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January 2007, Volume 8, Issue 1
-   46-55 Mapping corporate drift towards default
 by Arindam Bandyopadhyay
-   56-71 The impact of capital structure on the performance of microfinance institutions
 by Anthony Kyereboah‐Coleman
-   72-78 Value‐at‐risk concept by Swiss private banks
 by Andrey Rogachev
-   79-83 Risk‐seekers or rent‐seekers?
 by Michael Mainelli
-   84-86 The distribution dilemma
 by Chris Gentle
October 2006, Volume 7, Issue 5
-   458-462 Catastrophe forecasting: seeing “gray” among the “black boxes”
 by Michael R. Powers
-   463-487 Dynamic monitoring of financial intermediaries with subordinated debt
 by Gloria González‐Rivera & David Nickerson
-   488-502 The estimation of nominal and real yield curves from government bonds in Israel
 by Zvi Wiener & Helena Pompushko
-   503-524 Fuzzy random‐coefficient volatility models with financial applications
 by K. Thiagarajah & A. Thavaneswaran
-   525-543 Financial applications of ARMA models with GARCH errors
 by M. Ghahramani & A. Thavaneswaran
-   544-558 Parsimonious principle of GARCH models: a Monte‐Carlo approach
 by Jing Wu
-   559-574 Approximating the growth optimal portfolio with a diversified world stock index
 by Truc Le & Eckhard Platen
August 2006, Volume 7, Issue 4
-   345-347 Pure vs speculative risk
 by Michael R. Powers
-   348-371 Credit‐default swap rates and equity volatility: a nonlinear relationship
 by Fathi Abid & Nader Naifar
-   372-385 Pricing credit risk through equity options calibration
 by Marco Fabio Delzio
-   386-401 Pricing credit risk through equity options calibration
 by Marco Fabio Delzio
-   402-414 When does cross‐border acquisition of insurance firms lead to value creation?
 by B. Elango
-   415-424 Comparative statics and optimal portfolios
 by Jean Fernand Nguema
-   425-445 Option pricing for some stochastic volatility models
 by A. Thavaneswaran & J. Singh & S.S. Appadoo
May 2006, Volume 7, Issue 3
-   233-236 The Cramér‐Rao lower bound on variance: Adam and Eve's “uncertainty principle”
 by Michael R. Powers
-   237-254 Effects of maturity choices on loan‐guarantee portfolios1
 by Michel Gendron & Van Son Lai & Issouf Soumaré
-   255-272 Predicting probability of default of Indian corporate bonds: logistic andZ‐score model approaches
 by Arindam Bandyopadhyay
-   273-291 Foreign‐exchange trading risk management with value at risk
 by Mazin A.M. Al Janabi
-   292-300 Can the student‐tdistribution provide accurate value at risk?
 by Chu‐Hsiung Lin & Shan‐Shan Shen
-   301-312 Best execution compliance: new techniques for managing compliance risk
 by Michael Mainelli & Mark Yeandle
-   313-336 Best execution compliance automation: towards an equities compliance workstation
 by Michael Mainelli & Mark Yeandle
March 2006, Volume 7, Issue 2
-   113-116 An insurance paradox
 by Michael R. Powers
-   117-135 Empirical study of value‐at‐risk and expected shortfall models with heavy tails
 by Fotios C. Harmantzis & Linyan Miao & Yifan Chien
-   136-145 Determinants of dividend payout ratios in Ghana
 by Mohammed Amidu & Joshua Abor
-   146-159 Analysis of multinational underwriting cycles in property‐liability insurance
