Zum 1. Januar 2009 traten in Deutschland die Regelungen über die so genannte Abgeltungsteuer in Kraft. Sie betreffen in erster Linie private Kapitaleinkünfte. Bereits ein Jahr zuvor wurden Regelungen über die so genannte Thesaurierungsbegünstigung von Gewinneinkünften wirksam. Beide...

Zum 1. Januar 2009 traten in Deutschland die Regelungen über die so genannte Abgeltungsteuer in Kraft. Sie betreffen in erster Linie private Kapitaleinkünfte. Bereits ein Jahr zuvor wurden Regelungen über die so genannte Thesaurierungsbegünstigung von Gewinneinkünften wirksam. Beide...

Deviations of policy interest rates from the levels implied by the Taylor rule have been persistent before the financial crisis and increased especially after the turn of the century. Compared to the Taylor benchmark, policy rates were often too low. This paper provides evidence that both...

This article explores whether common technical trading strategies used in equity markets can be employed profitably in the markets for WTI and Brent crude oil. The strategies tested are Bollinger Bands, based on a mean-reverting hedge portfolio of WTI and Brent. The trading systems are tested...

In the wind power industry, wind speed forecasts are obtained and transformed into wind power forecasts. The Mycielski algorithm has proven to be an accurate predictor for wind speed in short-term scenarios. Moreover, Mycielski has the capability of forecasting wind power directly, instead of...

Czarnitzki and Stadtmann (2005) measure the interdependence of demand for investment advice (approximated by sales of investor magazines) and stock prices. They find strong evidence that confirms the presence of the disposition effect, i.e. the empirical observation that investors sell winners...

We estimate Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts for several Eurozone countries. We find a stable pattern for all countries: The relationship between business-cycle fluctuations and the unemployment rate is the strongest for the youngest cohort and gets smaller for the elderly cohorts.