This paper compares the use of two different methodologies for merging data from different sources in developing or extending a microsimulation model. The first uses a relatively simple means-based methodology, and the second uses regression. The advantages and disadvantages of each are...

Contingent Claim Pricing with Applications to Financial Risk Management By Hua Chen 2008 Committee Chair: Samuel H. Cox and Shaun Wang Major Academic Unit: Department of Risk Management and Insurance This is a multi-essay dissertation designed to explore the contingent claim pricing theory with...

An important goal of financial risk regulation is promoting coordination. Law's coordinating function minimizes costly conflict and encourages greater uniformity among market participants. Likewise, privately developed market standards, such as standard-form contracts and rules incorporated into...

In his column, St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard downplays systemic risk to the financial system, given that failures of financial institutions would no longer be a surprise. (By now, the possibility of any failure is already being priced into the market.) As the shakeout of the industry...

Nowadays, firms disclose environmental information through environmental reports. These disclosures are necessary for insurance companies to face financial losses related to environmental incidents, in an attempt to achieve fair pricing for corporate insurance contracts, to evade any future...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a report -- New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk -- that presents key findings from a cross-disciplinary conference that it cosponsored in May 2006 with the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their...

President Pianalto discusses the economic outlook and the Federal Reserve’s recent actions, commenting on changes to the financial regulatory system. She makes the case for a new framework for categorizing financial institutions based on the degree of risk they pose to the financial system,...

Статья посвящена проблеме оценки эффективности управления финансовыми рисками на основании влияния факторов на рентабельность собственного капитала;...

Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 2, 2008