 by Chao‐Chun Leng & Ursina B. Meier
-   160-176 Business cycles in insurance and reinsurance: the case of France, Germany and Switzerland
 by Ursina B. Meier & J. François Outreville
-   177-188 The use of spectral analysis in insurance cycle research
 by Emilio C. Venezian
-   189-214 Application of spectral and ARIMA analysis to combined‐ratio patterns
 by Emilio C. Venezian & Chao‐Chun Leng
January 2006, Volume 7, Issue 1
-   9-23 Granting non‐tradable stock options: the opportunity costs for shareholders and employees
 by Michele Moretto & Giampaolo Rossini
-   24-37 The fund of hedge funds reporting puzzle
 by Noël Amenc & Philippe Malaise & Mathieu Vaissié
-   38-48 Stationarity and stability of underwriting profits in property‐liability insurance
 by Chao‐Chun Leng
-   49-63 Stationarity and stability of underwriting profits in property‐liability insurance
 by Chao‐Chun Leng
-   64-82 Multi‐national underwriting cycles in property‐liability insurance
 by Ursina B. Meier
-   83-97 Multi‐national underwriting cycles in property‐liability insurance
 by Ursina B. Meier
December 2005, Volume 6, Issue 5
-   382-387 VaR stress tests for highly non‐linear portfolios
 by John H.J. Einmahl & Walter N. Foppen & Olivier W. Laseroms & Casper G. de Vries
-   388-403 Value‐at‐risk with info‐gap uncertainty
 by Yakov Ben‐Haim
-   404-415 Reciprocal insurance: a case of supply created by demand
 by Emilio C. Venezian
-   416-423 Classic and modern measures of risk in fixed‐income portfolio optimization
 by Miguel Ángel Martín Mato
-   424-437 Trade size, trade frequency, and the volatility‐volume relation
 by Frederick (Fengming) Song & Hui Tan & Yunfeng Wu
-   438-445 The effect of capital structure on profitability: an empirical analysis of listed firms in Ghana
 by Joshua Abor
September 2005, Volume 6, Issue 4
-   292-305 Examining risk reporting in UK public companies
 by Philip M. Linsley & Philip J. Shrives
-   306-318 Managing foreign exchange risk among Ghanaian firms
 by Joshua Abor
-   319-334 A “square‐root rule” for reinsurance? Evidence from several national markets
 by Emilio C. Venezian & Krupa S. Viswanathan & Iana B. Jucá
-   335-340 Estimating the cost of capital: considerations for small business
 by Ralph Palliam
-   341-348 Application of a multi‐criteria model for determining risk premium
 by Ralph Palliam
-   349-365 t‐statistics for weighted means in credit risk modeling
 by Lisa R. Goldberg & Alec N. Kercheval & Kiseop Lee
July 2005, Volume 6, Issue 3
-   192-207 Pricing issues in aviation insurance and reinsurance
 by Morton N. Lane
-   208-225 An autoregressive conditional duration model of credit‐risk contagion
 by Sergio M. Focardi & Frank J. Fabozzi
-    226-238 Modeling risk for long and short trading positions
 by Timotheos Angelidis & Stavros Degiannakis
-   239-250 Insurance market equilibrium: a multi‐period dynamic solution
 by Wen‐chang Lin
-   251-266 Preferences analysis, transactions, and volatility
 by Jaroslav Zajac
-   267-274 Towards multi‐factor models of decision making and risk
 by Michael Nwogugu
April 2005, Volume 6, Issue 2
-   87-97 The use of derivatives by US insurers
 by Mayank Raturi
-   98-117 Diffusion models of insurer net worth: can one dimension suffice?
