With the introduction of the JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investments in City Areas) Initiative, the European Commission aimed at strongly enhancing investments in urban areas to meet the steadily increasing requirements, arising from urbanisation, for European cities. One...

Derivative financial instruments are frequently used as a tool for influencing the risk of entrepreneurial uncertain payoff. To this end, an approximation procedure is developed capable of calculating the optimal quantity of derivatives to be used. It is assumed that the entrepreneurial cash...

The main goal of this work is the generalization of the approach of Jobson and Korkie for funds performance evaluation. Therefore, the paper considers the portfolio selection problem of an investor who faces short sales restrictions when choosing among F different investment funds and assumes...

We present a citation-based analysis of the most important journals on real estate and real estate finance over a time period from 1986 to 2010. For each year, those three articles with the highest number of citations according to Google Scholar are identified. A thorough analysis of all 75...

We consider investors with mean-variance-skewness preferences who aim at selecting one out of F different funds and combining it optimally with the riskless asset and direct stock holdings. Direct stock holdings are either exogenously or endogenously determined. In our theoretical section, we...

This article jointly analyses a behavioural and a cultural concept to explain household debt portfolio choice. The behavioural approach explores the role of time preferences on household debt maturity in a theoretical model and a numerical analysis. We derive a positive relationship between the...

Coherent measures of a bank's whole risk capital imply a structure of a bank's optimal credit portfolio that is independent of its deposits and the expected deposit rate, of expected bankruptcy costs and of expected costs of regulatory capital.

Our main goal is the generalization of the approach of Jobson and Korkie(1984) for funds performance evaluation. Therefore, we consider the portfolio selection problem of an investor who faces short sales restrictions when choosing among F different investment funds and assume the investor's...

Investors need performance measures particularly as a means for funds selection in the process of exante portfolio optimization. Unfortunately, there are various performance measures recommended for different decision situations. Since an investor may be uncertain which kind of decision problem...

The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selection approach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyze the consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts' dividend forecasts under the explicit...