Secrets of Finances and Payday Loans

Parlour’s (1998) model considers the choice between market and limit orders to show the working of a limit order book. In her simplified world there are only strategic risk-neutral liquidity traders who are endowed with a different evaluation of the risky asset and arrive randomly at the market to submit either a market order (MO) [...]

The assessment of the macroeconomic environment results in a judgement of the stage of the business cycle and the leverage cycle. Valuation indicators help to form an opinion on the future direction of credit spreads. However, the magnitude of a change in spreads essentially depends on the market structure, especially the average credit quality and [...]