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...

This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques. In particular, it investigates the market microstructure of...

Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross-sectional variation in equity returns. He shows that an...

Risk: The Convergence -- Risk Management Everywhere -- Probability Elements: An Applied Refresher -- Multivariate Probability Distributions: Applications and Risk Models -- Temporal Risk Processes -- Risk Measurement -- Risk Valuation -- Risk Economics and the Extended CCAPM -- Risk Pricing...

Marken und Markenwert als Gegenstand der Untersuchung -- Unternehmenswertorientierte Konzepte der monetären Markenwertmessung -- Ermittlung des erwarteten markenspezifischen Cashflow -- Ermittlung des erwarteten risikoadäquaten markenspezifischen Kapitalisierungszinses -- Ermittlung des Tax...