The finance industry has grown. Financial markets have become more liquid. Information technology has improved. But have prices become more informative? Using stock and bond prices to forecast earnings, we find that the information content of market prices has not increased since 1960. The...

This paper examines whether large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) by the Federal Reserve influenced capital flows out of the United States and into emerging market economies (EMEs) and also analyzes the degree of pass-through from long-term U.S. government bond yields to long-term EME bond yields....

Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets...

The emphasis of this book is on understanding special characteristics of the financial systems of emerging markets, where the existence of market imperfections such as asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard can cause financial market failures. Considering the Thai stock...

Analysten wurde immer wieder vorgeworfen, Aktienkursprognosen systematisch verzerrt zu haben, um den Aktienhandel und das Investmentbankinggeschäft ihres Arbeit gebenden Kreditinstituts zu stimulieren und das Management der analysierten Unternehmen durch gefärbte Berichterstattung zufrieden zu...

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the dollar to continue as the...

The econometrics literature contains a variety of two-sided tests for unknown breakpoints in time-series models with one or more parameters. This paper derives an analogous one-sided test that takes into account the direction of the change for a single parameter. In particular, we propose a sup...

Statistische Eigenschaften von Handelsvolumina auf Aktienmärkten -- Theoretische Analysen zur Rolle des Handelsvolumens auf Aktienmärkten -- Kontemporärer Zusammenhang zwischen Aktienrenditen und Handelsvolumina -- Ereignisinduzierte Marktreaktionen: Preis- und Volumenseffekte am Beispiel von...

Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (MA) for stock prices and examines economic links between...