower labor costs, thus undercutting the Western labor fo...
Friday, August 22, 2008

The rise of Europe, the standstill of Asia

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One of the big challenges of Economic history is to explain why, a thousand years ago, Asia, and in particular China, suddenly stagnated and...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Economics of energy subsitution

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The increase in oil prices allows nicely to highlight the mechanics of substitution. The increase in the price of most goods lead to a decre...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Politicizing markets: the India example

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India is facing rising crude oil costs like other nations, but very differently. Indeed, the retail price of gas is set by the government, a...
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