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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 0 0 1 672
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 0 0 4 1,462 2 6 26 3,657
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 1 5 186 0 2 11 453
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 3 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 1 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? 0 0 0 1,530 1 2 10 6,491
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 1 1 4 697
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 1 1 1,391 2 5 10 2,945
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 0 5 12 2,295
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 2 1,253 1 2 17 4,833
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 219 0 0 13 477
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 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 1 4 2,362 0 1 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 0 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 10 1,473
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 310 0 0 1 572
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 1 2 12 4,915 3 6 40 9,673
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 2 22 7,361
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 2 16 4,669 4 8 39 7,888
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 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 5 23 2,053
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 1 2 4 1,730
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 1 2 6 133
Total Working Papers 2 10 63 25,247 22 64 319 79,389


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 9 23 99 3,219
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 1 1 22 1,211 9 22 112 3,572
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 1 1 2 66
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 1 1 1 365
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 0 0 13 395 0 0 30 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 1 9 217 1 2 17 498
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 0 1 22 4,434 4 9 55 11,812
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 2 4 18 1,354 3 7 35 3,219
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 0 4 12 1,940
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 1 3 12 102
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 1 1 1 172 1 2 6 477
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 1 1 5 941
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 2 4 6 806
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 1 1 6 496
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1 5 17 688 2 9 35 1,289
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 1 2 8 460 2 4 22 1,018
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 0 4 9 486 2 8 52 1,500
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 1 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 1 2 6 653 4 16 41 1,691
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 2 3 23 3,192 10 29 91 6,513
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 1 2 7 57
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 0 1 6 955
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 1 2 2 789 1 3 7 1,813
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 1 3 14 1,378 1 9 36 3,242
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 0 8 779 6 12 34 2,447
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 1 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 3 7 20 2,548 9 28 72 6,051
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 1 3 553 0 2 7 1,120
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 6 30 5,419 5 22 83 9,304
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 5 28 1,427 1 13 67 3,404
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 0 1 3 47
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 2 5 6 235
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 0 2 16 143
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 593
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 0 2 87 0 3 5 572
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 1 10 1,218 1 3 26 2,129
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 2 4 64 2 11 26 398
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 1 1 3 314
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 1 1 7 1,210
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 0 0 2 968
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 0 0 4 190
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 3 6 42 10,141 8 31 156 22,703
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 5
Total Journal Articles 20 60 331 42,137 96 305 1,267 102,691


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 1 1 1 75 1 1 1 388
Total Books 1 1 1 75 1 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 2 2 5 2,136
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 0 1 1 19 0 3 7 112
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 1 4 129 5 13 34 468
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 1 2 8 303
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 8 1,162
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 1 3 8 510
Pension Plan Integration As Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 28 1 1 2 166
SeLFIES for Portugal: An Innovative Pan European Retirement Solution 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 28
Theory of rational option pricing 0 1 6 99 6 9 35 470
Total Chapters 0 3 14 1,479 16 35 117 5,653
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