In 2004 the Basel Committee published an extensive revision of the capital charges whichcreates more risk sensitive capital requirements for banks. The New Accord called “InternationalConvergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standard” provides in its first pillarfor a finer measurement...

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find...

ARMA-GARCH-Modellierung; nicht-Normalität; normal-inverse Gauss-Verteilung (NIG-Verteilung); realisierte Momente; Staatsanleihen; Strom Forwards; stylized facts von Finanzzeitreihen; Value at Risk; Verteilung von Anleiherenditen

In dieser Arbeit wird der Einfluss der Anlagedauer auf die strategische Asset Allokation untersucht. Als Modell wird ein Anleger angenommen, der sein Geld am Anfang auf eine Aktie (die ein Aktienportfolio repr?sentiert) und eine Anleihe aufteilt und bis zum Ende das Portfolio nicht umschichtet,...

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich, known as the Pareto power-law,...

This chapter deals with the estimation of risk neutral distributions for pricing index options resulting from the hypothesis of the risk neutral valuation principle. After justifying this hypothesis, we shall focus on parametric estimation methods for the risk neutral density functions...