Abstract We investigate whether small business clients could use revocable credit lines, firstly, in their cash management and, secondly, as a funding source. Since the medium-size bank that provided our unique sample has the right to call these lines and charges considerably high rates for...

We used a recursive modeling approach to study whether investors, in real time could, have used information on the comovement of stock markets to forecast stock returns in European stock markets for high-technology firms. We analyzed weekly data on returns in the Neuer Markt, the Nouveau...

The paper reports on studies of return predictability of stock indexes of blue-chip firms and high-technology firms in Germany, France and the UK during the second half of the 1990s. Return predictability was measured in terms of first-order autocorrelation coefficients, and evidence was found...

Using a European panel data set, this paper presents evidence that fund providers' investment preferences matter for venture capital investment characteristics. For example, pension funds more often prefer investments in firms at an early development stage than non-financial corporations and banks.

This article investigates effects of direct and indirect product competition on overpricing of discount certificates in Germany. The results indicate that whereas indirect competition reduces overpricing, certificates with direct competitors are more overpriced at their issuance than...