Due to a fast market development in volume and innovation on the structured products (certificates) side, critics are finding fault regarding a lack in transparency and comparability. However, certificates can provide characteristics for every market scenario as its explicit strength. The aim of...

Ziel der Analyse ist, die Quantifizierung möglicher Wertänderungen eines Portfolios aufgrund von Änderungen der Marktgrößen (Risikofaktoren, z.B. Zinsen, Kurse, Währungen). Während die SzenarioAnalyse (vgl. Basiswissen, Lektion 8, Abschnitt 8.4.3) von festen Änderungen der Risikofaktoren...

Mit diesem Jahresbericht legt die Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft (HfB) zum zweiten Mal eine Dokumentation ihrer akademischen Tätigkeiten des vergangenen Jahres vor. Der Bericht soll aber nicht nur über die vielfältigen Aktivitäten Auskunft geben, sondern auch zum Gedankenaustausch mit allen...

Convertible bond issues increase considerably since 1990. The paper shows that these issues are more than just the combination of a bond and an option. The pricing depends on the share price, the shares volatility, the interest rate, and the interest volatility , the credit spread, and the...

Within the last decade sizeable capital inflows from mature economies were accompanied by rapid financial deepening in the Western Balkans, Turkey and the CIS. Notwithstanding their considerably different initial positions most countries sustained financial stability in the first period of the...

One major outcome of the review of the ECBs two pillar monetary policy strategy, which was published on 8 May 2003, has been the de facto downgrading of the hitherto prominent role assigned to the stock of money. According to the authors judgement, however, there is a strong theoretical and...

This paper studies 'Stylised Facts' and 'Determinants' of short-and long-term CDS-spreads of banks. As short-term spreads we choose 6M-, as long-term spreads we choose 5Y-spreads. In the section 'Stylised Facts' we found that the correlation between short-and long-term spreads for the total...

This paper deals with the problem of interpolation of discount factors between time buckets. The problem occurs when price and interest rate data of a market segment are assigned to discrete time buckets. A simple criterion is developed in order to identify arbitrage-free robust interpolation...

Die theoretischen Grundlagen der modernen Portfoliotheorie haben in der Vergangenheit einen zunehmenden Einfluss auf die Verwaltung von Vermögen genommen. Insbesondere Wertpapierportfolios werden mit quantitativen Ansätzen gesteuert. Die zentralen Größen sind hierbei Rendite und Risiko. Vor...