In general, individuals will be interested in consumption of goods with “original”prices denominated in various currencies. Traditional risk management is nominally orientedand typically neglects this differentiated consumption preferences of investors. We outline therelevance of a consumption...

Belief elicitation in economics experiments usually relies on paying subjects according to the accuracy of stated beliefs in addition to payments for other decisions. Such incentives, however, allow risk-averse subjects to hedge with their stated beliefs against adverse outcomes of other...

We propose a simplified approach to mean-variance portfolio problems by changingtheir parametrisation from trading strategies to final positions. This allows us to treat,under a very mild no-arbitrage-type assumption, a whole range of quadratic optimisationproblems by simple mathematical tools...

We provide a representation for the nonmyopic optimal portfolio of an agentconsuming only at the terminal horizon when the single state variable follows ageneral diusion process and the market consists of one risky asset and a risk-freeasset. The key term of our representation is a new object...

As past research suggest, currency exposure risk is a main source of overall risk of international diversified portfolios. Thus, controlling the currency risk is an important instrument for controlling and improving investment performance of international investments. This study examines the...

In this paper we analyse the mean-variance hedging approach in an incomplete market under the assumption of additional market information, which is represented by a given, finite set of observed prices of non-attainable contingent claims. Due to no-arbitrage arguments, our set of investment...

Optionen und andere Derivate erfreuen sich wachsender Beliebtheit bei einer Vielzahl von Unternehmen, welche mit deren Hilfe Absicherungsgeschäfte vornehmen, spekulieren oder an deren Handel verdienen. Für all diese Motive bilden Bewertungsmodelle die Grundlage, um damit den fairen Wert...

A discrete time model of financial markets is considered. It is assumed that the stock price evolution is described by a homogeneous Markov chain. In the focus of attention is the expected value of the guaranteed profit of the investor that arises when the jumps of the stock price are bounded....

The art market has seen boom and bust during the last years and, despite the downturn, has received more attention from investors given the low interest environment following the financial crisis. However, participation has been reserved for a few investors and the hedging of exposures remains...

Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...