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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 1 246 1 1 2 673
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 1 1 5 1,463 2 8 28 3,659
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 0 0 3 531
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 4 186 0 1 9 453
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 0 4 6 127
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 0 0 5 895
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 0 1 3 424
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 143
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 1 1 1 1,531 3 5 12 6,494
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 1 3 697
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 1,391 1 4 11 2,946
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 2 11 2,296
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 2 1,253 1 3 18 4,834
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 2 428 0 0 9 1,122
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 219 1 1 14 478
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 0 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 0 4 2,362 0 0 8 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 0 1 6 529
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 1 275 0 0 1 678
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 0 3 367 0 0 9 1,473
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 1 1 1 311 1 1 2 573
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 2 3 12 4,917 4 8 41 9,677
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 1,043 0 2 6 2,658
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 1 3 19 7,362
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 3 16 4,670 3 11 39 7,891
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 1 2 121
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 0 0 3 562
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 3 3 4 553
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 2 2 3 736 3 5 25 2,056
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 1 3 4 1,731
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 1 3 7 134
Total Working Papers 8 11 66 25,255 27 73 322 79,416


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 6 26 91 3,225
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 1 8 0 0 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 1 21 1,211 6 23 108 3,578
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 0 1 2 66
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 0 1 1 365
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 0 0 7 395 0 0 20 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 1 7 217 1 3 16 499
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 0 1 21 4,434 2 10 53 11,814
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 1 5 16 1,355 5 12 37 3,224
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 0 2 12 1,940
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 0 2 11 102
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 1 1 172 0 1 6 477
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 1 2 6 942
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 0 4 6 806
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 1 2 7 497
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 2 6 18 690 3 10 36 1,292
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 0 2 7 460 0 4 21 1,018
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 2 9 487 2 5 48 1,502
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 0 2 9 219
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 0 1 2 301
International pension swaps 0 2 2 82 0 2 7 239
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 2 3 8 655 5 15 43 1,696
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 1 4 20 3,193 2 25 88 6,515
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 0 2 6 57
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 1 2 7 956
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 23
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 2 2 789 0 2 7 1,813
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 1 3 14 1,379 3 8 35 3,245
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 0 8 779 2 11 36 2,449
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 0 1 6 788
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 1 7 20 2,549 9 23 75 6,060
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 0 3 553 2 2 9 1,122
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 6 29 5,421 5 24 79 9,309
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 4 24 1,428 1 9 57 3,405
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 47
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 1 5 6 236
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 0 146
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 0 0 1 27 2 3 17 145
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 594
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 0 2 87 1 2 6 573
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 1 9 1,218 1 4 23 2,130
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 1 4 64 1 7 26 399
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 1 1 2 125 1 1 3 285
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market 0 0 0 62 0 1 2 314
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 0 0 3 321 0 0 3 859
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 3 476 0 1 7 1,210
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 1 1 2 969
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 0 0 2 190
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 2 5 33 10,143 7 26 133 22,710
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 1 1 2 2 2 3 7 7
Total Journal Articles 16 59 304 42,153 76 294 1,210 102,767


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 1 1 75 0 1 1 388
Total Books 0 1 1 75 0 1 1 388


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 0 441 0 2 5 2,136
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 1 2 2 20 1 3 8 113
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 0 3 129 2 9 34 470
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 0 2 7 303
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 0 0 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 1 356 0 0 7 1,162
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 0 2 7 510
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 166
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 28
Theory of rational option pricing 0 1 5 99 2 11 34 472
Total Chapters 1 3 13 1,480 5 31 114 5,658
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