The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to...

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...

This book criticizes the fact that profitability measures derived from capital market models such as the Sharpe ratio and the reward-to-VaR ratio are proposed for loan portfolios, although it is not proven whether their risk-return trade-offs are optimal for banks. The authors demonstrate that...

Markowitz for the Masses: Portfolio Construction Techniques -- Markowitz for the Masses: The Risk and Return of Equity and Portfolio Construction Techniques -- Markowitz and the Expanding Definition of Risk: Applications of Multi-factor Risk Models -- Markowitz Applications in the 1990s and the...

Als Reaktion auf die Schwächen des Value-at-Risk-Konzeptes wurden in der Literatur axiomatische Risikomessansätze als Alternative vorgeschlagen. Mario Brandtner charakterisiert die diesen Ansätzen zugrunde liegenden Risikoverständnisse und präsentiert Techniken zu deren Umsetzung bei der...

Preface -- Credibility Theory -- Credibilistic Programming -- Mathematical Programming -- Expected Value Model -- Chance-Constrained Programming -- Entropy Maximization Model -- Cross-Entropy Minimization Model -- Regret Minimization Model

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...

A major theme of this book is the development of a consistent unified model framework for the evaluation of bond options. In general options on zero bonds (e.g. caps) and options on coupon bearing bonds (e.g. swaptions) are linked by no-arbitrage relations through the correlation structure of...

This book provides a modular pricing framework which allows the valuation of interest-rate derivatives in a general jump-diffusion setup. Starting with a comparison of three Fourier-style pricing methodologies, the book covers the derivation of Fourier-transform based solutions for different...

Investigates the dynamic welfare effects of exposure to trade in a new trade model. This book uses a new trade model to explore which country-specific conditions give rise to horizontal or vertical multinational activity. It analyzes the role of goods trade and horizontal multinational firms in...