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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 2 246 0 0 2 672
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 0 1 4 1,462 4 7 25 3,655
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 0 1 3 531
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 1 5 186 1 2 11 453
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 1 1 3 124
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 0 1 5 895
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 0 0 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 1 1 12 6,490
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 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 1 2 1,391 1 6 9 2,943
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 0 0 60 0 0 2 261
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 0 0 1 1,106 1 5 13 2,295
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 1 3 1,253 1 2 18 4,832
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 219 0 1 14 477
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 428 0 0 11 1,122
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 1 1 4 52
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 0 1 4 2,362 0 2 9 14,678
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable 0 0 2 126 1 2 6 529
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 2 3 367 0 3 11 1,473
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 0 3 14 4,914 1 9 43 9,670
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 1,043 2 2 6 2,658
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 1 3 22 7,360
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 4 15 4,668 4 8 35 7,884
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 1 2 2 121
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 0 0 1 550
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 0 0 4 562
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 1 1 734 1 9 26 2,052
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 1 1 3 1,729
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 1 2 6 132
Total Working Papers 1 15 67 25,245 24 71 322 79,367


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 11 24 101 3,210
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 1 1 8 0 1 2 32
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 97
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 0 0 21 1,210 8 22 116 3,563
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 0 0 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 0 14 395 0 0 36 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 1 2 9 217 1 5 16 497
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 1 4 22 4,434 4 13 55 11,808
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 2 5 18 1,352 4 9 36 3,216
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 2 5 12 1,940
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 1 3 12 101
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 0 171 0 1 5 476
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 2 404 0 0 5 940
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 2 3 4 804
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 0 0 5 495
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 3 4 17 687 5 11 37 1,287
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 1 2 8 459 2 3 22 1,016
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 4 10 486 1 15 58 1,498
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 1 3 8 218
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 2 301
International pension swaps 2 2 2 82 2 2 7 239
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 0 2 6 652 6 17 40 1,687
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 1 4 23 3,190 13 26 86 6,503
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 1 2 6 56
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 1 2 6 955
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 0 3 0 2 6 23
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 1 1 1 788 1 4 6 1,812
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 1 4 14 1,377 4 10 36 3,241
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 0 8 779 3 8 28 2,441
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 1 2 317 0 3 5 787
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1,029
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 3 5 20 2,545 5 23 69 6,042
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 1 3 553 0 3 7 1,120
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 8 31 5,417 14 25 85 9,299
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 6 28 1,426 7 17 70 3,403
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 0 3 3 47
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 2 3 4 233
Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2 27 1 5 18 143
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 593
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 0 2 87 1 3 5 572
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 1 1 11 1,218 2 4 27 2,128
The Derivatives Sourcebook 1 2 4 64 4 11 25 396
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 0 0 1 124 0 0 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 0 4 321 0 0 4 859
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 3 476 0 1 6 1,209
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 2 316 0 0 9 968
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 0 0 5 190
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 0 5 42 10,138 11 37 158 22,695
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 4
Total Journal Articles 23 64 337 42,117 122 331 1,277 102,595


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


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 0 441 0 0 3 2,134
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 1 1 1 19 2 3 9 112
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 1 4 129 2 10 29 463
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 1 2 7 302
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 0 1 1 108
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 0 6 190
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 2 356 0 0 9 1,162
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 1 3 7 509
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 165
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 28
Theory of rational option pricing 1 2 7 99 3 5 30 464
Total Chapters 2 4 16 1,479 10 26 106 5,637
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