Grundlagen der Optionspreistheorie -- Extrahierung der risikoneutralen Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktion -- Anwendungsgebiete risikoneutraler Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktionen -- Empirische Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen.

This article documents how the changing composition of U.S. publicly traded firms has prompted a decline in the long-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend-price ratio for such changes resolves several issues with respect to the...

Volatility clustering and fat tails are prominently observed in financial markets. Here, we analyze the underlying mechanisms of three agent-based models explaining these stylized facts in terms of market instabilities and compare them on empirical grounds. To this end, we first develop a...