Kay Giesecke, Thorsten Schmidt and Stefan Weber Volume 6, Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2008 Risk management is an important component of the investment process. It requires quantitative measures of risk that provide a metric for the comparison of financial positions. In this expository note we give an overview of risk measures. In particular, we contrast… Read More
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In Search of a Modigliani-Miller Economy
Kay Giesecke and Lisa R. Goldberg Volume 2, Number 3, Third Quarter 2004 The Modigliani-Miller theorem describes conditions under which the value of a firm is independent of its leverage ratio. It is one of the cornerstones of finance. A history of this result along with a modern perspective on its derivation is given in… Read More