Geschlossene Fonds sind heutzutage ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Kapitalmarktes. Mehr und mehr haben sich für solche Fonds Handelsplattformen, sog. Zweitmärkte, herausgebildet, auf denen diese Beteiligung nach Erwerb gehandelt werden können. In diesem Artikel wird der...

As the importance of Chinese financial schemes in maritime business increases, and many issues on the ownership of the assets under the current Law remain obscured for international investors, this work argues that a streamlining to international practice is required; therefore, the ownership of...

Die erheblichen Turbulenzen an den Finanzmärkten, die Talfahrten von Aktienkursen sowie die Veränderung der relativen Attraktivität unterschiedlicher Anlageformen beeinflussen die Investitionsentscheidungen von Anlegern. In der Studie untersucht das HWWI die Rentabilität von Investitionen in...

Though seen primarily as lenders, depository banks face their own financing challenges arising from their role as intermediaries, their compliance with prudential regulation, the short-term stresses on their financial resources, and their changing position in a credit market populated with...

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...

We analyze the dynamics of banks’ regulatory capital ratios. Using monthly data of regulatory capital ratios for a subset of large German banks, we estimate the target level and the adjustment speed of the capital ratio for each bank separately. We find evidence that, first, there exists a...