Investors hold equity in tax-exempt savings vehicles such as pension plans, despite the prediction of the standard model that they hold only bonds. We provide a new explanation for this empirical puzzle based on differences between pensions and taxable assets in the tax treatment of capital...

Terms, definitions and short essays -- Deposit insurance schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium -- Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds -- Intertemporal risk and currency risk -- Credit derivatives -- international parity conditions...

Gesetzliche Krankenversicherungen dürfen nach derzeitiger Auffassung des Bundesversicherungsamts aus Risikogründen Pensionsrückstellungen nicht in Form von Aktien anlegen. In der Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass in der hierfür maßgeblichen Gesetzesgrundlage (§80 Sozialgesetzbuch IV) bereits auch...

A comprehensive look at how probability and statistics is applied to the investment process Finance has become increasingly more quantitative, drawing on techniques in probability and statistics that many finance practitioners have not had exposure to before. In order to keep up, you need a firm...