Since the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991 expectations on the new European currency could possibly influence European interest rates. The focus of this paper is both on the theoretical and empirical analysis of the link between European Monetary Union (EMU) and German...

We study the impact of transparency on liquidity in OTC markets. We do so by providing an analysis of liquidity in a corporate bond market without trade transparency (Germany), and comparing our findings to a market with full posttrade disclosure (the U.S.). We employ a unique regulatory dataset...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht erstmals für den Anleihenhandel das Phänomen der Koexistenz mehrerer Handelswege. Wir beobachten im Sekundärhandel von Bundeswertpapieren über Jahrzehnte gewachsene, börsliche und außerbörsliche Organisationsstrukturen und werfen die Frage auf, ob diese...