本研究以企業現金持有之理論結合經理人股票選擇權是否使經理人有不同的投資決策。並提出在超額現金情境之下，經理人具有股票選擇權的風險誘因將會傾向透過執行併購的方式，增加非系統性風險的投資，並貢獻長遠的經濟利潤。本研究蒐集於 1992 年至 2014 年的 S&P1500 企業，根據是否具有超額現金將公司進行分組，並對選擇權誘因進行回歸分析。實證結果顯示具中有風險誘因的經理人在具有超額現金的公司中會有顯著更高的傾向執行併購，尤其當公司同時是屬於舊產業。此外當排除全額股票支付的併購與公開上市的被併公司後，投資人會給予顯著的正面反應。 / This study combines the cash holdings theory and executive stock options (ESOs), and investigates whether excess cash holdings could enlarge the risk incentive effect of ESOs on idiosyncratic-risk investments with positive NPV via mergers and acquisitions (M&As). By examining the Standard and Poor indexed 1500 firms from 1992 to 2014, we find that CEO with ESOs in cash-rich firm is significantly more likely to make M&As especially when the cash-rich firm is in old economy. In addition, investors give positive reaction when CEO with ESOs in cash-rich firm acquires a non-public target and doesn’t adopt the all-stock payment.

本研究指在探討學校型態實驗教育學校之家長選擇權與學校滿意度，採用「學校型態實驗教育家長選擇權與學校滿意度之調查問卷」，以臺灣地區學校型態實驗教育學校之家長為研究對象，有效問卷共564份。資料回收以描述性統計、因素分析、項目分析、交叉分析、皮爾森積差相關、獨立樣本t考驗、單因子變異數分析、迴歸分析等統計方法進行分析，其研究結果如下： 一、 學校型態實驗教育學校之家長的入學資訊來源重要性依序為親身觀察學校、依孩子學習狀況與取向共同討論、學校辦理實驗教育情形、參與該校活動等為主要參考訊息。 二、 家長選擇權首重為學習與適應，接著為教育專業及行政與環境。 三、 家長對學校滿意高低依序為教師教學與學生表現、行政服務與家長參與。 四、 不同教育程度、家庭收入、職業、學區、是否為轉學生的學校型態實驗教育家長，在家長選擇權的知覺上有差異。 五、 不同教育程度、家庭收入、職業、學區的學校型態實驗教育家長，在對學校滿意度的態度上有差異。 六、 學校型態實驗教育的家長在家長選擇權與對學校滿意度具有高度正相關。 七、 學校型態實驗教育學校的家長在家長選擇權對學校滿意度具有預測力。 根據研究結果，對學校型態實驗教育之實務、規劃、未來研究提出相關建議。 / The purpose of this research was to understand a study of school choice and satisfaction survey of school-based experimental education. “Questionnaire of school choice and satisfaction survey of school-based experimental education” was delivered to the parents, whose children were studied in of school-based experimental education in Taiwan. There were 564 valied questionnaires. Statistical techniques used to analyze the collected data are descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and multiple regression analysis methods. The results were as follows: 1. As to admission information, parents put an emphasis on four factors, the degree in order is: personal observation, according to the child learning situation and orientation to discuss, view on school-based experimental, participate in school activities. 2. As to school choice, the degree in order is: student learning and adaptation, school education concept and teacher 's teaching, school administration and parental communication and environmental equipment. 3. As to satisfaction survey of school-based experimental education, in descending order is: teachers' teaching and student learning, school administration and parent-teacher communication. 4. Parents with different background showed significant differences on decision making for choosing school. 5. Parents with different background showed significant differences on school satisfaction. 6. There was significant canonical correlation between decision making for choosing school and school satisfaction. 7. The choosing school variables can significantly predict the parent’s satisfaction of school. The research findings and suggestions can serve as reference for educational authorities, elementary school principals and subsequent related studies.

