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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy 0 0 2 246 0 0 2 672
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 2 3 5 1,461 5 10 23 3,648
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 1 277 0 1 5 530
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 2 4 185 0 4 12 451
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 123
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 1 1 2 396 1 2 6 894
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 0 2 2 423
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 0 0 2 143
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 0 0 0 1,530 0 1 17 6,489
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 742
Dividend variability and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 1 203 0 0 1 488
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 0 1 3 696
Earnings variablility and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 145
Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions 0 0 1 1,390 0 0 4 2,937
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 0 1 60 0 0 4 261
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 0 0 2 1,106 0 2 11 2,290
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 3 1,252 2 4 21 4,830
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 1 2 5 219 1 5 18 476
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 5 428 0 0 19 1,122
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 1 19 0 0 5 51
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 428
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 1 2 8 2,361 1 3 18 14,676
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable 0 1 2 126 1 2 4 527
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 1 275 0 0 2 678
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 1 1 365 0 3 8 1,470
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 310 0 0 2 572
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 1 4 18 4,911 4 13 61 9,661
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 2 1,043 0 1 6 2,656
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 2 7 29 7,357
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 5 15 4,664 3 9 40 7,876
Pension Plan Integration as Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 147 0 0 1 852
Report on “The Committee on Yen Risk-free-rate Model Estimation†0 0 0 12 0 0 0 119
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 1 125 0 1 2 550
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 0 2 6 562
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 0 0 733 1 4 23 2,043
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 0 1 2 1,728
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 0 1 4 130
Total Working Papers 7 21 82 25,230 22 81 368 79,296


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 6 23 97 3,186
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 31
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 0 2 2 97
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 1 7 32 1,210 4 25 132 3,541
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 0 1 1 65
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 0 0 0 364
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 0 1 19 395 0 4 54 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 2 3 10 215 2 3 17 492
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 0 7 24 4,430 0 8 58 11,795
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 1 4 16 1,347 2 9 43 3,207
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 3 956 1 3 9 1,935
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 2 19 1 2 12 98
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 0 171 3 3 5 475
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 1 1 3 404 2 3 10 940
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 0 0 2 801
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 0 2 5 495
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1 2 15 683 2 6 33 1,276
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 0 0 9 457 2 7 24 1,013
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 0 1 10 482 1 6 60 1,483
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 0 2 9 215
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions 0 0 0 84 0 0 1 246
In Honor of Nobel Laureate, Franco Modigliani 0 0 0 73 1 1 1 300
International pension swaps 0 0 0 80 0 2 5 237
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 0 1 7 650 2 8 31 1,670
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 0 3 26 3,186 4 19 83 6,477
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 1 7 0 0 5 54
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 0 0 7 953
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 1 3 0 3 6 21
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 2 787 0 0 6 1,808
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 1 1 13 1,373 5 8 32 3,231
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 1 2 10 779 4 9 25 2,433
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 1 1 3 316 2 2 5 784
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 1,029
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 1 5 29 2,540 4 15 88 6,019
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 1 2 2 552 1 2 4 1,117
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 5 32 5,409 5 16 95 9,274
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 4 6 31 1,420 5 16 77 3,386
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 44
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 230
Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3
Reply to Benston and Kaufman 0 0 0 29 0 0 1 146
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 0 0 3 27 2 4 15 138
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 592
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 1 2 2 87 1 2 5 569
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 2 2 14 1,217 5 6 29 2,124
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 1 2 62 2 8 17 385
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 0 1 1 124 0 1 2 284
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market 0 0 1 62 0 0 2 313
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 0 2 8 321 0 2 12 859
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 1 4 476 0 1 7 1,208
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 2 316 0 0 10 968
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 1 2 75 0 2 6 190
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 3 7 58 10,133 11 29 187 22,658
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 1 1 1 2 3 4 4
Total Journal Articles 23 70 399 42,053 84 275 1,360 102,264


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 0 1 74 0 0 1 387
Total Books 0 0 1 74 0 0 1 387


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 0 441 1 1 3 2,134
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 0 0 1 18 0 3 10 109
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 0 5 128 2 5 30 453
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 1 3 6 300
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 107
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk Sharing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradable 0 0 0 80 0 3 12 190
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 2 356 1 2 10 1,162
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 0 2 8 506
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 0 0 3 165
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 26
Theory of rational option pricing 0 1 12 97 2 10 36 459
Total Chapters 0 1 22 1,475 7 29 130 5,611
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