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...

Weather derivatives are contingent claims with payoff based on a pre-specified weather index. Firms exposed to weather risk can transfer it to financial markets via weather derivatives. We develop a utility-based model for pricing baskets of weather derivatives under default risk on the issuer...

The global economic crisis and deep financialization processes recently suffered by the real estate market have exposed the latter to further and greater risks. Against this, the importance of real estate risk management has noticeably grown within the dynamics of both markets, real estate and...

In previous works, the importance of risk management implementation was addressed with regard to the problem of bankruptcy threat, with the explanation of risk impact on higher bankruptcy costs or the underinvestment problem. However, the evaluation of the impact of risk outcomes is technically...

In uncertain food safety environments, the suppliers of food raw materials (FRM) are facing crucial food safety issues. Therefore, this article aims to probe the risk-averse attitude of FRM suppliers in the face changing marketing environments, in order to establish a decision-making theory as a...

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...