Here are all the working papers from the research focus 'Wealth and Risk' from year 2006 up to now.
Working papers of the members of the research focus (FSP) can be downloaded under Alexandria.
2012 - from number 171 on
No. 172, March 2012
An Alternative Three-factor Model for International Markets: Evidence from the European Monetary Union
Manuel Ammann, Sandro Odoni, David Oesch
No. 171, January 2012
International Financial Transmission of the US Monetary Policy
Nikola Mirkov
2011 - No. 139 to 170
No. 170, December 2011
Bank Funding, Securitization and Loan Terms: Evidence from Foreign Currency Lending
Martin Brown, Karolin Kirschenmann, Steven Ongena
No. 169, September 2011
The US Term Premia around the FOMC decisions
Nikola Mirkov
No. 168, August 2011
Corporate Taxes, Internal Borrowing, and the Lending Capacity within Multinational Firms
Peter Egger, Christian Keuschnigg, Valeria Merlo, Georg Wamser
No. 167, July 2011
The Design of Capital Income Taxation: Reflections on the Mirrlees Review
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 166, July 2011
Use of Banking Services in Emerging Markets - Household-Level Evidence
Thorsten Beck, Martin Brown
No. 165, June 2011
Debt Enforcement and Relational Contracting
Martin Brown, Marta Serra-Garcia
No. 164, April 2011
Foreign Banks and Foreign Currency Lending in Emerging Europe
Martin Brown, Ralph De Haas
No. 163
Stock vs. Mutual Insurers: Who Does and Who Should Charge More?
Alexander Braun, Przemyslaw Rymaszewski, Hato Schmeiser
No. 162
Is There Really No conglomerate Discount?
Manuel Ammann, Daniel Hoechle, Markus Schmid
No. 161
Product Market Competition, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value: Evidence from the EU-Area
Manuel Ammann, David Oesch, Markus Schmid
No. 160
Can a Transaction Tax or Capital Gains Tax smooth House Prices?
Nicole Aregger, Martin Brown, Enzo Rossi
No. 159
Model Uncertainty and its Impact on Solvency Measurement in Property-Liability Insurance
Hato Schmeiser, Caroline Siegel, Joël Wagner
No. 158
A Proposal for a Capital Market-Based Guaranty Scheme for the Financial Industry
Hato Schmeiser, Joël Wagner, Alexandra Zemp
No. 157
Insurance Guaranty Funds and Their Relation to Solvency Regulation
Przemyslaw Rymaszewski, Hato Schmeiser
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No. 156
Risk Comparison of Different Bonus Distribution Approaches in Participating Life Insurance
Alexandra Zemp
No. 155
How Do Price Presentation Effects Influence Consumer Choice? The Case of Investment Guarantees in Unit-Linked Life Insurance Products
Nadine Gatzert, Carin Huber, Hato Schmeiser
No. 154
A Note on the Merits of Pooling Claims
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 153
The Impact of Introducing Insurance Guaranty Schemes on Pricing and Capital Structures
Hato Schmeiser, Joël Wagner
No. 152
Disposition Effect and Mutual Fund Performance
Manuel Ammann, Alexander Ising, Stephan Kessler
No. 151
What Drives the Performance of Convertible-Bond Funds
Manuel Ammann, Axel Kind, Ralf Seiz
No. 150
Hedge Fund Characteristics and Performance Persistence
Manuel Ammann, Otto Huber, Markus Schmid
No. 149
Corporate Governance and Firm Value: International Evidence
Manuel Ammann, David Oesch, Markus Schmid
No. 148
Feasible Momentum Strategies in the US Stock Market
Manuel Ammann, Marcel Moellenbeck, Markus Schmid
2010 - No. 133 to 147
No. 147
A Life Cycle Model with Pension Benefits and Taxes
Heinz Müller, Daniel Moos
No. 146
Corporate Finance and Economic Performance
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 145
Bond risk premia forecasting: A simple approach for extracting macroeconomic information from a panel of indicators
Francesco Audrino
No. 144
A Theory of Taxation and Incorporation
Peter Egger, Christian Keuschnigg, Hannes Winner
No. 143
Regulating Insurance Groups: A Comparison of Risk-Based Solvency Models
Hato Schmeiser, Caroline Siegel
No. 142
Pricing Catastrophe Swaps: A Contingent Claims Approach
Alexander Braun
No. 141
A Joint Valuation of Premium Payment and Surrender Options in Particpating Life Insurance Contracts
Hato Schmeiser, Joël Wagner
No. 140
A Benchmark Analysis of Participating Life Insurance Contracts
Roger Faust, Hato Schmeiser, Alexandra Zemp
No. 139
Under Which Conditions is an Insurance Guaranty Fund Beneficial for Policyholders?
