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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 0 246 3 4 4 676
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 1 2 6 1,464 5 9 30 3,666
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 0 0 2 531
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 4 186 2 2 10 455
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 1 4 9 131
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 1 3 6 898
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 1 1 4 425
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 0 1 1 144
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 1 2 2 1,532 7 11 16 6,502
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 2 4 5 492
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 0 1 3 698
Earnings variablility and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 34 0 1 1 146
Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions 0 0 1 1,391 2 3 13 2,948
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 0 0 60 0 0 1 261
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 0 0 1 1,106 1 3 12 2,298
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 1 1,253 2 62 71 4,895
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 1 428 0 0 3 1,122
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 219 1 3 11 480
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 0 1 5 53
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 2 5 5 433
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 0 0 3 2,362 0 2 8 14,680
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 2 6 531
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 0 275 3 5 5 683
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 1 4 368 0 1 8 1,474
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 1 1 311 2 3 3 575
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 4 10 19 4,925 18 31 62 9,704
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 0 1,043 6 6 11 2,664
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 3 6 20 7,367
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 0 1 15 4,670 4 22 49 7,910
Pension Plan Integration as Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 147 1 1 1 853
Report on “The Committee on Yen Risk-free-rate Model Estimation†0 0 0 12 0 1 3 122
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 2 7 8 557
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 1 2 5 564
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 1 3 4 737 4 10 26 2,063
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 0 2 5 1,732
Trust in Lending 0 0 0 63 3 6 11 139
Total Working Papers 7 20 68 25,267 78 225 446 79,614


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 12 30 100 3,249
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 1 8 0 1 3 33
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 0 1 3 98
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 3 3 17 1,214 11 20 96 3,592
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 0 1 3 67
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 0 1 2 366
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 1 1 2 396 4 4 13 1,003
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 1 1 7 218 6 7 19 505
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 1 3 17 4,437 8 21 57 11,833
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 1 3 15 1,357 4 12 37 3,231
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 0 2 13 1,942
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 3 3 12 105
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 1 172 2 5 10 482
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 0 1 5 942
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 2 2 7 808
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 2 3 9 499
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 2 5 15 693 4 9 36 1,298
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 0 1 7 461 0 2 19 1,020
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 2 9 488 2 6 41 1,506
Fischer Black 0 0 0 51 0 3 9 222
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions 0 0 0 84 1 1 2 247
In Honor of Nobel Laureate, Franco Modigliani 0 0 0 73 0 0 2 301
International pension swaps 0 0 2 82 1 4 10 243
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 0 2 6 655 4 12 46 1,703
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 1 5 19 3,197 10 20 98 6,533
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 1 3 9 60
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 2 5 9 960
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 0 3 1 1 7 24
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 2 789 0 1 7 1,814
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 2 3 12 1,381 5 11 34 3,253
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 1 2 8 781 2 12 42 2,459
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 1 3 9 791
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 1,032
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 5 8 24 2,556 16 42 100 6,093
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 1 3 6 556 1 7 13 1,127
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 6 24 5,425 9 32 88 9,336
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 3 20 1,430 9 22 66 3,426
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 48
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 0 1 6 236
Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 4
Reply to Benston and Kaufman 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 146
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 1 1 2 28 1 4 17 147
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 597
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 1 1 3 88 1 2 7 574
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 0 9 1,218 2 4 25 2,133
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 0 4 64 5 10 32 408
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 0 1 2 125 0 1 3 285
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market 0 0 0 62 1 1 2 315
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 1 1 4 322 1 2 5 861
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 3 476 1 2 9 1,212
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 1 2 3 970
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 1 2 4 192
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 1 7 26 10,148 16 34 124 22,737
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 1 2 2 1 3 7 8
Total Journal Articles 29 64 276 42,201 160 389 1,302 103,080


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 0 1 75 0 2 3 390
Total Books 0 0 1 75 0 2 3 390


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 2,136
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 1 2 3 21 4 6 12 118
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 1 3 130 4 8 32 476
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 3 4 11 307
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 0 1 2 109
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 2 7 192
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 356 1 3 7 1,165
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 4 5 12 515
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 166
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 3 5 7 33
Theory of rational option pricing 1 2 5 101 2 6 31 476
Total Chapters 2 5 13 1,484 21 40 125 5,693
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