Asset bubbles and contagion have had a profound effect on the financial markets after the financial and sovereign debt crises. This book takes a quantitative approach to examining these phenomena and will appeal to practitioners who need to understand the repercussions of these events on trading...

Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency...

Preisbildung an Aktienmärkten -- Ausgewählte empirische Untersuchungen zur Erklärung von Information Mirages -- Information Mirages an experimentellen Wertpapierbörsen -- Methodik zur Analyse von Information Mirages an der Computerbörse CAT -- Spezifikation der Information Mirages an der...

Mit der zu verzeichnenden Internationalisierung der Kapitalmarktkommunikation geht eine Ausrichtung der Wirtschaftsprüfung an internationalen Prüfungsnormen einher. Jochen C. Theis geht der Frage nach, wie der individuelle Kapitalmarktteilnehmer Informationen verarbeitet, die ihm im Rahmen der...

The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy instruments. This book evaluates monetary policy instruments of the Eurosystem against a number of requirements. To do...

This book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets

The book investigates the contemporary functioning of financial institutions and monetary policies in order to assess their effects in different economic situations. It advances some proposals to improve their contribution towards a more stable and vigorous economy in the context of both...