Przemyslaw Rymaszewski, Hato Schmeiser, Joël Wagner
No. 138
Flexicurity and Job Reallocation
Thomas Davoine, Christian Keuschnigg
No. 137
Transition Strategies in Fundamental Tax Reform
Christian Keuschnigg, Mirela Keuschnigg
No. 136
Innovation, Trade and Finance
Christian Keuschnigg, Peter Egger
No. 135
A Traffic Light Approach to Solvency Measurement of Swiss Occupational Pension Funds
Alexander Braun, Przemyslaw Rymaszewski, Hato Schmeiser
No. 134
Business Taxation, Corporate Finance and Economic Performance
Christian Keuschnigg, Evelyn Ribi
No. 133
Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms
Christian Keuschnigg, Evelyn Ribi
2009 - No. 109 to 132
No. 132
Performance and Risks of Open-End Life Settlement Funds
Alexander Braun, Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 131
Efficiency in the International Insurance Industry: A Cross-Country Comparison
Martin Eling, Michael Luhnen
No. 130
Yield Curve Predictability, Regimes, and Macroeconomic Information: A Data Driven Approach
Francesco Audrino, Kameliya Filipova
No. 129
Risk Measurement in Electricity Markets
Karl Frauendorfer
No. 128
Reaction of Swiss Term Premia to Monetary Policy Surprises
Paul Söderlind
No. 127
What Drives the Demand for Industry Loss Warranties?
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 126
Insurance and the Credit Crisis: Impact and Ten Consequences for Risk Management and Supervision
Martin Eling, Hato Schmeiser
No. 125
On the Valuation of Investment Guarantees in Unit-Linked Life Insurance: A Behavioral Perspective
Nadine Gatzert, Carin Huber, Hato Schmeiser
No. 124
The Influence of Corporate Risk, Debt, and Diversifcation on Shareholder Value
Roger Faust
No. 123
The Performance of Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds in Emerging Markets
Martin Eling, Roger Faust
No. 122
The Secondary Market for Life Insurance in the U.K., Germany, and the U.S.: Comparison and Overview
Nadine Gatzert
No. 121
Optimal Risk Classification and Underwriting Risk for Substandard Annuities
Nadine Gatzert, Gudrun Hoermann, Hato Schmeiser
No. 120
Creating Customer Value in Participating Life Insurance Contracts
Nadine Gatzert, Ines Holzmueller, Hato Schmeiser
No. 119
Has Hedge Fund Alpha Disappeared?
Manuel Ammann, Otto Huber, Markus Schmid
No. 118
Asymmetric Dependence Patterns in Financial Time Series
Manuel Ammann, Stephan Süss
No. 117
The Performance of Actively and Passively Managed Swiss Equity Funds
Manuel Ammann, Michael Steiner
No 116
Intra-Day Characteristics of Stock Price Crashes
Manuel Ammann, Stephan Kessler
No. 115
Optimal Design of the Attribution of Pension Fund Performance to Employees
Heinz Müller, David Schiess
No. 114
Aging and the Financing of Social Security in Switzerland
Christian Keuschnigg, Mirella Keuschnigg, Christian Jaag
No. 113
The Role of Corporate Taxation in a Large Welfare State
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 112
The Distorting Arm’s Length Principle
Christian Keuschnigg, Michael P. Devereux
No. 111
Demographic Change and Pharmaceuticals' Stock Returns
Manuel Ammann, Rachel Berchtold, Ralf Seiz
No. 110
Do Implied Volatilities Predict Stock Returns?
