The evaluation of the likelihood function of the stochastic conditional duration model requires to compute an integral that has the dimension of the sample size. We apply the efficient importance sampling method for computing this integral. We compare EIS-based ML estimation with QML estimation...

The first four conditional moments of the integrated variance implied by the GARCH diffusion process are derived analytically. Based on these moments and on a power series method an analytical approximation formula to price European options under the GARCH diffusion model is obtained. Monte...

We aim to compare financial technical analysis techniques to strategies which depend on a mathematical model. In this paper, we consider the moving average indicator and an investor using a risky asset whose instantaneous rate of return changes at an unknown random time. We construct...

Previous research has shown that frictions might have a significant impact on the value of a contingent claim, as discussed, for example, in Karatzas & Kou (1996)and Collin-Dufresne & Hugonnier (2002). We consider two types of frictions particularly important: frictions related to trading, such...

Recent studies have found unmeasured intangible capital to be large and important. In this paper we observe that by nature intangible capital is also very different from physical capital. We find it plausible to argue that the accumulation process for intangible capital differs significantly...

Which strategies will survive in the long run and which will diminish? These are important questions in evolutionary finance. Up to now we only know answers in the case of stationary dividends. But the evolutionary perspective to the financial market is considering very long time horizons. In...

Mit der vorliegenden Analyse wurde die Reaktion des Schweizer Finanzmarktes auf die Zertifizierung von Unternehmen nach der ISO 14001 untersucht...

Die analytisch korrekte Bestimmung von DCF-Unternehmens- und Projektwerten ist nicht trivial...

Das M&A-Geschehen ist derzeit durch neue Rekordvolumen geprägt. Ob Firmen übernommen, quasifusioniert oder echt verschmolzen, ob ganze Aktienpakete verkauft oder Asset Deals durchgeführt werden, stets spielt die Bewertung der Zielobjekte eine zentrale Rolle...