"Open interest, or the amount of contracts outstanding in futures markets, has remarkable power to forecast commodity, currency, bond, and stock prices. Changes in open interest are highly pro-cyclical and predict asset-price fluctuations better than a number of alternative variables including...

Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) were among the driving forces of the rapid growth of the market for credit derivatives in recent years. Possibly the most popular model beside the Gaussian copula for pricing CDO tranches is the Random-Factor-Loading-Model of Andersen and Sidenius...

Aus welchen Gründen setzen Unternehmen (Währungs-)Derivate ein? Der Autor geht dieser Frage nach, indem er zunächst verschiedene Theorien zur Rechtfertigung des unternehmerischen Einsatzes von Derivaten zu Risikomanagementzwecken zusammenfaßt, welche die grundsätzliche Redundanz von...