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen, Stephan Süss
No. 109
The Time-Varying Systematic Risk of Carry Trade Strategies
Paul Söderllind, Charlotte Christiansen, Angelo Ranaldo
2008 - No. 64 to 108
No. 108
Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds
Manuel Ammann, Patrick Moerth
No. 107
Impact of Fund Size and Fund Flows on Hedge Fund Performance
Manuel Ammann, Patrick Moerth
No. 106
Profit Taxation and Finance Constraints
Christian Keuschnigg, Evelyn Ribi
No. 105
Corporate Taxation, Debt Financing and Foreign Plant Ownership
Peter Egger, Wolfgang Eggert, Christian Keuschnigg, Hannes Winner
No. 104
Corporate Finance and Comparative Advantage
Peter Egger, Christian Keuschnigg
No. 103
Implied and Realized Volatility in the Cross-Section of Equity Options
Manuel Ammann, David Skovmand, Michael Verhofen
No. 102
Performance and Governance of Swiss Pension Funds
Manuel Ammann, Andreas Zingg
No. 101
Determinants of Efficiency and Productivity in German Property-Liability Insurance: Evicence for 1995-2006
Michael Luhnen
No. 100
Underwriting Cycles in German Property-Liability Insurance
Martin Eling, Michael Luhnen
No. 99
Investment Policies for Defined-Contribution Pension Funds
Heinz H. Müller, Roger T. Baumann
No. 98
Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Christian Keuschnigg, Evelyn Ribi
No. 97
Understanding the Death Benefit Switch Option in Universal Life Policies
Nadine Gatzert, Gudrun Hoermann
No. 96
Is there Market Discipline in the European Insurance Industry? An Analysis of the German Insurance Market
Martin Eling, Joan T. Schmit
No. 95
The United States RBC Standards, Solvency II, and the Swiss Solvency Test: A Comparative Assessment
Ines Holzmüller
No. 94
Understanding Price Competition in German Motor Insurance
Martin Eling, Michael Luhnen
No. 93
Incorporation and Taxation: Theory and Firm-level Evidence
Peter Egger, Christian Keuschnigg, Hannes Winner
No. 92
Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Corporate Taxation
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 91
Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 90
Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment
Christian Jaag, Christian Keuschnigg, Mirela Keuschnigg
No. 89
Pension Reform and Labor Market Incentives
Walter H. Fisher, Christian Keuschnigg
No. 88
Inflation Risk Premia and Survey Evidence on Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Paul Söderlind
No. 87
An Overview and Comparison of Risk-Based Capital Standards
Martin Eling, Ines Holzmüller
No. 86
Frontier Efficiency Methodologies to Measure Performance in the Insurance Industry: Overview and new Empirical Evidence
Martin Eling, Michael Luhnen
No. 85
Why Disagreement May Not Matter (much) for Asset Prices
Paul Söderlind
No. 84
Clean Valuation with regard to EU Emission Trading
Karl Frauendorfer, Jens Güssow
No. 83
Modeling Tick-by-Tick Realized Correlations
Francesco Audrino, Fulvio Corsi
No. 82
Realized Covariance Tick-by-Tick in Presence of Rounded Time Stamps and General Microstructure Effects
Fulvio Corsi, Francesco Audrino
No. 81
Forecasting Implied Volatility Surfaces
Francesco Audrino, Dominik Colangelo
No. 80
Splines for Financial Volatility
Francesco Audrino, Peter Bühlmann
No. 79
A Discussion of the Risk Assessment Methods for the German Automobile Insurance Industry
Thomas Parnitzke
No. 78
The Impact of the Secondary Market on Life Insurers' Surrender Profits
Nadine Gatzert, Gudrun Hoermann, Hato Schmeiser
No. 77
The Swiss Solvency Test and its Market Implications
Martin Eling, Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 76
Customer Value from a Customer Perspective: A Comprehensive Review
Albert Graf, Peter Maas
No. 75
Enhanced Annuities and the Impact of Individual Underwriting on an Insurer’s Profit Situation
Gudrun Hoermann, Jochen Russ
No. 74
On the Risk Situation of financial Conglomerates: Does Diversification matter?
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 73
Performance Measurement in the Investment Industry: Does the Measure Matter?
