Der Erfolg eines Portfolios fußt auf die eingesetzten derivativen Instrumente und Investitionsstrategien. Mit dem Buch sollen die obigen Instrumente, deren Einsatz und Umsetzung in der Praxis des Asset Management aufgezeigt sowie etwaige Problemlösungen dargelegt werden. Das Buch unterscheidet...

This book is written in Chinese language. Options and futures are among the most important tools in today’s financial world. While the book focuses on the contracts traded on derivatives exchange – options and futures – we will also scrutinize the OTC-markets and exotic deals. Due to its...

This paper provides evidence that central bank interventions had a statistically significant impact on easing stress in unsecured interbank markets during the first phase of the subprime crisis which began in July 2007. Extraordinary liquidity provisions, such as the Term Auction Facility by the...

While the use of public resources is critical to cushion the impact of the financial crisis on the euro-area economy, it is key that the entailed fiscal costs not be seen by markets as undermining fiscal sustainability. From this perspective, to what extent do movements in euro area sovereign...

The global financial crisis revealed weaknesses in the stress testing exercises performed on financial institutions and systems around the world. These failures were most evident in the area of liquidity risk, where now-obvious vulnerabilities were left largely undetected, with stress tests...

Splines are an attractive way of flexibly modeling a regression curve since their basis functions can be included like ordinary covariates in regression settings. An overview of least squares regression using splines is presented including many graphical illustrations and comprehensive examples....