第一篇論述討論處置效果於選擇權市場的實證。處置效果係指投資人在處分資產時，傾向盡快賣出有未實現利得的投資部位，並且繼續持有有未實現損失的投資部位的行為偏誤現象。文獻上有關處置效果的實證多半集中在股票市場而少有於選擇權市場的實證。選擇權市場一般認為是具有私有資訊及較具備金融知識與經驗的投資人會選擇交易的市場。本文實證處置效果在指數選擇權市場上的影響。我們認為對於選擇權投資人來說，價內外程度是最重要且顯而易見的資訊，是很直觀可以衡量可能利得及損失的參考點。相較於傳統衡量根據過去交易價格所形成的未實現損益指標，價內外程度更能吸引投資人的注意力。以本文所提出的基於價內外程度衡量之賣出傾向指標(Moneyness-based Propensity to Sell, MPS)以及根據Grinblatt and Han (2005)所形成的調整後未實現資本利得指標(adjusted Capital Gains Overhang, ACGO)，每周將買權(賣權)排序成五等分後，我們發現持有最高等分的MPS或ACGO的買權(賣權)並賣出最低等分的買權(賣權)所形成的投資組合能夠產生超額報酬，顯示處置效果在指數選擇權市場亦存在。利用雙重排序(double sorting)的方法，我們發現MPS相較於ACGO，是較能夠在選擇權市場捕捉處置效果的指標。第二篇論述討論相似度衡量策略在期貨市場獲利的可能性。文獻上對於技術交易是否能產生顯著的報酬結果並不一致，然而實務上分析過去的價格走勢並使用技術指標所產生的訊號，是廣泛被接受的。現有測試技術交易指標獲利能力的文獻，通常假設投資人在實證測試的樣本期間一致性的參考某個交易指標產生的交易訊號並依此交易。然而實務上投資人可能同時參考不同的交易指標，每次交易可能根據不同交易指標所產生的訊號，且投資人會從歷史交易價格走勢中尋找類似於現有走勢的狀況，以這些歷史走勢接續的報酬率做為現有走勢未來報酬率的預期值。本文中我們提出一個較符合實際狀況的決策過程來描述技術交易投資人的行為，並重新檢視技術交易的獲利能力。我們提出的決策過程包含三個步驟。首先投資人建立一個特徵向量，包含投資人所認為足以預測未來報酬率並足以描述現況的指標。第二個步驟，投資人從過去某段期間中尋找相似於現有特徵向量的歷史狀況，並以這些歷史狀況接續的報酬率來作為預測的根據。最後，投資人依照過去的歷史狀況與現在有多相似，作為接續報酬率的加權權重，並以相似度權重加權平均報酬來做為未來報酬率的預測值，我們將依照相似度加權報酬所產生交易訊號所形成的策略稱為相似度衡量交易策略(Similarity-based trading rules)。我們檢視相似度衡量交易策略在九個不同的期貨市場中的獲利能力，在考量data-snooping及交易成本後，每日相似度衡量交易策略仍在其中六個市場中獲得顯著的報酬率。 / The disposition effect, which refers to the tendency of investors to selling their winning investments too soon and to hold losing investments too long, has been well-documented in the extant literature. However, while empirical researches focus on examining the behavioral bias in the stock market, little attention is paid to the option market, where most informed investors and sophisticated traders gather. This essay tests for the disposition effect on the index options market. We argue that moneyness, the most salient and readily available information for option investors, is a natural reference point for potential gains and losses, which likely attracts market participants’ attention more than traditional measures that are based on past trading prices. Based on the Moneyness-based Propensity to Sell (MPS) measure that we introduce and an adjusted capital gains overhang (ACGO) measure of Grinblatt and Han (2005), we find that a strategy formed by buying calls/puts in the highest MPS or ACGO quintile and selling those in the lowest quintile would generate significant abnormal returns, suggesting the presence of the disposition effect. Using double sorting method, we find that the MPS is better as a measure in capturing the disposition effect on the options market than the ACGO. While the literature documents mixed results for the profitability of technical trading rules, the use of technical buy/sell signals based on analyzing past prices is widely accepted by practitioners. The existing literature on testing the predictive ability of technical trading mostly assumes that a technical investor consistently makes investment decisions based on the buy/sell signals according to one particular trading rule during the entire sample period. However this may be far from reality. Technical investors may simultaneously make predictions based on different technical indicators and follow different technical signals. Furthermore, they analyze historical price patterns that are similar to the current market condition and make assessment of future returns based on the subsequent returns of these similar patterns. The process is known as charting. We attempt to propose a more realistic decision-making process that incorporates the similarity-based predictors to account for technical investors’ decisions in the real world and reexamine the profitability of technical trading rules. The proposed process includes three steps. First, the investor attempts to predict future returns based on a vector of current characteristics that is sufficient for his assessment of the future returns and to depict the present scenario of the stock market. Second, the investor searches for the similar patterns in a specific time window prior to the current date and make an assessment of the future returns based on how similar these past patterns and the current pattern are and how rewarding the subsequent returns of the similar patterns are. Third, the investor is assumed to form a similarity-based indicator which is an assessment of the future returns depended on the similarity-weighted average of all previously observed values of the subsequent returns. The technical investor is then assumed to buy/sell according to the signals generated by the similarity-based trading rules (SBTR). We examine the profitability of the SBTR in nine futures markets and find significantly positive and robust returns after considering the data-snooping adjustments and transaction costs in six of the nine markets.

