Zinsderivate wie Swaps, Caps, Forwards oder Futures ermöglichen auf vielfältige Weise das Management von Zinsrisiken. Die Bewertung dieser Kontrakte erscheint jedoch meist wesentlich schwieriger und anspruchsvoller als die Bewertung von Aktien- oder Währungsderivaten, da Anleihen besondere...

Die Bedeutung von Derivaten für Anleger auf Finanzmärkten nimmt zu. Gleichzeitig wird es immer wichtiger, bei der Entscheidung über Kauf und Verkauf derartiger Titel die Unsicherheit der zukünftigen Preisentwicklung zu berücksichtigen. Die Annahmen, die den bei der Analyse derartiger...

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...

Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular method to finance projects of every kind and scale. This contributed volume is one of the earliest books presenting scientific and research-based perspectives of crowdfunding, its development, and future. The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN)...

The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research, and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it...

This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR). To emphasize the importance of risk in conjunction with return, different tracking errors are analyzed and ex-post...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate...

Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only...