Wie kommt es, dass in einer Ökonomie, in der jeder nach seinem eigenen Nutzen strebt, kein Chaos herrscht, sondern sich ein Zustand des Gleichgewichts einstellt? Diese verblüffende Frage beantwortete Adam Smith mit der Metapher der 'unsichtbaren Hand'. Seine Antwort wurde zur Initialzündung...

The purpose of General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance is to give a sound economic foundation of finance based on the general equilibrium model with incomplete markets which embodies the famous CAPM as an important special case. This goal is achieved by giving reasonable restrictions on the...

We compare asset allocations that are derived for cumulative prospect theory (CPT) based on two different methods: maximizing CPT along the mean {variance efficient frontier and maximizing CPT without this restriction. We find that with normally distributed returns, the difference between these...

The paper reviews a new research field that develops evolutionary and behavioural approaches for the modeling of financial markets. The main objective is to create a plausible alternative to the conventional Walrasian equilibrium theory based on the hypothesis of full rationality of market...