This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing...

This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread believe that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the...

Fabian Schnell develops a model indicating that by keeping real interest rates too low, monetary policy can distort the allocation of resources across firms and potentially delay economic recovery after a recession. This is a new channel of monetary policy that is especially relevant in view of...

The Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics provides, in three volumes and over 100 chapters, a comprehensive overview of the primary methodologies in econometrics and statistics as applied to financial research. Including overviews of key concepts by the editors and in-depth...

This is the first book to report the details of the current status of interfirm relationships in Japan. Based on a unique data set of firms, the authors describe the characteristics of interfirm transactions in a manner unprecedented in the literature. Special emphasis is placed on the nature of...

Die Preise, zu denen Aktienindexoptionen an den internationalen Terminbörsen gehandelt werden, weichen in der Regel systematisch von den Implikationen des von Black, Scholes und Merton entwickelten Standartmodells der Optionsbewertung ab. Zur Erklärung dieses als "Smile-Effekt" bekannten...

Untersuchungsgegenstand und Arbeitsgang -- Primäre Abfindungsangebote und Börsenkurs bei Going Private-Transaktionen in Deutschland -- Going Private-Transaktionen am deutschen Kapitalmarkt — Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme -- Motive für den Rückzug von der Börse — Ergebnisse einer...

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