 by Jiandong Ren
-    118-134 Coping with credit risk
 by Henri Loubergé & Harris Schlesinger
-   135-149 Asset and liability management in financial crisis
 by Arzu Tektas & E. Nur Ozkan‐Gunay & Gokhan Gunay
-   150-162 Towards multi‐factor models of decision making and risk
 by Michael Nwogugu
-   163-173 Towards multi‐factor models of decision making and risk
 by Michael Nwogugu
February 2005, Volume 6, Issue 1
-   6-16 Enhancing reinsurance efficiency using index‐based instruments
 by Lixin Zeng
-   17-30 Betting on country alphas to hedge against Asian crisis risk
 by Stephen Miller
-   31-39 Theory of portfolio and risk based on incremental entropy
 by Jianshe Ou
-   40-46 Developing and implementing a stochastic decision‐support model within an organizational context
 by Kjetil Høyland & Erik Ranberg & Stein W. Wallace
-   47-59 Forecasts from biased experts: a “meta‐credibility” problem
 by Michael R. Powers
-   60-68 Determinant factors of leverage
 by Yaiza García Padrón & Rosa María Cáceres Apolinario & Octavio Maroto Santana & María Concepción Verona Martel & Lourdes Jordán Sales
April 2004, Volume 5, Issue 4
-   14-17 M&A integration at Delta Connection Inc
 by J.T. Fisher
-   20-21 Unlocking the value of corporate real estate
 by Lauralee Martin
-   34-44 Capital market solutions to terrorism risk coverage: a feasibility study
 by Sylvie Bouriaux & William L. Scott
March 2004, Volume 5, Issue 3
-   7-9 Assessing the regulatory impact: the challenges of UCITS III — Germany's regulators become the first to launch derivatives ordinance
 by Kai D. Leifert
-   10-13 Assessing the regulatory impact: credit risk — going beyond Basel II
 by Richard Tschemernjak
-   23-27 The continuing saga — Basel II developments: liquidity regulation into the 21st century
 by Phil Leverick
-   28-33 The continuing saga — Basel II developments: bank capital management in the light of Basel II — how to manage capital in financial institutions
 by David Rowe & Dean Jovic & Richard Reeves
-   34-37 Re‐assessing 21st century risk: 21st century trends in risk management — board level decisions set the agenda
 by Chris Mundy
-   38-40 Re‐assessing 21st century risk: the reaction to risky financial reporting — the rise and rise of cash
 by Jon Purr
-   58-65 The risk management of everything
 by Michael Power
February 2004, Volume 5, Issue 2
-   6-15 Integrating Interest Rate Risk in Credit Portfolio Models
 by Peter Grundke
-    16-32 Forecasting Retail Portfolio Credit Risk
 by Daniel Rösch & Harald Scheule
-   33-44 Effect of Uncertainties in Modeling Tropical Cyclones on Pricing of Catastrophe Bonds:A Case Study
 by Siamak Daneshvaran & Robert E. Morden
-   45-51 Arbitrage Algebra and the Price of Multi‐Peril ILS
 by Morton N. Lane
-    52-57 Long‐Term Value at Risk
 by Kevin Dowd & David Blake & Andrew Cairns
-   58-63 Developing and Implementing a Stochastic Decision‐Support Model Within an Organizational Context:Part II—The Organization
 by Kjetil Høyland & Erik Ranberg & Stein W. Wallace
April 2003, Volume 5, Issue 1
-   5-26 Fat Tails, Scaling, and Stable Laws:A Critical Look at Modeling Extremal Events in Financial Phenomena
 by Sergio M. Focardi & Frank J. Fabozzi
-    27-39 Pricing Vulnerable Options With Copulas
 by Umberto Cherubini & Elisa Luciano
-   40-50 A Quantile‐Fitting Approach to Value at Risk for Options
 by Doowoo Nam & Benton E. Gup
-   51-63 Discontinuous Hedging Strategies for Multi‐period Guarantees in Life Insurance
 by Snorre Lindset
-   64-70 Impact of Risk Management on the Recent Market Volatility in the U.S. and Japan
 by Leo M. Tilman & Raymond Wong & Misahiro Yamaguchi
-   71-87 Review of Trends in Insurance Securitization April 2002 to March 2003
 by Morton N. Lane & Roger G. Beckwith
March 2003, Volume 4, Issue 4
-    6-17 Single Factor Stochastic Models with Seasonality Applied to Underlying Weather Derivatives Variables
