Many bond portfolio managers argue that bond laddering tends to outperform other bond investment strategies because it reduces both market price risk and reinvestment risk for a bond portfolio in the presence of interest rate uncertainty. Despite the popularity of bond ladders as a strategy for...

The two-fund separation theorem from static portofolio analysis generalizes to dynamic Lucas-style asset models only whern a consol is present. If all bonds have finite maturity and do not span the consol, then equilibrium will deviate, often significantly, from two-fund separation even with the...

In many studies involving complex representation of the Earth's climate, the number of runs for the particular model is highly restricted and the designed set of input scenarios has to be reduced correspondingly. Furthermore, many integrated assessment models, in particular those focusing on...