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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 4 246 0 0 4 672
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 1 1 6 1,459 4 6 23 3,642
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 1 277 1 1 5 530
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 1 2 183 1 3 11 448
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 0 1 2 123
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 395 1 1 6 893
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 1 1 1 422
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 0 0 3 143
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 0 0 1 1,530 1 3 19 6,489
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 740
Dividend variability and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 1 1 203 0 1 1 488
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 1 1 4 696
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 2 1,390 0 2 5 2,937
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 0 1 60 0 1 4 261
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 0 1 3 1,106 1 3 12 2,289
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 3 1,252 2 4 26 4,828
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 1 2 4 218 3 5 20 474
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 1 5 428 0 3 19 1,122
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 1 19 0 3 5 51
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 0 0 1 428
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 1 1 10 2,360 2 3 22 14,675
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable 0 0 1 125 0 0 2 525
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 1 275 0 0 3 678
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 0 0 364 1 2 7 1,468
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 1 310 0 0 4 572
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 3 4 20 4,910 8 14 77 9,656
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 2 1,043 0 2 6 2,655
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 5 8 32 7,355
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 6 14 4,661 3 9 40 7,870
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 0 162 1 2 5 561
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 1 125 1 1 2 550
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 0 0 733 0 2 21 2,039
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 0 0 1 1,727
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 0 1 4 129
Total Working Papers 8 18 86 25,217 37 84 399 79,252


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 7 21 89 3,170
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 31
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 96
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 6 12 41 1,209 17 37 164 3,533
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 1 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 1 1 22 395 4 9 63 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 1 8 212 0 3 15 489
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 6 9 26 4,429 7 18 74 11,794
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 2 3 18 1,345 4 8 44 3,202
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 2 3 956 2 5 8 1,934
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 2 19 1 4 12 97
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 0 171 0 0 3 472
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 2 403 0 0 8 937
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 1 310 0 0 3 801
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 1 154 1 4 6 494
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1 4 16 682 3 11 38 1,273
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 0 3 12 457 3 8 25 1,009
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 3 13 482 4 16 70 1,481
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 2 2 9 215
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions 0 0 0 84 0 1 1 246
In Honor of Nobel Laureate, Franco Modigliani 0 0 0 73 0 0 0 299
International pension swaps 0 0 1 80 1 3 5 236
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 0 0 6 649 2 7 30 1,664
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 2 7 29 3,185 10 33 88 6,468
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 1 7 0 3 5 54
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 0 2 14 953
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 1 3 1 2 4 19
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 4 787 0 1 9 1,808
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 0 3 16 1,372 3 7 36 3,226
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 4 10 777 2 9 24 2,426
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 315 0 0 3 782
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 1,028
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 1 4 34 2,536 6 17 107 6,010
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 1 1 4 551 1 2 6 1,116
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 3 6 42 5,407 5 15 106 9,263
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 6 32 1,416 4 14 89 3,374
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 1 7 0 0 5 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 1 2 2
Reply to Benston and Kaufman 0 0 0 29 0 0 1 146
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 0 1 4 27 1 5 13 135
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 592
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 1 1 2 86 1 1 6 568
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 6 16 1,215 0 10 31 2,118
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 1 2 61 3 4 18 380
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 1 1 1 124 1 2 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 1 11 319 0 1 20 857
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 2 5 475 0 4 11 1,207
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 2 316 0 1 12 968
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 74 0 0 4 188
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 2 6 61 10,128 14 30 201 22,643
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Total Journal Articles 31 89 456 42,014 118 329 1,504 102,107


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 1 441 0 0 5 2,133
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 0 0 1 18 1 1 11 107
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 1 6 128 2 6 36 450
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 1 2 111 1 2 7 298
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 1 3 11 188
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 3 356 1 3 10 1,161
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 1 2 196 1 2 9 505
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 14 26
Theory of rational option pricing 1 1 13 97 4 8 37 453
Total Chapters 1 4 28 1,475 11 25 143 5,593
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