Martin Eling
No. 72
Customer Value Analysis in Financial Services
Peter Maas, Albert Graf
No. 71
Public Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 70
Optimal Strategies during Retirement
David Schiess
No. 69
Investment Performance of Swiss Pension Funds and Investment Foundations
Manuel Ammann, Andreas Zingg
No. 68
Enterprise Risk Management in Financial Groups: Analysis of Risk Concentration and Default Risk
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser, Stefan Schuckmann
No. 67
Risk Factors for the Swiss Stock Market
Manuel Ammann, Michael Steiner
No. 66
Rating Model Arbitrage in CDO Markets: An Empirical Analysis
Stefan Morkötter, Simone Westerfeld
No. 65
Minimum Standards for Investment Performance: A New Perspective on Non-Life Insurer Solvency
Martin Eling, Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 64
The impact of prior performance on the risk-taking of mutual fund managers
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen
2007 - No. 35 to 63
No. 63
Robust Value at Risk Prediction
Loriano Mancini, Fabio Trojani
No. 62
Tactical Industry Allocation and Model Uncertainty
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen
No. 61
What Drives the Performance of Convertible-Bond Funds?
Manuel Ammann, Axel Kind, and Ralf Seiz
No. 60
Correlation Risk and Optimal Portfolio Choice
Andrea Buraschi, Paolo Porchia, Fabio Trojani
No. 59
Combining Fair Pricing and Capital Requirements for Non-Life Insurance Companies
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 58
The Impact of Solvency II on Insurance Market Competition - An Economic Assessment
Stefan Schuckmann
No. 57
Learning and Asset Prices under Ambiguous Information
Markus Leippold, Fabio Trojani, Paolo Vanini
No. 56
Ambiguity Aversion and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Patrick Gagliardini, Paolo Porchia, Fabio Trojani
No. 55
Safe Haven Currencies
Angelo Ranaldo, Paul Söderlind
No. 54
Predicting Stock Price Movements: Regressions versus Economists
Paul Söderlind
No. 53
Asset Prices with Locally-Constrained-Entropy Recursive Multiple Priors Utility
Alessandro Sbulez, Fabio Trojani
No. 52
Accurate Short-Term Yield Curve Forecasting using Functional Gradient Descent
Francesco Audrino, Fabio Trojani
No. 51
A General Multivariate Threshold GARCH Model with Dynamic Conditional Correlations
Francesco Audrino, Fabio Trojani
No. 50
An Analysis of Pricing and Basis Risk for Industry Loss Warranties
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser, Denis Toplek
No. 49
Deferred Annuity Contracts under Stochastic Mortality And Interest Rates: Pricing and Model Risk Assessment
Denis Toplek
No. 48
Pension Funds as Institutions for Intertemporal Risk Transfer
Roger Baumann, Heinz Müller
No. 47
Pricing and Performance of Performance of Mutual Funds: Lookback versus Interest Rate Guarantees
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 46
Risk Assessment of Life Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study in a Lévy Framework
Nadine Gatzert, Stefan Kassberger
No. 45
Valuation of Electricity Swing Options by Multistage Stochastic Programming
Gido Haarbrücker, Daniel Kuhn
No. 44
Regime Switching based Portfolio Selection for Pension Funds
Karl Frauendorfer, Ulrich Jacoby, Alvin Schwendener
No. 43
Dynamic Modelling and Optimization of Non-Maturing Accounts
Karl Frauendorfer, Michael Schürle
No. 42
Bounding Methods in Stochastic Optimization: Theory and Applications
Karl Frauendorfer, Daniel Kuhn, Michael Schürle
No. 41
Does Hedge Fund Performance Persist? Overview and New Empirical Evidence
Martin Eling
No. 40
Enterprise Risk Management in Insurance Groups: Measuring Risk Concentration and Default Risk
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser, Stefan Schuckmann
No. 39
Modeling and Management of Nonlinear Dependencies - Copulas in Dynamic Financial Analysis
Martin Eling, Denis Toplek
No. 38
Implicit Options in Life Insurance: An Overview
Nadine Gatzert
No. 37
Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Corporate Taxation
Christian Keuschnigg
No. 36
Monetary Policy Effects on Financial Risk Premia
Paul Söderlind
No. 35
Management Strategies and Dynamic Financial Analysis
Martin Eling, Thomas Parnitzke, Hato Schmeiser
2006 - No. 1 to 34
No. 34
Does the Choice of Performance Measure Influence the Evaluation of Hedge Funds?
