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Dr. Christian S. Pedersen: Publications

Here follows a list of my published papers, working papers, conference papers and the papers I am currently working on. By clicking on the titles, the papers can be downloaded in Acrobat format.

Publications

  • Derivatives and Downside Risk, Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation (forthcoming).

  • Small Sample Analysis of Performance Measures in the Asymmetric Response Model (with S. Satchell), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, (September 2000) 35(3), 425-430.

  • On the Volatility of Measures of Financial Risk: An Investigation Using Returns From European Markets (with B. Eftekhari and S. Satchell), The European Journal of Finance (2000).

  • An Extended Family of Financial-Risk Measures (with S. Satchell), Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Theory (1998) 23, pp. 89-117.

  • Choosing the Right Measure of Risk: A Survey (with S. Satchell), in "The Current State of Economic Science", 1998, edited by Professor Dr. S. B. Dahiya.

  • A Comparison of the Likely Causes of Asian and US Crashes, and Implications for Policy Reform and the Modelling of Extreme Events (with S. Satchell), Politics, Administration and Change, No. 29, January-June 1998, pages 1-17.

  • Separating Risk and Return in the CAPM: A General Utility-based Approach, European Journal of Operational Research, 1998.

    Working Papers

    1. Small Sample Analysis of Performance Measures in the Asymmetric Response Model (with S. Satchell), IFR Discussion Paper Series, Birkbeck College, London, 1999 (forthcoming).

    2. Performance Measurement with Asymmetric Return Distributions: A Defense of the Sortino Ratio (with S. Satchell), Birkbeck Discussion Paper Series in Financial Economics, 1999 (forthcoming).

    3. Separating Risk and Return in the CAPM: A General Utility-based Approach, Cambridge Discussion Papers in Accounting and Finance, AF39, 1998.

    4. Empirical Tests for Differences in Equilibrium Risk Measures with Application to Downside Risk in Small and Large UK Companies, Cambridge Discussion Papers in Accounting and Finance, No. 41, 1998.

    5. Utility Functions with Parameters Depending on Initial Wealth (with S. Satchell), DAE Working Paper, Amalgamated Series No. 9819, Cambridge University, 1998. Currently under review at the Review of Economic Studies.

    6. Risk, Utility and Switching Between Gambles, (with S. Satchell), DAE Working Paper, Amalgamated Series No. 9735, Cambridge University, 1997.

    7. An Extended Family of Financial-Risk Measures, (with S. Satchell),DAE Working Paper, Amalgamated Series No. 9623, Cambridge University, 1996.

    Conference Proceedings / Presented Papers

    1. Separating Risk and Return in the CAPM: A General Utility-based Approach, Annual Conference of the Institute for Operational Research and Management Science (InfORMS), Cincinatti, May 1999.

    2. Utility Functions with Parameters Depending on Initial Wealth (with S. Satchell), Annual Conference of the Institute for Operational Research and Management Science (InfORMS), Cincinatti, May 1999.

    3. Symmetric Versus Asymmetric Risk: An Empirical Test, The Sixth International Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets: Advances for Exchange Rates, Interest Rates and Asset Management, London, May 1999. Also in the Proceedings of The Third International Stockholm Seminar on Risk Behaviour and Risk Management, 14-16 June 1999, where it was awarded the prize (SEK 25.000) for the best paper in it's session.

    4. Evaluating the Performance of Nearest Neighbour Algorithms when Forecasting US Industry Returns (with S. Satchell), Financial Econometrics Research Centre (FERC) Discussion Paper, City University Business School, London, UK (forthcoming). Currently under review at Financial Analysts Journal.

    Other Papers under Review

    1. On the Characterisation of Investor Preferences by Changes in Wealth (with S. Satchell). Currently under review at The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory.

    2. Asymmetric Equilibrium Risk Measures. Currently under review at The Journal of Empirical Finance.