Ausgehend von einer allgemeinen Übersicht des US-amerikanischen Steuerrechts in Bezug auf Finanzierungen ist die steuerliche Abgrenzung zwischen Eigen- und Fremdkapital bei hybriden Finanzierungsinstrumenten in den Vereinigten Staaten zentrales Thema der Arbeit. Zusätzlich wird eine...

Der Bund als Schuldner war lange Zeit Derivaten als Gestaltungsinstrumenten der Schuldenstruktur wenig aufgeschlossen. Mit der Globalisierung der Kapitalmärkte ist jedoch ein Paradigmenwechsel beobachtbar. Wie der Autor zeigt, löst sich der Staat immer stärker von tradierten Denkmustern....

Weather derivatives are contingent claims with payo based on a pre-speci ed weather index. Firms exposed to weather risk can transfer it to nancial markets via weather derivatives. We develop a utility-based model for pricing baskets of weather derivatives in over-the-counter markets under...

That the global market for derivatives has expanded beyond recognition is well known. What is not know is how this market interacts with economic activity. We provide the first empirical characterization of interdependencies between OECD economic activity and the global OTC derivatives market....

We develop a model of illiquidity transmission from spot to futures markets that formalizes the derivative hedge theory of Cho and Engle (1999). The model shows that spot market illiquidity does not translate one to one to the futures market but, rather, interacts with price risk, liquidity...

Non-catastrophic weather risk is gaining importance as climate change becomes more pronounced and economic crisis forces companies to strengthen their cost control. Recent literature proposes weather derivatives as flexible weather risk mitigating tools. Only a handful of studies analysed the...

The theory and critique of capitalism is back at the center of scholarly debate. With it comes a growing awareness of the analytical and political importance of money and money creation. Moving from the more systemic reflections of Karl Marx to more recent work on money theory by Geoffrey Ingham...

Bank insolvency and failure -- Basic concepts in finance -- Behavioral finance -- Business finance -- Capital markets -- Cash & marketable securities -- Cash flow -- Common stock -- Corporate finance -- Corporate financial management -- Corporate financial strategy -- Debt valuation --...

The actuary and its environment -- Financial markets and their securities -- Forwards and futures -- Swaps -- Options -- Engineering basic options -- Engineering advanced derivatives -- Equity-linked insurance and annuities -- One-period binomial tree model -- Two-period binomial tree model --...

"The 2008 financial crisis shook the financial derivatives market to its core, revealing a failure to fully price the cost of doing business then. As a response to this, and to cope with regulatory demands for massively increased capital and other measures with funding cost, the pre-2008 concept...

This paper presents a comprehensive extension of pricing two-dimensional derivatives depending on two barrier constraints. We assume randomness on the covariance matrix as a way of generalizing. We analyse common barrier derivatives, enabling us to study parameter uncertainty and the risk...

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: "Modeling counterparty credit...

This paper investigates corporate hedging under regret aversion. Regret-averse firms try to avoid deviations of their hedging policy from the ex post best policy, an intuitive consideration if one has to justify one's decisions afterward. The study presents a model of a firm that faces uncertain...

Background: This article investigates the Least-Squares Monte Carlo Method by using different polynomial basis in American Asian Options pricing. The standard approach in the option pricing literature is to choose the basis arbitrarily. By comparing four different polynomial basis we show that...

This paper is the outcome of a related broader project, exploring the explanatory power of the Legal Theory of Finance, which proposes a new institution-based analytical framework for the analysis of phenomena of financial markets. One of its most important theoretical assumptions, the legal...

In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the model dimension of multi-regional...

This note discusses the basic economics of central clearing for derivatives and the need for a proper regulation, supervision and resolution of central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs). New regulation in the U.S. and in Europe renders the involvement of a central counterparty mandatory for...

This paper studies how the allocation of residual losses affects trading and welfare in a central counterparty. I compare loss sharing under two loss-allocation mechanisms - variation margin haircutting and cash calls - and study the privately and socially optimal degree of loss sharing. For...

This paper is the first to study the hedging of price risk with uncertain payment dates, a frequent problem in practice. It derives a variance-minimizing hedging strategy for two settings, the first employing linear contracts with different times to maturity and the second allowing for...

Titel -- Inhalt -- Die ersten Schritte -- Das ist wichtig bei der Geldanlage -- Das magische Dreieck der Geldanlage -- Die Rendite einer Anlage -- Sicherheit und Risiken -- Verfügbarkeit - Liquidität -- Wie bequem soll es sein? -- Nicht alle Eier in einen Korb -- Der erste Überblick -- So...