Recent empirical studies suggest a downward sloping term structure of Sharpe ratios. We present a theoretical framework in continuous time that can cope with such a non-flat forward curve of risk prices. The approach departs from an arbitrage-free and incomplete market setting when different...

Neoclassical financial models provide the foundation for our understanding of finance. This chapter introduces the main ideas of neoclassical finance in a single-period context that avoids the technical difficulties of continuous-time models, but preserves the principal intuitions of the...

Chapter 1: Portfolio Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: Capital Market Conditions -- Chapter 3: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) -- Chapter 4: The Market Model -- Chapter 5: The Zero-Beta CAPM -- Chapter 6: Alternative CAPM Specifications -- Chapter 7: Arbitrage Pricing Theory -- Chapter 8:...

This book is a collection of papers for the Special Issue "Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance" of the journal Mathematics. This Special Issue reflects on the latest developments in different fields of economics and finance where mathematics plays a significant role. The book gathers...