國內外對BOT實質選擇權之研究，大多集中於BOT主體本身所隱含之各種選擇權價值，鮮少論及BOT附屬事業之選擇權價值。惟因交通運輸BOT主體之自償率往往偏低，故須以保證最小運量或特許經營附屬事業等方式，來吸引潛在投資者。附屬事業對整個BOT計畫價值的影響頗大，如何針對其選擇權之價值加以分析為本研究的主要課題。個案將以台灣南北高速鐵路計畫為例，對其附屬事業之放棄選擇權加以探討。 本研究將主要探討下列課題，並提出研究結果： 一、有限差分法及蒙地卡羅模擬法計算選擇權價值，其間之差異？本 文利用有限差分法及蒙地卡羅模擬法來各別求算BOT 附屬事業的 放棄選擇權價值，一來了解 BOT 附屬事業的放棄選擇權價的大 小，二來比較有限差分法及蒙地卡羅模擬法兩者間的差異。 二、BOT附屬事業的放棄選擇權是否受主體事業的經營績效所影響？ 三、BOT附屬事業是否須考量履約保證金之設計？ 四、BOT主體決定經營或放棄時，是否會影響其附屬事業之放棄選擇 權價值？ 本研究係以蒙地卡羅模擬法及有限差分法單獨估計台灣南北高速鐵路附屬事業之放棄選擇權價值，並建立運輸主體與附屬事業間價值的關聯，再以蒙地卡羅模擬法作更精確的估算。另使用單因子變異數分析及Tukey's Multiple Comparison Method之統計方法，驗證BOT主體與其附屬事業選擇權間之相關性，期能有助於日後BOT計畫之參與者評估及決策使用。 / The study of the Real Option Analysis (ROA) thesis of BOT generally focus is on the principal parts of the project only, rarely is considered the option of ancillary business of BOT. Because the self-liquidation-ratio of the transportation of BOT is low, it needs the government financial support (minimum traffic guarantee or revenue enhancements) to attract the interest of intended investors. The influence of the ancillary business of BOT is huge, so how to evaluate the option is the big issue of thesis. The case focus on the Taiwan High Speed Rail BOT project, and will study the option value of it’s ancillary business. Thesis will discuss the following issues, and develop the result of study. 1.The calculation difference between Monte Carlo Simulation & Finite Difference Method to work out option value, Thesis will use the Monte Carlo Simulation & Finite Difference Method to work out the abandon option value of ancillary business of BOT. To get the abandon option value and compare the calculation difference between Monte Carol Simulation & Finite Difference Method. 2.Will the abandon option value of ancillary business of BOT be influenced by the principal parts of the project？ 3.Is there a need to consider the performance security deposit of ancillary business of BOT？ 4.Will the decision of BOT impact the abandon option value of ancillary business or not？ The thesis will use the Monte Carol Simulation & Finite Difference Method to calculate the abandon option value of ancillary business of Taiwan North-South High-Speed Railway Project (THR), and create the relation between the BOT & it’s ancillary business. The thesis will use the ANOVA & Tuley’s Multiple Comparison Method to validate the relationship, and hope it will let the participator to consider in the future.

