We analyse questions of arbitrage in financial markets in which asset prices change in time as stationary stochastic processes. The main focus of the paper is on a model where the price vectors are independent and identically distributed. In the framework of this model, we find conditions that...

This paper examines the characteristics of firms that voluntarily provide interim financial reports. Based on a sample of Swiss companies, where semi-annual reports became mandatory in 1997, I document that before interim reports became mandatory, analyst coverage, i.e. analysts demand for...

Verfolgt man die internationale Wirtschaftspresse im ersten Quartal des Jahres 2000, rund zweieinhalb Jahre nach dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise in neun aufstrebenden Ländern Südostasiens, so häufen sich die Schalmeienklänge über eine rasche Erholung dieser Länder und über die Rückkehr des...