The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....

Introduction -- The Revived Interest in the Problems of Income and Wealth Distribution -- Re-incorporating Distributional Issues Into the Main Body of Economic Analysis -- Aim and Contents of this Book -- The Parametric Approach to Income and Wealth Distributional Analysis -- The Idea of a...

1 Quantile Regression: An Overview. 2 Linear and Nonparametric Quantile Regression -- 3 A Quantile Regression Analysis of Assessment Regressivity.-4 Quantile Version of the Spatial AR Model -- 5 . Conditionally Parametric Quantile Regression.- 6 Guide to Further Reading -- References

Dieses Buch vermittelt anschaulich und leicht verständlich die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsstatistik (Mathematische Voraussetzungen, Beschreibende und Schließende Statistik, Datenanalyse), die für empirische Aufgabenstellungen, Datenaufbereitung, Ergebnisinterpretation und den Einsatz von...

Grundlagen der Optionspreistheorie -- Extrahierung der risikoneutralen Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktion -- Anwendungsgebiete risikoneutraler Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktionen -- Empirische Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen.

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich, known as the Pareto power-law,...

Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...

Investors are trying to generate excess returns through active investment strategies. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, investors face a situation where increased risks are accompanied by falling key interest rates. An optimal portfolio in terms of risk and return becomes a perpetual...