過去的三十年間由於評價美式選擇權所產生的自由邊界問題已經有相當的研究成果。本論文將證明自由邊界問題的解為遞增函數。更進一步提出自由邊界凹性的嚴謹証明。利用我們的結論可以得知美式選擇權的最佳履約邊界對時間而言為嚴格遞減的凹函數。這個結果對可用來求導最佳履約邊界的漸近解。 對於美式交換選擇權，我們將其自由邊界問題轉換成單變數的積分方程，同時提供一個永續型美式交換選擇權的評價公式。對於有限時間的美式交換選擇權的最佳履約邊界，我們將提供一個接近到期日的漸近解並發展一個數值方法求其數值解。數值計算的結果顯示漸近解在接近到期日時與數值解非常接近。 對於評價美式選擇權，我們提出使用混合整數非線性規劃(MINLP)的模型，這個模型的最佳解同時提供賣方的完全避險策略、買方的最佳交易策略與美式選擇權的公平價格。因為求算MINLP模型的解需耗用大量的計算時間，我們證明此模型和其非線性規劃的寬鬆問題有相同的最佳解，所以只需求算寬鬆問題即可。觀察數值結果亦顯示非線性規劃的寬鬆問題可以大幅的降低計算的時間。此外，當市場的價格低於公平價格時，我們提出一個最小化賣方期望損失的數學規劃模型，此模型的解提供賣方最小化其期望損失的避險策略。 / In the past three decades, a great deal of effort has been made on solving the free boundary problem (FBP) arising from American option valuation problems. In this dissertation, we show that the solutions, the price and the free boundary, of this FBP are increasing functions. Furthermore, we provide a rigorous verification that the free boundary of this problem is concave. Our results imply that the optimal exercise boundary of an American call is a strictly decreasing concave function of time. These results will provide a useful information to obtain an asymptotic formula for the optimal exercise boundary. For pricing of American exchange options (AEO), we convert the associated FBP into a single variable integral equation (IE) and provide a formula for valuating the perpetual AEO. For the finite horizon AEO, we propose an asymptotic solution as time is near to expiration and develop a numerical method for its optimal exercise boundary. Compared with the computational results, the values of our asymptotic solution are close to the computational results as time is near to expiration. For valuating American options, we develop a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model. The solution of the MINLP model provides a hedging portfolio for writers, the optimal trading strategy for buyers, and the fair price for American options at the same time. We show that it can be solved by its nonlinear programming (NLP) relaxation. The numerical results reveal that the use of NLP relaxation reduces the computation time rapidly. Moreover, when the market price is less than the fair price, we propose a minimum expected loss model. The solution of this model provides a hedging strategy that minimizes the expected loss for the writer.

本研究分為兩個部份，第一部份提出評價選擇權時，應考慮加價利益(Mark-Up Interest)的觀點，第二部份則提出信用違約交換選擇權的新評價模型。 在第一部份，所謂加價利益是指選擇權賣方為彌補採取避險組合後仍可能發生的損失而向選擇權買方收取的風險補償。本研究的方法是將選擇權市價拆解成理論公平賭局價格與加價利益，建立包含加價利益、買賣權平價理論、隱含標的價格與猜測波動度的選擇權評價模型，解決隱含波動度微笑(implied volatility smile)所帶來模型內部不一致的問題。在建立各種情境條件下之加價利益後，可用來評估選擇權市價的合理性，以提升買賣雙方對市價的合理判斷，有利於風險管理者進行選擇權之造市操作與避險。本研究經由對台指選擇權(TXO)的實證結果發現：加價利益受到距到期交易日、價況程度(moneyness)及猜測波動度的影響。 第二部份所提出之信用違約交換選擇權的新評價模型則是延伸Schonbucher ( 2000, 2003, 2004 )、Brigo ( 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006 )、Brigo & Mercurio ( 2006 )、Brigo & Morini ( 2005 )、Jamshidian ( 2004 ) 與Wu ( 2006 ) 的研究，以市場上交易之各年期信用違約交換之商品所導出之費率期間內之各單期( single tenor )遠期信用違約交換率之費率端價值做為計價資產，假設各單期遠期違約交換率為對數常態分配下，可以將信用違約交換選擇權拆解為由各單期加總之違約交換選擇權，應用在投資銀行發行許多相同標的但不同起始日、不同到期日之一系列信用違約交換選擇權( CDS options )時，可以具有評價簡易的優勢，吻合各期間之信用市場狀況，避免套利機會，並能運用信用違約交換( CDS )，增進避險與管理信用風險之技術。 / This thesis is composed of two parts. The first part is the standpoint of the “Mark-Up Interest” on options. The second part is the new model about pricing and hedging on credit default swap options. In the first part, the Mark-Up Interest is regarded as the reward on the hedging portfolio to compensate for possible losses. For presenting this, options market prices are decomposed into the fair-game options prices and the Mark-Up Interests. The options pricing model formed with the Mark-Up Interest, put-call parity, implied underlying price, and guessed volatility is used to solve the internal inconsistence caused by the implied volatility smiles. Therefore, the justness of the options market prices could be estimated with the Mark-Up Interests under different scenarios. The result will help the risk manager to do market making and hedging. The empirical results based on the Options on Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Stock Index (TXO) in this paper are as follows: The trading days to expiry, moneyness, and guessed volatility are the factors affecting the Mark-Up Interests. The second part of this thesis extends the research on Schonbucher ( 2000, 2003, 2004 ), Brigo ( 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006 ), Brigo & Mercurio ( 2006 )、Brigo & Morini ( 2005 ), Jamshidian ( 2004 ) and Wu ( 2006 ). We use the fee leg of the single tenor forward credit default swap rate ( tenor CDS rate ) as numeraire. Under the lognormal distribution assumption on the tenor CDS rate, we decompose a credit default swap option into the sum of tenor CDS options. The result can be used by investment banks to manage credit risk when their derivative book consists of different start-date and end-date CDS options. In addition, our result shows that CDS can be used to hedge against the risk of CDS options. The proposed method helps improve the techniques of hedging and managing credit risk.

界限選擇權雖屬新奇選擇權的一種，但在國外卻已是交易頻繁的商品，而在國內則尚未有此一商品的交易發生。因此，為了能讓國內投資人與券商更了解此一商品，本研究便以界限選擇權為對象，針對其訂價與避險兩大主題進行研究，期能獲至有貢獻之結論。 在訂價方面，以二項評價模型對界限選擇權進行評價時，會產生鋸齒狀的收歛情況，對於精確評價界限選擇權造成極大的困擾。本研究對此問題提供一修正二項評價模型的方法，可以有效地消除評價時收歛不佳的現象。 在避險方面，本研究使用靜態避險法對其進行避險，並結合修正後之二項評價模型以建構在靜態避險法下所需之複製投資組合，此乃以往所未有之研究。在本文中所獲至之結果顯示，使用靜態避險法對界限選擇權進行避險所達成之避險效率實為在動態避險下所不能及；同時，隨著時間間隔的縮小，避險效率會隨之提高。此外，使用修正後之二項評價模型所建構之複製投資組合較以未修正之二項評價模型所建構之複製投資組合，在避險效率上會有較佳之表現。 第一章 緒論 1 第一節 研究背景 .1 第二節 研究動機與目的 1 第三節 研究架構與流程 2 第二章 界限選擇權之簡介及其應用 5 第一節 界限選擇權之簡介 5 第二節 界限選擇權之應用 7 第三章 文獻探討 14 第一節 選擇權訂價模式 14 第二節 界限選擇權之訂價 19 第三節 界限選擇權之避險 22 第四章 界限選擇權之訂價分析 23 第一節 二項評價模型之訂價法 23 第二節 對二項評價模型之修正 29 第三節 避險係數之分析 36 第五章 界限選擇權之避險分析 39 第一節 靜態避險法之介紹 39 第二節 避險效率之分析 43 第六章 結論與建議 62 第一節 結論 62 第二節 研究限制 63 第三節 後續研究建議 63 參考文獻 65 附錄：MATLAB程式 67 / Barrier option is one of those exotic options, yet it has been frequently traded in the foreign options markets. In Taiwan, this commodity is still new to most of us. Consequently, for a better understand and probably the issuance of this commodity, this research focuses on the pricing and hedging of barrier options, hoping that the research can obtain contributive conclusions. On pricing, when using CRR model as a pricing method for barrier options, there exists a situation which the convergence of the pricing is saw-toothed, contributing to the imprecise pricing results. This study provides a modification for the CRR model that can mitigate the saw-toothed convergence very effectively. On hedging, this study uses static hedge as a hedging measure, combining with the modified CRR model, which has very been studied before. The results of this study tell that, using static hedge can reach a very accurate hedging results, which is not attainable using dynamic hedge. Also, the more the time spacing shrinks, the more exact the hedge is. Finally, using modified CRR model as a basis producing replicating portfolio under static hedge can have a better performance in hedging than that of using unmodified CRR model.

