Activist Ethics in Business -- Ethical and Democratic Evolution -- Activist Business Ethics in Christianity -- Activist Business Ethics in Judaism -- Activist Business Ethics in Other Religions -- Activist Business Ethics in Philosophy -- Psychological and Psychoanalytical Aspects -- International Aspects -- The Personification of Stakeholders -- The Predominance of Values and Ethics for CEOs -…
The Implied Volatility Surface -- Smile Consistent Volatility Models -- Smoothing Techniques -- Dimension-Reduced Modeling -- Conclusion and Outlook.The implied volatility surface is a key financial variable for the pricing and the risk management of plain vanilla and exotic options portfolios alike. Consequently, statistical models of the implied volatility surface are of immediate importance …
The statistics of asset allocation -- Univariate statistics -- Multivariate statistics -- Modeling the market -- Classical asset allocation -- Estimating the distribution of the market invariants -- Evaluating allocations -- Optimizing allocations -- Accounting for estimation risk -- Estimating the distribution of the market invariants -- Evaluating allocations -- Optimizing allocations.This en…
Portfolio Optimization -- One-Variable Optimization -- Optimal Portfolios with N Assets -- Unconstrained Optimization in N Variables -- The Steepest Descent Method -- The Newton Method -- Quasi-Newton Methods -- Conjugate Gradient Methods -- Optimal Portfolios with Restrictions -- Larger-Scale Portfolios -- Data-Fitting & The Gauss-Newton Method -- Equality Constrained Optimization -- Linear Eq…
Spot and Futures Markets -- An Introduction to Financial Derivatives -- Discrete-time Security Markets -- Benchmark Models in Continuous Time -- Foreign Market Derivatives -- American Options -- Exotic Options -- Volatility Risk -- Continuous-time Security Markets -- Fixed-income Markets -- Interest Rates and Related Contracts -- Short-Term Rate Models -- Models of Instantaneous Forward Rates -…
to Option Pricing -- Asset Pricing Basics -- Continuous-Time Models -- Black-Scholes -- Estimating and Modelling Volatility -- to Monte Carlo and Binomial Models -- Advanced Option Pricing -- Foreign Exchange -- Forward, Futures, and Exchange Options -- Exotic Options -- More on Monte Carlo and Binomial Valuation -- Finite Difference Methods -- Fixed Income -- Fixed Income Concepts -- to Fixed …
ETFs — A Leading Financial Innovation -- From Continent to Sectors: Challenges and Uses of ETFs in Europe -- Spiders: Where Are the Bugs? -- Xetra Active Funds (XAF) — More than “Just” Index Tracking -- The Role of Exchange Traded Funds in the Active vs. Passive Debate -- ETFs — Tactical Asset Allocation Tools -- Exchange Traded Funds from a Lawyer’s Perspective — The Case of Germ…
Stimulating the Economy of Southeast Europe -- Setting the Stage for Stability and Progress in Southeast Europe -- The Scenario for EU Accession by Southeast European Countries -- Infrastructure Finance, Accession, and Related Policy Issues in Southeast Europe -- Making It Easier to Do Business in Southeast Europe -- Financial Regulation for Stability and Protection in Southeast Europe -- Finan…
Basic Probability Theory and Markov Chains -- Estimation Techniques -- Non-Parametric Method of Estimation -- Unit Root, Cointegration and Related Issues -- VAR Modeling -- Time Varying Volatility Models -- State-Space Models (I) -- State-Space Models (II) -- Discrete Time Real Asset Valuation Model -- Discrete Time Model of Interest Rate -- Global Bubbles in Stock Markets and Linkages -- Forwa…
Executive Summary -- Methodology and Coverage of the Study -- Characteristics and Development of the Tax Systems -- The Effective Tax Burdens in the Assessed Countries -- International Comparison of Effective Tax Burdens -- Supplement: The Impact of Shareholder Taxation -- Summary and Conclusions.The tax burden on investment or companies is an important factor for the attractiveness of a countr…