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The efficient market hypothesis implies that asset prices cannot be cointegrated. On the other hand, arbitrage processes prevent prices of fundamentally related assets from drifting far away. An attractive model that reconciles these two conflicting facts is the nonlinear error correction...
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This paper presents an analysis of tax clientele effects in the German government bond market from the viewpoint of private investors. The methods developed here allow the identification of bonds that are over-valued from the viewpoint of a certain tax class, the estimation of tax-specific term...
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a comparable data set for Germany for the time period 1968-1990. We analyze this data set in order to identify a "best … market ; time series of cross-sectional data …
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The so-called 'Monday effect ' has been found for various stock markets of the world. The empirical finding that Monday … against time varying means and correlation of return data in parametric models and to obtain confidence bands for … nonparametric estimates. It is shown that time dependence is an important feature describing the dynamics of German stock market …
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additional noise nt. We consider the situation which the parameters w and a might also depend on the "time" t, and we study the … adaptive method of estimation which does not use any information about time homogeneity of the obscured process. We apply this …
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The Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) distribution recently introduced by Barndorff-Nielsen (1997) is a promising alternative for modelling financial data exhibiting skewness and fat tails. In this paper we explore the Bayesian estimation of NIG-parameters by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods. --...
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Germany and the United States are generally seen as the two competing systems of corporate governance. In search for a comparative welfare analysis of the financial systems, we are interested in (i) the aggregate value-added of corporate investments in the two countries and in (ii) the...
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We reexamine the expectations theory of the term structure focusing on the question how monetary policy actions indicated by changes in the very short rate affect long-term interest rates. Our main point is that the expectations hypothesis implies that very long rates should only react to...
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