匯率連動固定期利率交換商品可做為國外利率交換的輔助工具以提高交換利差的利潤或鎖住現行利差以管理利率風險。以往對匯率連動固定期利率交換商品的評價通常是利用蒙地卡羅模擬法來模擬進行,但這樣的評價方式通常較耗時。本文應用國外遠期交換利率近似於國外遠期LIBOR利率之線性組合的特徵來設定BGM模型下國外遠期交換利率的近似動態過程。基於國外遠期交換利率的近似動態，我們推導出三因子BGM模型下評價匯率連動固定期利率交換利差選擇權及匯率連動固定期利率交換輪棘選擇權的無套利解析公式。數值分析的結果顯示不同履約價下蒙地卡羅模擬法估計值的標準差都很小，表示其變異不大，所以用蒙地卡羅模擬法作為指標方法來比較近似公式解法計算之數值與它的差異應是可以接受的。最後，數值分析的結果亦顯示上述兩種商品在不同履約價下無套利解析公式解法對應蒙地卡羅模擬法的相對誤差都很小且無套利解析公式解法之計算效率亦優於蒙地卡羅模擬法，所以我們建議可在實務上應用近似公式解法來評價匯率連動固定期利率交換利差選擇權及匯率連動固定期利率交換輪棘選擇權兩種商品。

我國勞工退休金新制自2005年7月1日開始實施，由過去的確定給付制改為具有確定提撥特色的「個人帳戶制」。對於勞工而言，確定提撥制和過去確定給付制不同之處在於承擔退休金投資風險的責任將由雇主轉由個人承擔。如何透過退休機制的設計以降低退休金的投資風險是近年來的重要議題，因此本文主要從個人偏好與風險的觀點探討保證投資收益率制度與制度轉換選擇權等兩個降低確定提撥制投資風險的重要配套措施。 在本論文的第一篇研究中發現，資產配置與國際投資對保證成本的影響頗大，在個人可選擇資產配置的情況下，高投資風險的資產選擇將造成政府未來龐大的或有負債。為了解決政府保證成本過高造成代內與代間的財富移轉，本文從使用者付費與個人效用的觀點探討保證投資收益率制度的設計，發現藉由設立保證投資收益上限可提升風險趨避者、損失趨避者與後悔趨避者等偏好下的預期效用，且能降低個人管理下方風險所需的提撥成本與退休計畫參加者所需繳交的保證費用，故建議政府可將投資收益率上限納入保證投資收益率制度，供退休計畫參加者選擇合於本身偏好的保證收益率上限。 在近來許多國家的公、民營退休體系由過去以確定給付制改為確定提撥制，為了降低在確定提撥制下的退休金投資風險，在美國的佛羅里達州之公務人員退休體系中，存在著可供個人選擇是否轉換到確定給付制的機制。在我國勞退新制中除了從過去的確定給付制改為確定提撥制外，亦輔以「年金保險制」供勞工選擇與轉換，若年金保險制具有確定給付制的特徵，則勞工等於是擁有一個從確定提撥轉換轉到確定給付制的選擇權，因此制度選擇權的探討對我國而言亦是相當地重要。在本論文的第二篇研究中發現，當風險趨避程度越高則轉換至確定給付制的機率越高，轉換到確定給付制的高峰期會出現在開始工作的初期與屆臨退休之際等兩段期間。隨著工作期間的延長，個人轉換到確定給付制的機率越低，但仍可有效地提升退休金的所得替代率與達到降低退休金下方風險的效果，在加入退休制度初期不得轉換的限制之後，會降低轉換到確定給付制的機率。 / The Labor Retirement Pension Act enacted in 2005 introduced defined contribution (DC) pension plan for substituting the traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plan. In the defined contribution pension plan, the investment risk is transferred to the participants. However, the design of rate of return guarantee makes the investment risk less severe for participants. In the first essay, we find that the asset allocation and foreign investment have large impact on the guarantee cost: the high risky investment may result in large potential liability of the government in the future if participants have the investment portfolio choice. This study develops a framework to analyze design of rate of return guarantee from the financial engineering and user paid principle view. We find that the cap of investment return guarantee not only increases the expected utility of risk aversion, loss aversion and regret aversion, but also decreases the contribution cost to participant associated with managing the downside risk. Around the world, the defined contribution (DC) plans have been the primary trend of pension reform in the both public and private sector. In an attempt to decrease the investment risk associated with DC plan, the public employees are provided with an option to buy back DB plan in the Florida State of U.S.A. In the second essay, we find that the higher level of risk aversion is, the higher probability to buy back DB plan is. During the employee’s early years of service and as the employees near retirement, the probability to exercise the option is the highest. The probability to exercise the option is decreasing with the years of service being increasing; the option also increase the pension replacement rate as well as decrease the downside risk of pension. The probability to exercise the option is lower, when the option to buy back the DB plan is prohibited during the employee’s early years of service.

