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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 0 1 1 673
A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information 0 1 5 1,463 2 6 28 3,661
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 0 0 9 453
Autobiography 0 0 0 20 3 6 9 130
Capital market theory and the pricing of financial securities 0 0 1 396 2 2 7 897
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 1 1 1 144
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Tradeoffs? 0 1 1 1,531 1 5 9 6,495
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 2 3 490
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan? 0 0 0 214 1 2 4 698
Earnings variablility and variance bounds tests for the rationality of stock market prices 0 0 0 34 1 1 1 146
Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions 0 0 1 1,391 0 3 11 2,946
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 2 11 2,297
Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market 0 0 2 1,253 59 61 74 4,893
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 3 219 1 2 13 479
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability 0 0 1 428 0 0 5 1,122
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions 0 0 0 19 1 1 5 53
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 102 3 3 3 431
On Estimating the Expected Return on the Market: An Exploratory Investigation 0 0 4 2,362 2 2 9 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 1 6 530
On the cost of deposit insurance when there are surveillance costs 0 0 1 275 2 2 3 680
On the current state of the stock market rationality hypothesis 1 1 4 368 1 1 9 1,474
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 1 1 311 0 1 2 573
On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates 4 7 15 4,921 9 16 46 9,686
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 1,043 0 0 6 2,658
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model 0 0 0 0 2 4 19 7,364
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 0 2 16 4,670 15 22 49 7,906
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 1 1 3 122
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 125 2 5 6 555
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 0 0 0 162 1 1 4 563
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure 0 2 3 736 3 7 25 2,059
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility 0 0 0 501 1 3 5 1,732
Trust in Lending 0 0 0 63 2 4 8 136
Total Working Papers 5 15 66 25,260 120 169 404 79,536


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation 0 0 0 0 12 27 97 3,237
A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque Financial Intermediaries 0 0 1 8 1 1 3 33
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes 0 0 0 11 1 1 3 98
A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information 0 1 16 1,211 3 18 96 3,581
ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management 0 0 0 16 1 2 3 67
Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans 0 0 0 176 1 2 2 366
An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier 0 0 3 395 0 0 16 999
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty 0 0 7 217 0 2 15 499
An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model 2 2 20 4,436 11 17 56 11,825
An analytic derivation of the cost of deposit insurance and loan guarantees An application of modern option pricing theory 1 4 17 1,356 3 11 38 3,227
Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later 0 0 2 956 2 2 14 1,942
Customers and investors: A framework for understanding the evolution of financial institutions 0 0 0 19 0 1 10 102
Deposit insurance reform: a functional approach 0 1 1 172 3 4 8 480
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market 0 0 1 404 0 2 5 942
Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices 0 0 0 310 0 2 6 806
Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan? 0 0 0 154 0 2 7 497
FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1 4 17 691 2 7 36 1,294
Fallacy of the log-normal approximation to optimal portfolio decision-making over many periods 1 2 8 461 2 4 21 1,020
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions 0 1 8 487 2 6 42 1,504
Fischer Black 0 0 0 51 3 4 11 222
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 0 2 301
International pension swaps 0 0 2 82 3 3 9 242
Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice in a life cycle model 0 3 7 655 3 12 44 1,699
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case 3 6 19 3,196 8 20 89 6,523
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING FOR BANKS AND THRIFTS - LESSONS FROM THE DANISH EXPERIENCE 0 0 0 7 2 3 8 59
Macroeconomics and finance: The role of the stock market 0 0 0 310 2 3 7 958
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 1 2 789 1 2 8 1,814
On Market Timing and Investment Performance. II. Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills 0 2 12 1,379 3 7 34 3,248
On a New Approach for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks (corrected) 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
On estimating the expected return on the market: An exploratory investigation 1 1 8 780 8 16 41 2,457
On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs 0 0 2 317 2 3 8 790
On the Management of Financial Guarantees 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1,030
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates 2 6 21 2,551 17 35 86 6,077
On the pricing of contingent claims and the Modigliani-Miller theorem 2 2 5 555 4 6 12 1,126
Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model 2 6 27 5,423 18 28 87 9,327
Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous 0 2 22 1,428 12 14 62 3,417
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 0 3 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 1 3 17 146
Speeches by Nobel Laureates 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 595
Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect 0 0 2 87 0 1 6 573
THEORY OF RISK CAPITAL IN FINANCIAL FIRMS 0 0 9 1,218 1 3 24 2,131
The Derivatives Sourcebook 0 0 4 64 4 7 28 403
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 0 1 1 314
The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment 0 0 3 321 1 1 4 860
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 3 476 1 2 8 1,211
The Returns and Risks of Alternative Put-Option Portfolio Investment Strategies 0 0 0 316 0 1 2 969
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time 0 0 1 75 1 1 3 191
Theory of Rational Option Pricing 4 9 28 10,147 11 26 123 22,721
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management 0 1 2 2 0 3 7 7
Total Journal Articles 19 55 283 42,172 153 325 1,243 102,920


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asset Management in Volatile Markets 0 1 1 75 2 3 3 390
Total Books 0 1 1 75 2 3 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 2 4 2,136
DESIGN OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE 0 1 2 20 1 2 8 114
Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension Plans: What are the Real Trade-offs? 1 1 3 130 2 9 35 472
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework 0 0 1 111 1 2 8 304
On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans 0 0 0 20 1 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 2 2 7 192
On the microeconomic theory of investment under uncertainty 0 0 0 356 2 2 7 1,164
Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds 0 0 1 196 1 2 8 511
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 2 2 4 30
Theory of rational option pricing 1 1 4 100 2 10 32 474
Total Chapters 2 3 11 1,482 14 35 117 5,672
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