The Continuous Double Auction (CDA) is one of the most popular of all auction market-mechanisms in the world. Some of the biggest trade markets in the world including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are organised as CDAs. Previous work using Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for automated mechanism design by Cliff has shown that previously unknown ‘hybrid’ variants...

in this article, demand equations for import of consumer, intermediate and capital goods for the period 1971(2) to 1999(1), is estimated and analyzed, using the ardl pesaran & shin method. the results show that the behavior of the different categories of imported goods in iran is best explained by the parallel market exchange rate, implying this rate is a closer approximation fir the opportunit...

This paper empirically investigates the exchange rate effects of Iranian Rial against Dollar (Rial vs.US) on stock prices in Iran. The sample period for the study has been taken from March 20, 2004 to March 20, 2010 using daily nominal exchange rate of Rial /us and daily closing values of Tehran Stock Exchange. Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model has been use...

The changes in the capital market bring transformation in the entire economy of the country. The boom and depression of the capital market is reflected in all sectors of the economy. Stock price downward movement continuously in the market forewarns the crisis period in advance. Numerous studies were conducted to trace the movement of stock market and its relationship with various economic fact...

This thesis investigates the price discovery in the foreign exchange market using high frequency data. Traditional exchange rate models assume market homogeneity and the sole existence of public information. However. recent studies suggest such assumptions are not well founded and have generated the 'disconnection' puzzle of exchange rates deviating from their fundamentals in the short and medi...

The main objective of this article is to present a comparative study of capital assets pricing models (CAPM) with extrapolating capital assets pricing models (X-CAPM) of companies admitted in Tehran Exchange Market which is accomplished for the first time by investigators of this research in Iran. Accordingly, the statistical population under study of this research includes all companies admitt...

using the treynor and mazoy model (expanded by fama to evaluate management performance for asset allocation among investment units), this paper examines the management’s performance in funds and investment companies in tehran stock exchange during 2004-2010. the results do not support the application of management market timing during the study period and managers were only able to create addit...

Ad exchanges are becoming an increasingly popular way to sell advertisement slots on the internet. An ad exchange is basically a spot market for ad impressions. A publisher who has already signed contracts reserving advertisement impressions on his pages can choose between assigning a new ad impression for a new page view to a contracted advertiser or to sell it at an ad exchange. This leads to...

Display ads on the Internet are increasingly sold via ad exchanges such as RightMedia, AdECN and Doubleclick Ad Exchange. These exchanges allow real-time bidding, that is, each time the publisher contacts the exchange, the exchange ”calls out” to solicit bids from ad networks. A major issue is the infrastructure mismatch: the volume of impressions that come to the ad exchange is very large, but...