 by Hipòlit Torró & Vicente Meneu & Enric Valor
-   18-25 Global Warming and Financial Umbrellas
 by Cesare Dosi & Michele Moretto
-   26-39 “Leapfrogging” the Variance: The Financial Management of Extreme‐Event Risk
 by Michael R. Powers
-   40-46 Capital Markets and Insurance Cycles
 by Kurt Karl & Thomas Holzheu & Mayank Raturi
-   47-54 Insurance League: Italy vs. U.K
 by Andrea Consiglio & David Saunders & Stavros Zenios
-   55-60 Developing and Implementing a Stochastic Decision‐Support Model Within an Organizational Context:Part I—The Model
 by Kjetil Høyland & Erik Ranberg & Stein W. Wallace
-   61-63 A Critique of Modeled Credit Default Swap Duration
 by David A. Boberski
February 2003, Volume 4, Issue 3
-   5-26 Match Funding Prepayable Assets with Callable Debts Using Simulated Prepayment Bounds
 by Shijun Liu & Peter A. Mozer
-   27-42 Risk Disaggregation and Credit Risk Valuation in a Merton Framework
 by Hayette Gatfaoui
-   43-59 A Review of Stochastic Volatility Processes: Properties and Implications
 by Dimitris Psychoyios & George Skiadopoulos & Panayotis Alexakis
-   61-74 Calculating Quantile‐Based Risk Analytics withL‐Estimators
 by Helmut Mausser
-   75-81 The Risk Finance of Class Action Settlement Pressure
 by J.B. Heaton
-   82-86 Insuring Callable Bonds: Selecting the Right Payment Plan
 by Andrew Kalotay & Leslie Abreo
January 2003, Volume 4, Issue 2
-   5-18 Long‐Term Economic and Market Trends and Their Implications for Asset/Liability Management of Insurance Companies
 by Christian Gilles & Larry Rubin & John Ryding & Leo M. Tilman & Ajay Rajadhyaksha
-   19-28 Exploring the Limitations of Value at Risk: How Good Is It in Practice?
 by Andreas Krause
-   29-42 The Effect of Asymmetries on Stock Index Return Value‐at‐Risk Estimates
 by Chris Brooks & Gita Persand
-    43-46 A Shortcut to Sign Incremental Value at Risk for Risk Allocation
 by Dirk Tasche & Luisa Tibiletti
-   47-55 The Effect of Model Risk on the Valuation of Barrier Options
 by Ali Hirsa & Georges Courtadon & Dilip B. Madan
-   56-67 The Impact of Valuation Uncertainty in the Pricing of Risky Debt
 by Jorge R. Sobehart & Sean C. Keenan
April 2002, Volume 4, Issue 1
-   7-14 Quantitative Terrorism Risk Assessment
 by Gordon Woo
-   15-24 Advanced Techniques for Modeling Terrorism Risk
 by John A. Major
-   25-36 The Near‐Miss Management of Operational Risk
 by Alexander Muermann & Ulku Oktem
-   37-41 The Financial Market Consequences of 9/11
 by Richard A. Koss
-   42-45 The Basel 2 Approach to Bank Operational Risk: Regulation on the Wrong Track
 by Richard J. Herring
-   47-56 Operational Risk Capital: A Problem of Definition
 by Andrew Kuritzkes
-   57-62 Legal Solvency Tests and Financial Economics
 by J.B. Heaton
March 2002, Volume 3, Issue 4
-   6-34 Static versus Dynamic Hedging of Exotic Options: An Evaluation of Hedge Performance via Simulation
 by Robert G. Tompkins
-   35-40 Assessing the Pre‐Commitment Approach to Bank Capital Regulation
 by Kevin Dowd
-   41-53 Dimension Reduction in the Computation of Value‐at‐Risk
 by Claudio Albanese & Ken Jackson & Petter Wiberg
-   54-72 Insuring California Earthquakes and the Role for Catastrophe Bonds
 by Jose S. Penalva Zuasti
-   73-82 Loss Ratio on Insurance Equity Securities: A New Step in Insurance Securitization
 by Sylvie Bouriaux & David T. Russell
-   83-87 Have Financial Markets Learned from Past Crises? (Part II)
 by Leo M. Tilman & Ajay Rajadhyaksha
February 2002, Volume 3, Issue 3
-   6-13 The Impact of Liquidity Risk on the Prices of Swaps with Default Risk
 by George L. Ye
-   14-23 The Properties of Incremental VaR in Monte Carlo Simulations
 by Zheng Wang
-   24-35 Thoughts on Credit Risk Diversification: Comparing Credit Ratings Volatility Across Asset Classes
 by Peter Rubinstein & Leo M. Tilman & Alan Todd
-   36-47 What Drives Financial Innovation in the Insurance Industry?
