Die letzte Leitzinserhöhung der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) birgt ein Risiko: Noch nie war das Inflationsdifferential in der Eurozone zum Zeitpunkt einer Zinserhöhung so hoch wie heute. In einem solchen Umfeld kann die Zinspolitik kontraproduktiv wirken. Der Beitrag erläutert Konsequenzen...

Griechenland ist gerettet - zumindest vorerst. Nach den Beschlüssen des Euro-Sondergipfels vom 21. Juli 2011 stehen dem Land zusätzliche Finanzmittel von über 100 Mrd. Euro zur Verfügung, die es erlauben, die aktuellen Löcher bei der Refinanzierung der Staatsschulden zu stopfen. Doch ist...

There is a fear that if Turkey were given admission to the EU massive migration to the other member countries of the EU would result. This paper develops a theoretical framework for the migration decision that takes into consideration the impact on uncertainty of some of the important economic...

Contingent claims with payoffs depending on finitely many asset prices are modeled as elements of a separable Hilbert space. Under fairly general conditions, including market completeness, it is shown that one may change measure to a reference measure under which asset prices are Gaussian and...

European call options are priced when the uncertainty driving the stock price follows the V. G. stochastic process (Madan and Seneta 1990). The incomplete markets equilibrium change of measure is approximated and identified using the log return mean. variance, and kurtosis. An exact equilibrium...