In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

In dieser Arbeit werden weltweit wichtige Aktienkursindizes (AI´s) dargestellt, wobei eine axiomatische Untersuchung im Vordergrund steht. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist hierbei die Struktur, d.h. auch insbesondere die verwendeten Indexformeln und die eingesetzten Korrekturmethoden für den Fall...

When using derivative instruments such as futures to hedge a portfolio of risky assets, the primary objective is to estimate the optimal hedge ratio (OHR). When agents have mean-variance utility and the futures price follows a martingale, the OHR is equivalent to the minimum variance hedge...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite stock price index at the Jakarta Stock Exchange in 2007 - 2009. The method of analysis used to investigate the effect of the rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite...

Identifying a suitable benchmark is essential when testing asset pricing models, measuring the performance of active investors, or providing market proxy portfolios for passive investors. Concern that increased domination of capitalization weighted stock indices by a few large firms will lead to...

This paper investigates the hypotheses that the recently established Mexican stock index futures market effectively serves the price discovery function, and that the introduction of futures trading has provoked volatility in the underlying spot market. We test both hypotheses simultaneously with...

Recent and presumable future developments tend to increase the risk associated with farming activities. This causes an increasing importance of risk management. Farmers have a wide variety of possibilities to influence the risk exposure of their operations. Among them are the choice of the...

Portfolio selection has a long tradition in financial economics and plays an integral role in investment management. Portfolio selection provides the framework to determine optimal portfolio choice from a universe of available investments. However, the asset weightings from portfolio selection...

This paper investigates the farm level impacts of multiple peril yield and revenue insurance in an expected value-variance framework. The analysis is conducted using stochastic simulation jointly with numerical optimisation. Simulation is used to compute the means and variances of revenues as...