Nichts ist so beständig wie der Wandel. Diese Aussage trifft insbesondere für die nationalen und internationalen Finanzmärkte zu, die in den letzten Jahren eine Vielzahl von Innovationen, aber auch aufsichtsrechtliche Neuerungen (z.B. MaK) und weiterentwickelte, moderne Methoden des Pricings,...

Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it hastypically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate a time-varying measure of riskaversion that is based on the observed risk...

Finance theory does not provide a comprehensive framework for explaining risk management within the imperfect financial environment in which firms operate. Corporate managers, however, rank risk management as one of their most important objectives. Therefore, it is not surprising that papers on...