 by David Laster & Mayank Raturi
-   48-59 The Pricing of Insurance‐Linked Securities Under Interest Rate Uncertainty
 by Patrice Poncet & Victor E. Vaugirard
-   60-64 Market Value of Insurance Contracts with Profit Sharing
 by Pieter Bouwknegt & Antoon Pelsser
-   65-71 An Introduction to Credit Derivatives
 by Gunter Dufey & Florian Rehm
January 2002, Volume 3, Issue 2
-   6-21 Design and Pricing of Equity‐Linked Life Insurance under Stochastic Interest Rates
 by Anna Rita Bacinello & Svein‐Arne Persson
-   22-33 An Extreme Value Theory Approach to Calculating Minimum Capital Risk Requirements
 by Chris Brooks & Andrew D. Clare & Gita Persand
-   34-45 Risk‐Based Capital Allocation Using a Coherent Measure of Risk
 by Manoj K. Singh
-   46-52 Installment Options and Static Hedging
 by Mark H.A. Davis & Walter Schachermayer & Robert G. Tompkins
-   53-61 Hypothesis Test of Default Correlation and Application to Specific Risk
 by Jongwoo Kim
-   62-63 Have Financial Markets Learned from Past Crises?
 by Leo M. Tilman
April 2001, Volume 3, Issue 1
-   9-17 Asset/Liability Management for Insurers in the New Era: Focus on Value
 by David F. Babbel
-   19-30 Life Insurance Contracts with Embedded Options
 by Peter Løchte Jørgensen
-    31-43 The Tail that Wags the Dog: Integrating Credit Risk in Asset Portfolios
 by Norbert J. Jobst & Stavros A. Zenios
-   45-56 Factor Models: Portfolio Credit Risks When Defaults are Correlated
 by Philipp J. Schönbucher
-   57-71 Asset/Liability Management for Pension Funds Using CVaR Constraints
 by Erik Bogentoft & H. Edwin Romeijn & Stanislav Uryasev
March 2001, Volume 2, Issue 4
-   5-15 Better Dynamic Hedging
 by Jarrod Wilcox
-   16-32 Assessing Market Risk for Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Portfolios
 by François‐Serge Lhabitant
-   33-38 Estimating the Failure Probabilities of Financial Institutions: A Simple Approach
 by Kevin Dowd
-   39-45 Territorial Diversification of Catastrophe Bonds
 by Gordon Woo
-   46-52 Stirrings in Secondary Markets
 by Morton N. Lane
-   53-59 Untangling Spreads: Risk, Credit, Liquidity and All That
 by Leo M. Tilman & Gene Cohler
February 2001, Volume 2, Issue 3
-    6-16 The Value of Integrative Risk Management for Insurance Products with Guarantees
 by Andrea Consiglio & Flavio Cocco & Stavros A. Zenios
-   17-34 Estimating Credit Risk Capital: What's the Use?
 by Paul Kupiec
-   35-61 Applying Portfolio Credit Risk Models to Retail Portfolios
 by Nisso Bucay & Dan Rosen
-   62-69 CDOs as Self‐Contained Reinsurance Structures
 by Morton N. Lane
-   70-82 Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: Increasing Returns While Lowering Large Risks!
 by J.V. Andersen & D. Sornette
-   83-91 Measuring Predictive Accuracy of Value‐at‐Risk Models: Issues, Paradigms, and Directions
 by Leo M. Tilman & Pavel Brusilovskiy
January 2001, Volume 2, Issue 2
-   6-17 Cumulative Losses, Capital Reserves, and Loss Limits
 by Hubert Shen
-   18-28 The Emerging Role of Patent Law in Risk Finance
 by J.B. Heaton
-   29-35 Using Cat Models for Optimal Risk Allocation of P&C Liability Portfolios
 by Lixin Zeng
-   36-48 Applying Scenario Optimization to Portfolio Credit Risk
 by Helmut Mausser & Dan Rosen
-   49-55 Calculating VaR Through Quadratic Approximations
 by Jorge Mina
-   56-60 Risk Management Revolution: The Morning After
 by Leo M. Tilman
April 2000, Volume 2, Issue 1
-   10-18 Investing in Skews
 by Dilip B. Madan & Gavin S. Mcphail
-   19-26 Model‐Independent Measures of Volatility Exposure
 by Alvin Kuruc
-   27-35 Does Volatility Pay?
