Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What We Should Know to Value a Company -- 1.2 Valuation Methods: An Overview -- 1.2.1 Common Practices in the Accounting and Financial Communities -- 1.2.2 Approach of...

We investigate a neoclassical economy with heterogeneous agents, convex technologies and idiosyncratic production risk. Combined with precautionary savings, investment risk generates rich effects that do not arise in the presence of pure endowment risk. Under a finite horizon, multiple growth...

Author's abstract. In nonlinear state-space models, sequential learning about the hidden state can proceed by particle filtering when the density of the observation conditional on the state is available analytically (e.g. Gordon et al. 1993). This condition need not hold in complex environments,...

Author's abstract. This paper investigates the determinants of financial risk-taking and documents new facts on the financial wealth elasticity of the risky share in a panel of swedish twins. <p>We consider a uniquely comprehensive set of demographic and financial characteristics, and use yearly...</p>

We investigate a neoclassical economy with heterogeneous agents, convex technologies and idiosyncratic production risk. Combined with precautionary savings, investment risk generates rich effects that do not arise in the presence of pure endowment risk. Under a finite horizon, multiple growth...