We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...

Weather variables, and sunshine in particular, are found to be strongly correlated with financial variables. I consider self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting...

This paper proposes an index for determining those banking institution in Mexico that should transfer their credit card portfolios risk credit through Asset Back-Securities (ABSs). This is done recurring to models for predicting insolvency developed by Robert Altman (1968) and Discriminant...

This paper has a twofold result: 1) It develops an analytical solution (closed-form solution) for the minimization of tracking error. 2) It shows that, notwithstanding that minimization is relatively easy to achieve with numerical algorithms, the analytical solution considerably reduces CPU...

This paper has a twofold result: 1) It develops an analytical solution (closed-form solution) for the minimization of tracking error. 2) It shows that, notwithstanding that minimization is relatively easy to achieve with numerical algorithms, the analytical solution considerably reduces CPU...

Esta obra es una novedad en la literatura económica colombiana porque es un análisis financiero de un problema que nos compete a todos los colombianos, el de las pensiones, llevado a cabo con altos estándares de calidad técnica y responsabilidad. El esfuerzo que han hecho Juan Mario Laserna...

A discrete time model of financial markets is considered. It is assumed that the stock price evolution is described by a homogeneous Markov chain. In the focus of attention is the expected value of the guaranteed profit of the investor that arises when the jumps of the stock price are bounded....

A discrete time model of financial markets is considered. It is assumed that the relative jumps of the risky security price are independent non-identically distributed random variables. In the focus of attention is the expected non-risky profit of the investor that arises when the jumps of the...

The art market has seen boom and bust during the last years and, despite the downturn, has received more attention from investors given the low interest environment following the financial crisis. However, participation has been reserved for a few investors and the hedging of exposures remains...