The paper focuses on the interaction between the solvency probability of a banking firm and the diversification potential of its asset portfolio when determining optimal equity capital. The purpose of this paper is to incorporate value at risk (VaR) into the firm-theoretical model of a banking...

According to many authors, so-called “central planning” had disappeared from European countries by 1989. However, this is by no means certain. Many former centrally planned economies still engage in central planning, in both the private and public sectors. Moreover, there is a striking...

"Innovations in Investment Management is a collection of papers presented at the 2006 Journal Of Investment Management Conference Series. Prominent authors and experts in the field provide the reader with a wide framework of cutting-edge research. The book spans a variety of topics including...