A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...

A large part of the current debate on US stock price behaviorconcentrates on the question of whether stock prices are driven byfundamentals or by non-fundamental factors(...)

[...]In this study, we use recent historical evidence toexplore one dimension of the broad relationship betweenmarket returns and mutual fund flows: the effect of shorttermmarket returns on mutual fund flows. Research onthis issue has already confirmed high correlations betweenmarket returns and...

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

This paper proposes a novel methodology, based on the Common Principal Component analysis, allowing one to estimate the factors driving the term structure of interest rates, in the presence of time-varying covariance structure.

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We propose a new family of probability densities that can be used as substitutes and have the property of...

In this study, we develop a technique for estimating a firm’s expected cost of equity capital derivedfrom analyst consensus forecasts and stock prices. Building on the work of Gebhardt/Lee/-Swaminathan (2001) and Easton/Taylor/Shroff/Sougiannis (2002), our approach allows dailyestimation, using...

Das multivariate Analyseverfahren der Kausalanalyse gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung für die Untersuchung komplexer betriebswirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge. Neben dem im deutschsprachigen Raum etablierten Verfahren der Kovarianzstrukturanalyse zur Schätzung von Kausalmodellen wird im...

Diskrete Copula Modelle bilden die Abh¨angigkeiten zwischen multiplen kategorialenResponses sowie die Einfl¨usse von Kovariablen auf die jeweiligen Responsesab. In einer Simulationsstudie soll das Verhalten von Sch¨atzern diskreter CopulaModelle bei unterschiedlichen Strukturen der...