ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on banking book interest rate risk management, more specifically shortterminterest rate risk management problems. This type of risk is induced by the inflationtargeting policy of the South African Reserve Bank. As a result, inflation leads to an...

Thesis (MComm (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.

I exploit a natural experiment in South Korea to examine the real effects of macroprudential foreign exchange (FX) regulations designed to reduce risk-taking by financial intermediaries. By using crossbank variation in the regulation's tightness, I show that it causes a reduction in the supply...

The field of computational finance is evolving ever faster. This book collects a number of novel contributions on the use of computational methods and techniques for modelling financial asset prices, returns, and volatility, and on the use of numerical methods for pricing, hedging, and risk...

Chapter 1 Preliminaries -- Chapter 2 Risk and Expected Utility -- Chapter 3 Market Pricing and Market E ciency -- Chapter 4 Modern Portfolio Theory -- Chapter 5 Asset Pricing -- Chapter 6 Introduction to Derivatives -- Chapter 7 Arbitrage and Model-free Pricing Methods- Chapter 8 Modelling,...

Suppose that a group of agents having divergent expectations can share risks efficiently. We examine how this group should behave collectively to manage these risks. We show that the beliefs of the representative agent is in general a function of the group.s wealth level, or equivalently, that...

This study sets out a new methodology to exemplify, through a set of risk metrics called the Greeks, impact of a bond’s structured provisions (e.g., call, put, and conversion options) on its risk characteristics and its propensity for agency conflicts. The methodology is assessed by applying...