This paper demonstrates the application of cost effectiveness analysis and cost benefit analysis to alternative avalanche risk reduction strategies in Davos, Switzerland. The advantages as well as limitations of such analysis for natural hazards planning are discussed with respect to 16...

In this paper, we consider a security market in which two investors on different information levels maximize their expected logarithmic utility from terminal wealth. While the ordinary investor's portfolio decisions are based on a public information flow, the insider possesses from the beginning...

We consider a general stochastic model of frictionless continuous trading. The price process is a semimartingale and the model is incomplete. Our objective is to hedge contingent claims by using trading strategies with a small riskiness. To this end, we introduce a notion of local R-minimality...

Let L be a multidimensional Lévy process under P in its own filtration and consider all probability measures Q turning L into a local martingale. The minimal entropy martingale measure QE is the unique Q which minimizes the relative entropy with respect to P. We prove that L is still a Lévy...