Interest in the Latin American emerging markets (LAEM) has increased considerably in recent years. It is often claimed that they have to pay a price for being too different from developed markets, i.e. for having weak institutions, failed macroeconomic programs, political instability, poor...

The 12 articles in this second of two parts condense recent advances on investment vehicles, performance measurement and evaluation, and risk management into a coherent springboard for future research. Written by world leaders in asset pricing research, they present scholarship about the 2008...

The stock market globalization process has produced historic changes in the structure of stock markets, the effects of which are evident throughout the world. Despite these transformations, there are relatively few sources examining the connections between the globalization process currently...

Kapitalmärkte werden oft als "Orte periodisch wiederkehrenden Irrsinns" beschrieben. Dieser kleine Band hilft Laien, den Irrsinn zu verstehen: Er erklärt, was Kapitalmärkte sind, was sie leisten, wie sie organisiert sind, wer die wichtigsten Spieler sind, welche Produkte gehandelt werden und...

Gernot Hinterleitner und Philipp Hornung verbinden über ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Experiment zwei Gebiete der Finanzmarktforschung. Zuerst wird die Marktqualität unterschiedlicher Handelsformen analysiert, anschließend wird der Insiderhandel innerhalb dieser Marktformen betrachtet....