金融海嘯提供我們一個深刻的教訓，因為危機前信貸過度增長伴隨著大量的系統風險，最後導致景氣反轉時銀行業龐大損失。而這些損失將動搖整個金融體系，並引發了一連串的惡性循環(Basel Committee on Banking Supervision , BCBS ,2010a, 2010b)；若依循過往個別審慎監理((Microprudential regulation)原則，將無法察覺背後隱藏的系統風險。因此目前趨勢是將以個別(Micro)與總體審慎監理原則(macro)並重，針對能夠影響整體市場金融穩定風險來源而詳加監管，同時透過規範與監理措施適度的降低系統風險，最終達到金融穩定的目的。IMF、BIS以及FSB(2009)針對G20制定的金融機構、市場與工具的指導文件(Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments)中，認為有效控制系統風險是現階段政策監理最重要的主軸之一。所謂系統風險是指能影響金融機構所持有的部位以及對於實體經濟存在嚴重負面影響的風險來源；此總體風險將存在負外部性而非個別審慎監理的風險因子。 因此本文由兩篇宏觀審慎監管框架文章所構成的研究，分別針對市場流動性風險和信用風險的因子。透過非流動性賣權與逆景氣資本緩衝（CCB）買權來分析和評價兩種新的監管框架。第一篇論文的主要概念是討論市場流動性風險因子，雖然當前銀行監管的重點是資金流動性風險，如新巴塞爾協議三 (Basel III)的流動性風險覆蓋率（LCR）和淨穩定資金比率（NSFR），但金融機構實際上也同時面臨資金和市場流動性之間的高度順週期效應，導致流動性螺旋，並威脅到金融穩定。因此，本文提出一個市場流動性，系統性風險和宏觀審慎監理分析框架來填補這一空白。 與Drehmann和Juselius（2013B）的實證研究結果比較，我們發現利用6個月歷史波動度建構的非流動性選擇權是最有效的提前預警指標（EWIS），且符合穩定政策結構和最小監管成本。此外在三個子樣本和嚴重危機時期亦能同樣保持預警的穩健性。因此如果金融機構能透過預警減少金融機構投資種類、行業、交易對手與大額暴險的集中度時，將可以由危機發生後被動式轉變成危機發生前主動式的風險管理，將符合總體審慎監理定義：能影響所有而非單一的金融機構，以及有效控制破壞總體市場產生的系統風險。 在第二篇文章中，我們專注於信用風險監管框架的避險，即Basel III的逆景氣資本緩衝(CCB)。這個新穎的監理視角將鼓勵銀行在危機前的信貸繁榮時期增加資本緩衝，而非在危機後接受援助或者增加昂貴的資本。據美國聯邦存款保險公司（FDIC）統計，2014年第1季全美的存款機構風險加權資產為10.27兆美金；如果最高的逆景氣資本緩衝被應用到這些銀行，將有2570億美金的資本不得不額外注資。因此本文設計了一個新的買權來符合CCB的監管框架，建立提前資本防禦措施來減輕系統性風險和整體銀行業不穩定。首先發現這款買權將能在順境時注入資本，即更低的潛在違約風險與信貸寬鬆時期，進而抵禦未來發生的金融危機。我們的建議也符合Basel III的目標，在危機前2至5年協助銀行取得資本保護。最重要的是，CCB買權可以透過提前取得資本形成一個“減震器”，舒緩隨後而來經濟衰退的壓力達到降低銀行資本順週期性目標；此外還提供了一個對於銀行過度冒險行為的抗衡力量，成為一個“自動穩定器”來達到宏觀審慎監理目標。 / Financial tsunami offered a profound lesson as the pre-crisis excessive credit growth was accompanied by huge systemic risks that ultimately led to the reversal of economy and huge losses of the banking sector. Such losses will shake the entire financial system and trigger a series of vicious cycles (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, BCBS, 2010a , 2010b ); the hidden systemic risk may not be observed if we follow the previous principles of micro prudential regulation. The guidance formulated by G20 to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments (IMF, BIS, and FSB, 2009) analyzes that the main issue of prior micro prudential regulation is that every financial institution’s incentive is to manage its own return-risk tradeoff but not necessarily manage the stability for the financial system as a whole. Consequently, the macroprudential regulation focusing on shocks originating outside the financial system can control the negative externalities of systemic risk rather than micro prudential regulation. This dissertation consists of two essays on the macro