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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy 0 0 0 246 7 12 13 685
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 0 1 6 1,464 5 19 42 3,680
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 6 8 10 539
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 3 186 1 4 10 457
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 5 6 13 136
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 6 10 15 907
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 3 4 7 428
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 3 4 5 148
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 0 1 2 1,532 2 10 17 6,505
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 746
Dividend variability and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 203 7 11 13 501
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 3 5 8 703
Earnings variablility and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 34 2 2 3 148
Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions 0 1 2 1,392 5 10 19 2,956
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 1 1 61 4 6 6 267
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 2 3 3 1,109 9 19 28 2,316
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 1 1,253 26 60 127 4,953
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 0 428 3 6 6 1,128
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 2 219 3 4 12 483
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 7 8 10 61
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 2 6 9 437
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 0 2 5 2,364 5 12 19 14,692
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable 0 0 1 126 1 5 10 535
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 0 275 4 7 9 687
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 0 4 368 5 7 14 1,481
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 1 311 4 9 10 582
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 4 8 22 4,929 17 47 85 9,733
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 0 1,043 6 15 18 2,673
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 4 10 24 7,374
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 3 14 4,673 10 44 83 7,950
Pension Plan Integration as Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 147 4 7 7 859
Report on “The Committee on Yen Risk-free-rate Model Estimation†0 0 0 12 2 4 7 126
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 2 5 8 568
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 6 8 14 563
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 1 4 737 7 14 34 2,073
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 2 4 9 1,736
Trust in Lending 0 0 0 63 9 16 23 152
Total Working Papers 8 21 72 25,281 201 432 753 79,968


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 22 44 118 3,281
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 1 8 3 5 8 38
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 5 5 8 103
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 1 7 15 1,218 29 56 121 3,637
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 3 6 9 73
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 4 6 8 372
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 0 2 3 397 2 10 14 1,009
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 1 6 218 3 12 22 511
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 0 3 16 4,439 29 42 80 11,867
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 1 6 19 1,362 11 23 52 3,250
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 1 1 957 6 8 18 1,950
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 8 13 19 115
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 1 172 2 4 12 484
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 3 5 10 947
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 2 6 11 812
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 4 8 12 505
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 2 5 15 696 6 13 37 1,307
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 0 1 5 462 4 9 23 1,029
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 3 9 490 8 16 43 1,520
Fischer Black 0 0 0 51 4 5 14 227
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions 0 0 0 84 2 3 3 249
In Honor of Nobel Laureate, Franco Modigliani 0 0 0 73 4 6 8 307
International pension swaps 0 0 2 82 2 4 11 246
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 1 2 8 657 11 21 58 1,720
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 1 4 17 3,200 12 39 104 6,562
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 3 4 9 63
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 9 12 17 970
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 0 3 3 6 11 29
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 2 789 4 6 12 1,820
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 0 5 12 1,384 2 13 38 3,261
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 6
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 1 4 781 3 11 44 2,468
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 3 6 14 796
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 3 7 10 1,037
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 7 16 32 2,567 87 122 195 6,199
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 1 6 556 5 7 18 1,133
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 1 7 26 5,430 7 23 92 9,350
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 0 3 17 1,431 3 20 67 3,437
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 4 8 11 55
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 0 0 6 236
Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future 0 1 1 1 2 5 7 8
Reply to Benston and Kaufman 0 0 0 29 1 1 1 147
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 1 2 2 29 2 5 17 151
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 599
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 1 3 88 7 9 15 582
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 1 1 4 1,219 4 7 20 2,138
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 0 3 64 13 26 52 429
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 0 0 2 125 1 1 3 286
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market 0 0 0 62 6 11 12 325
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 0 1 3 322 0 6 9 866
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 1 476 3 6 10 1,217
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 2 5 6 974
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 3 4 7 195
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 1 5 26 10,152 22 59 151 22,780
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 0 2 2 2 3 9 10
Total Journal Articles 18 79 268 42,251 397 768 1,699 103,688


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 0 1 75 1 3 6 393
Total Books 0 0 1 75 1 3 6 393


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 0 441 2 2 5 2,138
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 1 2 4 22 4 10 18 124
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 0 2 130 8 28 52 500
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 0 111 9 13 20 317
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 1 1 21 3 5 7 114
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 4 4 9 196
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 356 5 6 10 1,170
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 0 196 4 9 16 520
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 3 3 4 169
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 34
Theory of rational option pricing 2 3 7 103 11 23 48 497
Total Chapters 3 6 14 1,488 54 107 197 5,779
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