Martin Eling, Frank Schuhmacher
No. 33
Asset Management and Surplus Distribution Strategies in Life Insurance: An Examination with Respect to Risk Pricing and Risk Measurement
Nadine Gatzert
No. 32
Implicit Options in Life Insurance: Valuation and Risk Management
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 31
Performance Measurement of Hedge Funds Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Martin Eling
No. 30
The Influence of Corporate Taxes on Pricing and Capital Structure in Property-Liability Insurance
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 29
Assessing the Risk Potential of Premium Payment Options in Participating Life Insurance Contracts
Nadine Gatzert, Hato Schmeiser
No. 28
The Solvency II Process: Overview and Critical Analysis
Martin Eling, Hato Schmeiser, Joan T. Schmit
No. 27
Analysis of Participating Life Insurance Contracts: A Unification Approach
Nadine Gatzert, Alexander Kling
No. 26
Dynamic Financial Analysis: Classification, Conception, and Implementation
Martin Eling, Thomas Parnitzke
No. 25
Analysis of Embedded Options in Individual Pension Schemes in Germany
Alexander Kling, Jochen Russ, Hato Schmeiser
No. 24
Capital Allocation for Insurance Companies - What Good is it?
Helmut Gründl, Hato Schmeiser
No. 23
Life Annuity Insurance versus Self-Annuitization: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Family
Hato Schmeiser, Thomas Post
No. 22
Shortfall Minimizing Portfolios
Heinz Müller, Roger Baumann
No. 21
Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models Using a markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen
No. 20
The Effect of Market Regimes on Style Allocation
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen
No. 19
The Conglomerate Discount: A New Explanation Based on Credit Risk
Manuel Ammann, Michael Verhofen
No. 18
Analyzing Active Investment Strategies Using Tracking Error Variance Decomposition
Manuel Ammann, Stephan Kessler, Jürg Tobler
No. 17
Self-Selection and Advice in Venture Capital Finance
Christian Keuschnigg, Soren Bo Nielsen
No. 16
Pricing and Hedging Mandatory Convertible Bonds
Manuel Ammann and Ralf Seiz
No. 15
C-CAPM wothout Ex Post Data
Paul Söderlind
No. 14
International Stock-Bond Correlations in a Simple Affine Asset Pricing Model
Stefano d'Addona, Axel Kind
No. 13
Simulation-Based Pricing of Convertible Bonds
Manuel Ammann, Axel Kind and Christian Wilde
No. 12
Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship, and the Market for Venture Capital
Christian Keuschnigg and Soren Bo Nielsen
No. 11
Impact of Fund Size on Hedge Fund Performance
Manuel Ammann, Patrick Moerth
No. 10
Information Processing on the Swiss Stock Market
Manuel Ammann and Stephan Kessler
No. 9
Refinancing Mortgages in Switzerland
Karl Frauendorfer and Michael Schürle
No. 8
Energy Business and Finance Policy - Paralles in Methodology and Duties
Karl Frauendorfer, Jens Güssow and Daniel Kuhn
No. 7
Dynamic Asset Allocation with Regime Shifts
Dominik Boos, Jérôme Koller and Olivier Schmid
No. 6
C-CAPM Refinements and the Cross-Section of Returns
Paul Söderlind
No. 5
Dynamic Taylor Rules and the Predictability of Interest Rates
Paul Söderlind, Ulf Söderström and Anders Vredin
No. 4
Is there Evidence of Pessimism and Doubt in Subjective Distributions? Implication s for the Equity Premium Puzzle
Paolo Giordani and Paul Söderlind
No. 3
New Evidence on the Announcement Effect of Convertible and Exchangeable Bonds
Manuel Ammann, Martin Fehr and Ralf Seiz
No. 2
Does the Model Matter? A Valuation Analysis of Employee Stock Options
Manuel Ammann and Ralf Seiz
No. 1
A Testable Credit Risk Framework with Optimal Bankruptcy, Taxes, and a Complex Capital Structure
Manuel Ammann and Michael Genser