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Equity Allocation and Portfolio Selection in Insurance: A simplified Portfolio Model

Taflin, Erik - EconWPA - 1999

A quadratic discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal portfolio selection in (re-)insurance is studied. For positive values of underwriting levels, the expected value of the accumulated result is optimized, under constraints on its variance and on annual ROE's. Existence of a unique...

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Portfolio Selection with Probabilistic Utility, Bayesian Statistics, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Rossi, Pietro; Tavoni, Massimo; Cocco, Flavio; … - EconWPA - 2002

We propose a novel portfolio selection approach that manages to ease some of the problems that characterise standard expected utility maximisation. The optimal portfolio is no longer defined as the extremum of a suitably chosen utility function: the latter, instead, is reinterpreted as the...

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields …

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Methodology and Implementation of Value-at-Risk Measures in Emerging Fixed-Income Markets with Infrequent Trading.

Cortazar, Gonzalo; Bernales, Alejandro; Beuermann, Diether - EconWPA - 2005

This paper deals with the issue of calculating daily Value-at-Risk (VaR) measures within an environment of thin trading … issue for financial risk management in emerging markets. …

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A Rational Irrational Man

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A man is a key subject of economics and economic theory. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais … paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper … solution of these problems and the development of the economic theory. A radically new approach has been proposed. It considers …

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Rent stabilization and the long-run supply of housing

McFarlane, Alastair - EconWPA - 2001

This study contributes to the understanding of how the construction and replacement of urban housing may be affected by rent stabilization. One of the primary insights is that neither the timing nor the density of development will be affected by rent stabilization because allowing perfectly...

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THE ROLES OF MONEY IN AN ECONOMY AND THE OPTIMUM QUANTITY OF MONEY

Feige, Edgar L.; Parkin, M.; Avery, R; Stones, C. - EconWPA - 2005

What is the optimum quantity of money in a society? This paper answers this question both from the perspective of a utility maximizing model with real balances in the utility function, and employing an inventory theoretic model which focuses attention on the costs of transacting in different...

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Long-Run Cash-Flow and Discount-Rate Risks in the Cross-Section of US Returns

Koubouros, Michail; Malliaropulos, Dimitrios; … - EconWPA - 2005

Merton�s Intertemporal CAPM to test whether these four sources of risk command different risk prices. The model performs well …-price ratios and past risk. It generates high estimates for the explained cross-sectional variation in average returns, lower … coefficient of relative risk aversion. …

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Multifractal Modeling of the US Treasury Term Structure and Fed Funds Rate

Jamdee, Sutthisit; Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper identifies the Multifractal Models of Asset Return (MMARs) from the eight nodal term structure series of US Treasury rates as well as the Fed Funds rate and, after proper synthesis, simulates those MMARs. We show that there is an inverse persistence term structure in the sense that...

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