In this master thesis a mechanism to test mononicity of empirical pricing kernels (EPK) is presented. By testing monotonicity of pricing kernel we can determine whether utility function is concave or not. Strictly decreasing pricing kernel corresponds to concave utility function while...

This master thesis is devoted to Classification and Regression Trees (CART). CART is classification method which uses historical data to construct decision trees. Depending on available information about the dataset, classification tree or regression tree can be constructed. Constructed tree can...

Stock picking is the field of financial analysis that is of particular interest for many professional investors and researchers. There is a lot of research evidence supporting the fact that stock returns can effectively be forecasted. While various modeling techniques could be employed for stock...

This study gives an outline of modern theory of classification and regression trees (CART) and shows the advantages of CART applications in finance. Practical issues regarding CART applications and core implementation are presented. The second part of the work is mainly concentrated on DAX30...

Seit der Entdeckung der arbitragefreien Bewertung hat sich das Gebiet finance grundlegend geändert - sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Anwendung. Märkte für Derivate haben sich entwickelt und Optionen dienen heutzutage als Basis- und als Absicherungsinstrumente. In dieser Dissertation...