In this article we seek to understand whether national parties have an impact on citizens’ EU support by publicly cueing Europe as a risk to or as an opportunity for the economy or identity. In order to answer this question, we have conducted a cross-country survey experiment (covering...

This article demonstrates that public attitudes towards EU enlargement are strongly affected by exposure to the mass media. It reveals `priming' effects by showing that media exposure affects the standards by which individuals evaluate the accession of potential candidate countries. To gain a...

Abstract In diesem Beitrag wird empirisch untersucht, ob in Deutschland wie in den USA das Phänomen zu beobachten ist, daß Aktien mit niedriger Marktkapitalisierung im Schnitt höhere Renditen erzielen als das Sharpe/Lintner-Modell prognostiziert, Aktien mit hoher Marktkapitalisierung...

We present an analysis of the VaR forecasts and the P&L series of all 12 German banks that used internal models for regulatory purposes throughout the period from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2004. One task of a supervisor is to estimate the 'recalibration factor', i.e. by how much a bank...