This textbook emphasizes the applications of statistics and probability to finance. Students are assumed to have had a prior course in statistics, but no background in finance or economics. The basics of probability and statistics are reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as...

Theoretische Fundierung -- Ökonometrische Implikationen -- Untersuchungsmethoden -- Messung der relevanten Daten -- Stationarität und deskriptive Statistik -- Untersuchungsergebnisse -- Zusammenfassung, Beitrag und Ausblick.

This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns. The ZCAPM is derived from Fischer Black's well-known zero-beta CAPM, itself a more general form of the famous capital asset pricing model (CAPM)...