 by Giovanni Barone‐Adesi
-   36-41 A Practitioner's Guide to Active Portfolio Management Using Implied View
 by Bernard Lee
-   42-50 Capital Requirement: A New Method Based on Extreme Price Variations
 by François Longin
-   51-58 Accounting for Value at Risk in Financial Institutions' Portfolios
 by Kevin Dowd
-   59-65 Sending the Herd Off the Cliff Edge: The Disturbing Interaction Between Herding and Market‐Sensitive Risk Management Practices
 by Avinash Persaud
-   66-78 Efficient Risk/Return Frontiers for Credit Risk
 by Helmut Mausser & Dan Rosen
March 2000, Volume 1, Issue 4
-   4-6 Memoryless Trading
 by William Eckhardt & Nicholas G. Polson
-   17-26 Actuarial versus Financial Pricing of Insurance
 by Paul Embrechts
-   27-32 On the Basis Risk of Industry Loss Warranties
 by Lixin Zeng
-   33-42 Price Discovery and Energy Risk, or How Futures Contracts Are Changing the Energy Markets Forever: The Case of the New York Mercantile Exchange
 by Daniel Rappaport
-   43-46 Estimating Value at Risk: A Subjective Approach
 by Kevin Dowd
-   47-54 Changing Regulatory Capital to Include Liquidity and Management Intervention
 by Chris Marrison & Til Schuermann & John D. Stroughair
-   55-77 An Empirical Assessment of a Simple Contingent‐Claims Model for the Valuation of Risky Debt
 by Jeffrey R. Bohn
February 2000, Volume 1, Issue 3
-   9-22 Quantifying Event Risk: The Next Convergence
 by Robert Ceske & José V. Hernández & Luis M. Sánchez
-   24-41 Customizing Indemnity Contracts and Indexed Cat Bonds for Natural Hazard Risks
 by David C. Croson & Howard C. Kunreuther
-   43-51 Toward a Better Estimation of Wrong‐Way Credit Exposure
 by Christopher C. Finger
-   53-70 A Survey of Contingent‐Claims Approaches to Risky Debt Valuation
 by Jeffrey R. Bohn
-   72-78 Pricing Weather Derivatives
 by Lixin Zeng
January 2000, Volume 1, Issue 2
-   9-18 Hedging Financial Risks Subject to Asymmetric Information
 by Angelo Arvanitis & Jonathon Gregory & Richard Martin
-   19-28 Weather Derivatives and Their Implications for Power Markets
 by Don Ellithorpe & Scott Putnam
-    30-35 Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Use of Extreme Value Theory in Risk Management
 by Francis X. Diebold & Til Schuermann & John D. Stroughair
-   37-47 Another Perspective on Credit Risk Transfer and Asset Securitization
 by Richard Cantor & Stanislas Rouyer
-   49-75 Analyzing Insurance‐Linked Securities
 by Eduardo Canabarro & Markus Finkemeier & Richard R. Anderson & Fouad Bendimerad
January 1999, Volume 1, Issue 1
-   11-27 Creating Shareholder Value: Turning Risk Management into a Competitive Advantage
 by Steve Strongin & Melanie Petsch
-   29-39 Risk Allocation for Pension Funds: Beyond Measurement to Management
 by Hubert Shen
-   41-51 Investing in Leveraged Index Funds
 by Nicholas G. Polson & Jeffrey Yasumoto
-   52-69 P&C RAROC: A Catalyst for Improved Capital Management in the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry
 by Peter Nakada & Hemant Shah & H. Ugur Koyluoglu & Olivier Collignon
-   71-86 Risk Cubes or Price Risk and Ratings (Part II)
 by Morton N. Lane & Oleg Y. Movchan
-   87-105 Commercial Paper Defaults and Rating Transitions, 1972–1995
 by Lea V. Carty & Dana Lieberman
-   106-114 A User's Guide to Interest Rate Models: Applications for Structured Finance
 by J. Paul Joshi & Larry Swertloff
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