This paper provides a discussion about some recent issues related to the transfer of credit risk (CRT) from the perspective of global liquidity. The CRT market is enormously growing and exhibits major structural shifts in terms of buyers and sellers of protection. I try to address these issues...

Die Dissertation umfasst drei Artikel aus den Bereichen Asset Liability Management und Asset Management. Im ersten Artikel entwerfen wir einen Liability Benchmark, welcher zur Beurteilung der Anlage von Pensionskassen dient. Die relative Rendite der Strategischen Asset Allokation (SAA) im...

This study provides an in-depth analysis of how to estimate risk-neutral moments robustly. A simulation and an empirical study show that estimating risk- neutral moments presents a trade-off between (1) the bias of estimates caused by a limited strike price domain and (2) the variance of...