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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy 0 0 0 246 2 5 6 678
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 0 1 6 1,464 9 16 38 3,675
An asymptotic theory of growth under uncertainty 0 0 0 277 2 2 4 533
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 3 186 1 3 9 456
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 0 4 9 131
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 3 6 9 901
Continuous-time portfolio theory and the pricing of contingent claims 0 0 0 244 0 1 4 425
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions 0 0 0 46 1 2 2 145
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 0 1 2 1,532 1 9 16 6,503
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 742
Dividend variability and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 203 2 6 6 494
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 2 3 5 700
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 1 1 2 1,392 3 5 14 2,951
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert C. Merton 1 1 1 61 2 2 3 263
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model 1 1 1 1,107 9 11 20 2,307
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 1 1,253 32 93 102 4,927
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 2 219 0 2 10 480
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 0 428 3 3 3 1,125
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 54
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 2 7 7 435
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 2 2 5 2,364 7 9 14 14,687
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 3 5 9 534
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 0 275 0 5 5 683
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 0 1 4 368 2 3 10 1,476
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 1 311 3 5 6 578
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 0 8 18 4,925 12 39 69 9,716
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 0 1,043 3 9 13 2,667
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 3 8 23 7,370
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 1 14 4,671 30 49 77 7,940
Pension Plan Integration as Insurance Against Social Security Risk 0 0 0 147 2 3 3 855
Report on “The Committee on Yen Risk-free-rate Model Estimation†0 0 0 12 2 3 5 124
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 0 4 8 557
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 2 4 7 566
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 1 4 737 3 10 28 2,066
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 2 3 7 1,734
Trust in Lending 0 0 0 63 4 9 15 143
Total Working Papers 6 18 66 25,273 153 351 572 79,767


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 10 34 100 3,259
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 1 8 2 3 5 35
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 6 18 1,217 16 30 98 3,608
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 3 4 6 70
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 2 3 4 368
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 1 2 3 397 4 8 15 1,007
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 1 6 218 3 9 20 508
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 2 5 16 4,439 5 24 53 11,838
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 4 6 18 1,361 8 15 43 3,239
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 1 1 1 957 2 4 12 1,944
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 2 5 12 107
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 0 1 172 0 5 10 482
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 2 2 7 944
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 2 4 9 810
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 2 4 10 501
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1 4 13 694 3 9 33 1,301
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 1 2 7 462 5 7 21 1,025
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 1 2 10 489 6 10 43 1,512
Fischer Black 0 0 0 51 1 4 10 223
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions 0 0 0 84 0 1 1 247
In Honor of Nobel Laureate, Franco Modigliani 0 0 0 73 2 2 4 303
International pension swaps 0 0 2 82 1 5 10 244
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 1 1 7 656 6 13 49 1,709
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 2 6 18 3,199 17 35 100 6,550
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 0 3 8 60
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 1 5 9 961
No-fault default, chapter 11 bankruptcy, and financial institutions 0 0 0 3 2 3 9 26
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. I. An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts 0 0 2 789 2 3 8 1,816
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 3 5 13 1,384 6 14 38 3,259
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 0 2 5 781 6 16 42 2,465
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 2 5 11 793
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 1,034
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 4 11 27 2,560 19 52 112 6,112
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 0 3 6 556 1 6 13 1,128
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 4 8 28 5,429 7 34 92 9,343
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 1 3 19 1,431 8 29 70 3,434
Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics 0 0 0 7 3 4 7 51
Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics 0 0 0 53 0 0 6 236
Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future 0 1 1 1 2 3 5 6
Reply to Benston and Kaufman 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 146
SeLFIES: A NEW PENSION BOND AND CURRENCY FOR RETIREMENT 0 1 2 28 2 4 18 149
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 597
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 1 3 88 1 2 8 575
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 0 8 1,218 1 4 23 2,134
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 0 3 64 8 17 39 416
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns 0 0 2 125 0 0 2 285
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market 0 0 0 62 4 5 6 319
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 0 1 4 322 5 7 10 866
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 3 476 2 4 9 1,214
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 2 3 4 972
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 0 2 4 192
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 3 8 28 10,151 21 48 137 22,758
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 0 2 2 0 1 7 8
Total Journal Articles 32 80 281 42,233 211 524 1,392 103,291


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 0 1 75 2 4 5 392
Total Books 0 0 1 75 2 4 5 392


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 0 1 3 21 2 7 14 120
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 0 1 3 130 16 22 46 492
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 0 111 1 5 11 308
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 1 1 1 21 2 3 4 111
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 6 192
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 356 0 3 7 1,165
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 1 6 13 516
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 0 5 7 33
Theory of rational option pricing 0 2 5 101 10 14 38 486
Total Chapters 1 5 13 1,485 32 67 150 5,725
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