This paper provides a brief review of the connecting literature in management science, economics and finance, and discusses some research that is related to the three disciplines. Academics could develop theoretical models and subsequent econometric models to estimate the parameters in the...

Der Einführungszeitpunkt der Abgeltungsteuer zum 1.1.2009 war schon lange in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt. Der Kapitalmarkttheorie folgend wäre bei vollständiger Verarbeitung der bekannten Informationen zu erwarten gewesen, dass die Marktteilnehmer die mit der Abgeltungsteuer verbundene...

Die Mehrheit des globalen Finanzvermögens wird heute von professionellen Asset Managern investiert, welche häufig vergleichbare Prozesse und quantitative Techniken anwenden. Dies trifft vor allem auf die strategische Asset-Allokation auf Asset-Klassen, Regionen und Währungen zu. Am weitesten...

We explore the term structures of claims to a variety of cash flows: U.S. government bonds (claims to dollars), foreign government bonds (claims to foreign currency), inflation-adjusted bonds (claims to the price index), and equity (claims to future equity indexes or dividends). Average term...

Policy-makers are currently debating whether asset-pricing dynamics can, or should, be managed in the public interest. This initiative delves into the mechanisms of asset pricing to learn how to detect when and why bubbles emerge and how consequences can be mitigated. In its 2nd year, the...

In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the influx of news related to traded assets in international financial markets. This financial news is now available via print media but also through real-time online sources such as internet news and social media sources. The increase in the...

In the face of interest rates having hit their zero lower bound in major economies, large-scale asset purchases have become an important weapon of central banks in recent years. It is, however, not clear whether and under which circumstances such policy measures produce the desired effects. This...

Many economic and financial time series exhibit time-varying volatility. GARCH models are tools for forecasting and analyzing the dynamics of this volatility. The co-movements in financial markets and financial assets around the globe have recently become the main area of interest of financial...

Building blocks -- It's dilemma -- Stochastic differential equations -- The factor model approach to arbitrage pricing -- Constructing a factor pricing framework -- Equity derivatives -- Interest and credit derivatives -- Hedging -- Computation of solutions -- The road to risk neutrality -- Index

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1: Foundations of financial economics: the key role of the Gaussian distribution -- Chapter 2: Extreme values in financial economics: from their observation to their integration into the Gaussian framework -- Chapter 3. New tools for extreme-value...

Finanzmärkte sind heute wesentlicher Teil des Wirtschaftslebens und zugleich bedeutendes Phänomen der modernen Gesellschaft. Warum gibt es Finanzmärkte und wozu dienen sie? Wer nimmt an Märkten teil? Nach welchen Gesichtspunkten werden Finanzentscheidungen getroffen und Portfolios gebildet?...