prudential framework of market liquidity risk and credit risk factor. We introduce, analyze, and value two new regulation frameworks via an illiquidity put option and a CCB call option respectively. The main concept of first essay is to discuss the macro prudential framework of market liquidity risk factor. Although the current banking regulation focuses on systemic funding liquidity risk such as Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) of Basel III, financial institutions would actually have highly procyclical effects between funding and market liquidity at the same time, leading to liquidity spirals and threatening to financial stability. We therefore propose a market liquidity, systemic risk and macroregulation analysis framework in Taiwan's capital market to fill this gap. Comparison with the Drehmann and Juselius' empirical study (2013b), we find that illiquidity options by using 6-month historical volatility and forecasting short-term stock declines are effective early warning indicators (EWIs) having most stable policy structures and minimal regulation costs. Applying AUC macroregulation criteria, we show this illiquidity measure is also maintained fairly robustness in different intervals, e.g. during three sub-samples and serious crisis periods. If financial institutions can diversify the concentration of portfolios varieties, industries, and counterparty before crises by using EWIs, the passive risk taking can be converted into the active risk management. It is necessary to prepare the market liquidity and macroregulation framework in advance. In the second essay, we focus the hedging product for credit risk factors, i.e. countercyclical capital buffer (CCB). This purpose of countercyclical capital buffer standards is to encourage banks to increase capital buffers in credit good times that can be used in the future stress. According to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the risk-weighted assets of U.S. depository institutions were $10.27trillion dollars in 2014:Q1. If the maximum CCB is applied to these banks, an additional US$257 billion of equity capital will have to be raised. Hence, we design a new option to establish the capital defenses meeting CCB framework and then mitigating systemic risk and banking instability in advance. We show this product injects capital in good times i.e., lower credit risk and more credit expansion, to weather the future financial crisis. Our proposal also complies with the goal of Basel III to obtain capital in 2 to 5 years prior to crises. Most importantly, the CCB option can provide protection with additional capital to act as a "shock absorber" reducing a procyclicality problem in the subsequent downturn. Besides, this type of option also offers a countervailing force to excessive risk-taking behaviors to act as an "automatic stabilizer" for reaching macroprudential goals.