We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...

Der Beitrag stellt ein Verfahren zur Schätzung des Loss Given Default (LGD) von Leasingverträgen vor. Die typisch multimodale Form von LGD-Verteilungen im Leasing lässt sich nicht durch Klassifikation nach Objektarten, Kundentypen, Laufzeiten oder Ausfallzeitpunkten erklären. Folglich ist...

Die Finanzmarktkrise hat Schwächen in der Bankenaufsicht deutlich werden lassen. Der Artikel befasst sich mit vier Ansatzpunkten für eine Weiterentwicklung der Bankenaufsicht: Benötigt wird eine stärker an Prinzipien orientierte Bankenaufsicht anstatt starrer Regeln für die...

In this paper we investigate portfolio optimization under Value at Risk, Average Value at Risk and Limited Expected Loss constraints in a continuous time framework, where stocks follow a geometric Brownian motion. Analytic expressions for Value at Risk, Average Value at Risk and Limited Expected...

The recent financial crisis triggered the greatest recession since the 1930s and had a devastating impact on households' wealth and on their capacity to reduce their indebtedness. In the aftermath, it became clear that there is significant room for improvement in property risk management. While...

Unlike delta-hedging or similar methods based on Greeks, global hedging is an approach that optimizes some terminal criterion that depends on the difference between the value of a derivative security and that of its hedging portfolio at maturity or exercise. Global hedging methods in discrete...

Agricultural income volatility has become a major hurdle for Irish farmers and policymakers to overcome in their drive to increase investment, production and ultimately income in the sector. This paper studies data from 927 farms in the Teagasc National Farm Survey between 2005 and 2013, the...

The real estate market of EU countries has undergone a severe global financial crisis 2008-2009, recovered successfully later, and now experiencing significant uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic event. Significant volatility of the real estate business is once again evident, just as it was...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us to live in social isolation and has brought an important element of social life, the events industry, to a complete standstill. In resurrecting the events industry, the most urgent focus is on managing the risk of any crowd-control measures with a view to...