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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 2 246 0 0 2 672
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 1 3 4 1,462 3 9 22 3,651
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 1 1 5 531
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 2 4 185 0 3 10 451
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 123
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 1 1 396 1 2 5 895
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 0 1 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 0 0 17 6,489
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 0 2 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 0 1 1,390 3 3 7 2,940
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 0 0 1 60 0 0 4 261
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 0 0 2 1,106 0 1 11 2,290
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 1 1 4 1,253 1 3 20 4,831
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 1 4 219 1 3 16 477
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 5 428 0 0 16 1,122
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 1 19 0 0 5 51
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 6 2,361 1 2 12 14,677
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable 0 1 2 126 0 2 4 527
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 1 1 365 0 2 8 1,470
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 2 3 18 4,913 6 11 56 9,667
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 2 1,043 0 1 6 2,656
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 2 4 26 7,359
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 3 6 17 4,667 4 10 38 7,880
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 1 125 0 0 2 550
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 0 1 5 562
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 0 0 733 5 9 25 2,048
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 0 1 2 1,728
Trust in Lending 0 0 1 63 1 2 5 131
Total Working Papers 7 20 79 25,237 29 73 347 79,325


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 10 26 100 3,196
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 31
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 97
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 0 1 26 1,210 9 17 121 3,550
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 16 395 0 0 47 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 1 4 8 216 4 7 17 496
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 3 4 25 4,433 8 9 60 11,803
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 3 5 18 1,350 5 10 40 3,212
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 1 2 9 1,936
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 1 2 10 99
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 0 171 0 3 4 475
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 1 3 404 0 3 8 940
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 1 1 3 802
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 0 1 5 495
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 0 1 14 683 4 7 33 1,280
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 1 1 8 458 1 5 23 1,014
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 0 0 8 482 9 11 62 1,492
Fischer Black 0 0 1 51 2 2 10 217
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 1 300
International pension swaps 0 0 0 80 0 1 5 237
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 1 2 8 651 5 11 36 1,675
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 3 4 27 3,189 7 16 83 6,484
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 1 1 5 55
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 1 1 5 954
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 1 3 2 4 8 23
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 2 787 2 2 8 1,810
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 2 3 13 1,375 2 7 30 3,233
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 2 9 779 2 9 24 2,435
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 1 2 4 317 3 5 7 787
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1,029
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 1 5 23 2,541 4 13 73 6,023
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 1 2 552 1 2 5 1,118
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 4 6 33 5,413 8 19 90 9,282
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 2 6 30 1,422 5 17 72 3,391
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 2 2 5 46
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 0 1 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 3 27 3 6 18 141
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 592
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 1 2 87 0 1 2 569
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 2 12 1,217 2 8 28 2,126
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 1 2 62 2 7 18 387
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 2 6 321 0 2 6 859
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 1 4 476 1 2 8 1,209
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 2 316 0 0 10 968
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 1 2 75 0 2 6 190
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 2 7 55 10,135 14 29 180 22,672
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 4
Total Journal Articles 24 63 372 42,077 122 279 1,313 102,386


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 1 3 2,134
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 0 0 1 18 0 2 8 109
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 0 5 128 2 5 29 455
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 1 3 6 301
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 1 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 2 10 190
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 2 356 0 1 10 1,162
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 1 2 6 507
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 0 0 12 26
Theory of rational option pricing 1 1 11 98 2 8 34 461
Total Chapters 1 1 21 1,476 7 25 121 5,618
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