This chapter discusses the history of option contracts from ancient times until the appearance
of Theorie der Prämiengeschäffe by Vinzenz Bronzin in 1908 . The history examines the …

The primary objective of this article is to develop a framework for analyzing the ethical
foundations and implications of shareholder wealth maximization (SWM). Distinctions between …

The search for the pioneers of financial economics contained in this volume places the
origins of financial economics well outside the conventional boundaries of the history of …

This article introduces the concept of economic medicalization where non-medical problems
are transformed into medical problems in order to achieve the objective of corporate …

By the time The Wealth of Nations had appeared, financial economics featured a well
developed body of scientific knowledge, covering subjects such as fixed income evaluation, life …

This paper explores the epistemological basis for economic prognostications of climate change
activists arising from, arguably, the most important scientific problem confronting modern …

… m Geoffrey Poitras is a Professor at Simon Fraser University. … this expected value is decidedly
less complicated for unrestricted than for absorbed Brownian motion (Heaney and Poitras, …

Available studies have not provided a satisfactory answer to the problem of making international
comparisons of port efficiency. This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to …

… hedge trading, as Geoffrey Poitras so aptly makes clear in this book. Poitras does an excellent
… Powers, Former Editor, The Journal of Futures Markets" Geoff Poitras has written a clear …

This Monte Carlo study compares the small sample properties of some commonly used
omnibus and directional tests, based on the standardized third and fourth moments, for …