Author : Holger Kraft
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540212300
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (123 download)
Book Synopsis Optimal Portfolios with Stochastic Interest Rates and Defaultable Assets by : Holger Kraft
Download or read book Optimal Portfolios with Stochastic Interest Rates and Defaultable Assets written by Holger Kraft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous-time portfolio problem consists of finding the optimal investment strategy of an investor. In the classical Merton problem the investor can allocate his funds to a riskless savings account and risky assets. However, to get explicit results, it is assumed that the interest rates are deterministic and that the assets are default free. In this monograph both assumptions are weakened: The author analyzes and solves portfolio problems with stochastic interest rates and with defaultable assets. Besides, he briefly discusses how portfolio problems with foreign assets can be handled. The focus of the monograph is twofold: On the one hand, the economical problems are carefully explained, on the other hand their formal solution is rigorously presented. For this reason the text should be of interest to researchers with a Finance background as well as to researchers with a more formal background who would like to see how mathematics is applied to portfolio theory. TOC:Preliminaries from Stochastics.- Optimal Portfolios with Stochastic Interest Rates.- Elasticity Approach to Portfolio Optimization.- Barrier Derivatives with Curved Boundaries.- Optimal Portfolios with Dafaultable Assets - A Firm Value Approach.- References.- Abbreviations.- Notations.