The paper presents a comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteenGerman states (Länder) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of acapital market comparable in size to funds raised in the German fixed incomemarket for corporations. The quantitative analysis reveals that...

This paper questions traditional approaches for testing the day-of-the-week effect on stock returns. We propose an alternative approach based on the closure test principle introduced by Marcus, Peritz and Gabriel (1976), which has become very popular in Biometrics and Medical Statistics. We test...

Selbst in äußerst liquiden und straff organisierten Märkten wie beispielsweise in den USA kann beobachtet werden, daß der Emissionspreis neuemittierter Wertpapiere unter den ersten notierten Börsenkursen zu liegen kommt. Dieses als Underpricing bezeichnete Phänomen (positive Differenz...