Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). An economic derivative is an over-the-counter (OTC) contract in which the payout ...

Editor's Note: Thist story was originally published in the May 1998 edition of Scientific American. Weare posting it in light of recent news involving Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Months before ...

Economics is the study of the use of economic resources in the marketplace. Free market economies often rely on this information to gauge current economic conditions. Economic analysis is a primary ...

This paper proposes a `derivative' firm model that emphasizes the decisions to invest in productive assets and to contract with firm managers. Contemporary examples of derivative firms include joint ...

MANY of the diehard optimists on Wall Street have been beaten to a pulp by now, but those still standing have fallen back on a nifty bit of calculus. The second derivative, they say, is turning ...