Preface -- Credibility Theory -- Credibilistic Programming -- Mathematical Programming -- Expected Value Model -- Chance-Constrained Programming -- Entropy Maximization Model -- Cross-Entropy Minimization Model -- Regret Minimization Model

This self-contained book presents the main techniques of quantitative portfolio management and associated statistical methods in a very didactic and structured way, in a minimum number of pages. The concepts of investment portfolios, self-financing portfolios and absence of arbitrage...

Als Reaktion auf die Schwächen des Value-at-Risk-Konzeptes wurden in der Literatur axiomatische Risikomessansätze als Alternative vorgeschlagen. Mario Brandtner charakterisiert die diesen Ansätzen zugrunde liegenden Risikoverständnisse und präsentiert Techniken zu deren Umsetzung bei der...

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...

This book criticizes the fact that profitability measures derived from capital market models such as the Sharpe ratio and the reward-to-VaR ratio are proposed for loan portfolios, although it is not proven whether their risk-return trade-offs are optimal for banks. The authors demonstrate that...

The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to...

Valuing portfolios of options embedded in investment decisions is arguably one of the most important and challenging problems in real options and corporate ?nance in general. Although the problem is common and vitally important in the value creation process of almost any corporation, it has not...