Wer mit dem Begriff ART konfrontiert wird, denkt vielleicht zunächst einmal andas Metropolitan Museum of Art, Clip-Art, Body-Art, Optical Art, Art déco,vielleicht auch noch an Pop Art und Roy Lichtenstein oder Artensterben undArtenschutz. Nur die wenigsten werden mit diesem Akronym moderne...

The aim of this study is to examine the underlying dimensions of self-stated attitudesand behaviour concerning everyday financial affairs, and classify individuals basedon those dimensions. A questionnaire was answered by 1282 respondents in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The sample of...

Qualitätsmanagement ist wieder in aller Munde. Der Spielzeugwarenhersteller Mattel war erst unlängst gezwungen, 21 Millionen in China produzierte Spielzeuge zurückzurufen. Die Gründe lagen beispielsweise in unzulässig hohem Bleigehalt in den Farben und in der Verschluckungsgefahr von...

Over recent years, study on risk management has been prompted by the Basel committee for regular banking supervisory. There are however limitations of some widely-used risk management methods that either calculate risk measures under the Gaussian distributional assumption or involve numerical...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of capital and risk transfer instruments on diversification and insolvency risk in a parent-subsidiary relationship. To better assess the effects, we compare this setting to the case of a holding company and an integrated financial group. In the...

Risk management technology applied to high dimensional portfolios needs simple and fast methods for calculation of Value-at-Risk (VaR). The multivariate normal framework provides a simple off-the-shelf methodology but lacks the heavy tailed distributional properties that are observed in data. A...

In the work of the Basel Committee there has been a tradition ofdistinguishing market from credit risk and to treat both categories independentlyin the calculation of risk capital. In practice positionsin a portfolio depend simultaneously on both market and credit riskfactors. In this case, an...