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Cash holdings of German open-end equity funds: Does ownership matter?

Dötz, Niko; Weth, Mark - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

In the light of the recent financial crisis, the discussion on the nature of runs and on the stabilizing role of liquidity holdings has intensified. This paper explores the cash management conducted by German open-end equity funds for the period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures...

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Investment Behaviour of German Equity Fund Managers

Arnswald, Torsten - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2001

In order to shed light on the "black box" of institutional equity investing in a systematic manner, I conducted a broadly based questionnaire which received a large response from German mutual fund companies. The survey asked fund managers for their basic views and practices and for insights...

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The dark and the bright side of liquidity risks: evidence from open-end real estate funds in Germany

Fecht, Falko; Wedow, Michael - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

We use a unique and comprehensive data set on open-end real estate funds in Germany to study a liquidity crisis that hit this industry between 2005 and 2006. Since this industry is comparably unregulated our data set permits us to contrast competing explanations of liquidity crisis. We find that...

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Are there disadvantaged clienteles in mutual funds?

Jank, Stephan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

This paper studies the flow-performance relationship of three different investor groups in mutual funds: Households, financial corporations, and insurance companies and pension funds, establishing the following findings: Financial corporations have a strong tendency to chase past performance and...

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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? Evidence from individual investors' international asset allocation

Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...

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Home-field advantage or a matter of ambiguity aversion? Local bias among German individual investors

Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011

We analyze the effect of geographic proximity on individual investors' portfolio choice. Using a unique data set which covers the common stockholdings of private households at regional banks in Germany, we document strong and consistent overinvestment in geographically close companies. Our...

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Do banks diversify loan portfolios? A tentative answer based on individual bank loan portfolios

Kamp, Andreas; Pfingsten, Andreas; Porath, Daniel - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2005

this end we measure diversification for all German banks in the period from 1993 to 2002. As measures we use a broad set of … naive diversification across all industries or, alternatively, the economy's industry structure. With this framework our … in this context innovative group of distance measures. We find that different statistical measures of diversification may …

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Diversification and the banks' risk-return-characteristics: evidence from loan portfolios of German banks

Behr, Andreas; Kamp, Andreas; Memmel, Christoph; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

specialization. We use data from the Bundesbank's quarterly borrowers statistic to determine the degree of diversification in the …

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Firm-level evidence on international stock market comovement

Brooks, Robin; Del Negro, Marco - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2005

We explore the link between international stock market comovement and the degree to which firms operate globally. Using stock returns and balance sheet data for companies in 20 countries, we estimate a factor model that decomposes stock returns into global, country-specific and industry-specific...

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Do specialization benefits outweigh concentration risks in credit portfolios of German banks?

Böve, Rolf; Düllmann, Klaus; Pfingsten, Andreas - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

Lending specialization on certain industry sectors can have opposing effects on monitoring (including screening) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if monitoring abilities of German cooperative banks and savings...

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