Auch der Schweizer Finanzplatz wird sich im Zeichen des E-Commerce weiter verändern, um sich neuen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Wwer unter den alten und neuen Anbietern von Finanzdienstleistungen als Sieger aus diesem Transformationsprozess hervorgehen wird, ist schwierig zu prognostizieren...

Die folgende Vorlage will als Hilfe bei der Entwicklung, Formulierung und Überprüfung der Risikopolitk einer Bank dienen...

Praktiker wie Akademiker setzen sich im Allgemeinen mit Finanzrisiken vertieft auseinander und vernachlässigen dabei die übrigen Risiken. Damit geht ein unnötiger Wertverzehr einher...

Natural catastrophes attract regularly the attention of media and have become a source of public concern. From a financial viewpoint, natural catastrophes represent idiosyncratic risks,diversifiable at the world level. But for reasons analyzed in this pap er reinsurance markets are unable to...

In this paper we discuss some statistical pitfalls that may occur in modeling cross-dependences with copulas in financial applications. In particular we focus on issues arising in the estimation and the empirical choice of copulas as well as in the design of time-dependent copulas.

This paper argues that observations of non-stationary choice behavior need notnecessarily imply specific properties of the individual’s discount function. As weshow, the observed “anomalies” in intertemporal choice can alternatively be explained by an individual’s perception of the risk...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of bankruptcy law on financing, investment, default and liquidation decisions of firms. We build a model in which a firm can finance its investment by issuing debt. The investment is risky. Because of risk, the firm may default. The firm manager takes...

In spite of the fact that they can draw on a larger, more liquid and more diversifiedpool of capital than the equity of reinsurance companies, financial markets have failed to displace reinsurance as the primary risk-sharing vehicle for natural catastrophe risk. We show that this failure can be...