Die Einführung einer kapitalgedeckten Komponente innerhalb der ersten Säule des schwedischen Rentensystems zielt darauf ab, Überrenditen für Prämiensparer zu generieren, Risiken zu diversifizieren und die individuelle Vermögensallokation der Beitragszahler zu optimieren. Im Lichte der...

Se discute si las causas de las crisis financieras radican en el deterioro de la economía en los meses anteriores a las crisis o por el contrario, son producto del contagio de problemas que surgen en otras latitudes. Luego de la crisis de Asia en 1997, tanto los economistas como el público...

Schiffsinvestitionen haben in Deutschland eine lange Tradition und stellen für private Anleger — meist über geschlossene Fonds — und zunehmend auch für institutionelle Anleger eine bedeutende Form der Kapitalanlage dar. Trotz ihrer schon lange anhaltenden Beliebtheit und des hohen...

Australian Steve Keen was, in fact, one of just 13 registered economists , out of a global total of around 36,000 (yes that really comes out as 0.04%), who actually anticipated the global financial crisis.Knowing this, I think it’s almost impossible not to want to read his latest book,...

So-called cryptocurrencies have been in the news quite a lot recently, following Bitcoin trading on 1st September at US$4,904. For devotees of Bitcoin, this price action led to calls that it should now be taken seriously as a legitimate currency, whereas Jamie Dimon is among those who sees the...

This study aims to investigate the dynamic conditional correlation and volatility spillover between the conventional and Islamic stock markets in developed and emerging countries in order to develop better portfolio and asset allocation strategies. We used both multivariate GARCH (MGARCH) and...

The aim of the present paper is to connect sustainability with financial solutions designed to improve development in poor regions or developing countries. First part of the paper presents the concept of socially responsible investments (SRI) and their evolution in the last decades, emphasizing...

The market value of corporate stock in the United States increased by nearly one trillion dollars between December 1994 and July 1995. This paper explores the distribution of the stock ownership, and hence the gains from the stock price rise, and what the rise in stock prices implies for...

This paper develops a model of exchange rate dynamics that takes into account positions in foreign and domestic equities in addition to “standard” short-term riskless securities. The modeling of cross-country stock holdings is motivated by evidence that a large and ever-increasing proportion...

This paper models the value of "embedded" options in foreign bonds, using stochastic calculus, by assuming that the exchange rate follows a geometric Brownian motion process and the arrival time of an early redemption of the bond by the issuer conforms to a negative exponential distribution. The...