Performance measurement is an area of crucial interest in asset valuation and investment management. High volatility as well as time aggregation of returns, amongst other characteristics, may distort the results of conventional measures of performance. In this work, we study the performance of...

Heterogeneous beliefs among market participants can lead to questionable speculative trading that goes beyond any risk-sharing motives. We demonstrate that such unwarranted betting behavior in market equilibrium can be mitigated by introducing nonlinear pricing for ambiguous contracts, without...

This paper focuses on Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficiency in a finite empirical panel data. We analytically characterize the sets of unsorted time series that dominate a given evaluated distribution by the First, Second, and Third order SD. Using these insights, we develop simple Linear...

Socially responsible investors pursue both financial and non-financial goals. In this paper, we attempt to assess the performance of French socially responsible mutual funds (SRMFs). We consider the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, which allows us to assign a unique efficiency score...

In goals-based wealth management (GBWM), an investor looks to maximize the probabilities of attaining each of n goals over time. Because the goals are in competition for potentially limited financial resources, their relative importance must be specified, which we do by assigning utility weights...

The paper uses a real option approach to investigate the impact of performance-based risk-sharing agreements for the reimbursement of new drugs in comparison with standard cost-effectiveness thresholds. The results show that the exact definition of the risk-sharing agreement is key in...

Outsourcing to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) has become a widespread practice by pharmaceutical and biotechnological firms seeking to reduce risks and costs associated to the development of new products. This paper analyzes empirically the efficiency of the CROs industry by looking at a...

We characterize a range of Stochastic Dominance relations by means of finite systems of convex inequalities. For 'SD optimality' of degree N=1, 2, 3, 4 and 'SD efficiency' of degree N=2, 3, 4, 5, we obtain exact systems that can be implemented using Linear Programming or Convex Quadratic...

Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex-ante, during and/or ex-post their lifetime, is receiving increasing attention from international institutions and organisations. The task becomes particularly challenging when...

I investigate the question of how to construct a portfolio consisting of a few securities that an investor can use to track a benchmark. I consider two approaches: a sequential stepwise regression and another method based on factor models of security returns. The first approach produces the...