The focus of this volume is on the development of new approaches for the market-conform valuation of newly issued derivatives. The first chapter presents a flexible approach to construct the binomial process of the underlying asset price by using a simultaneously backward and forward induction...

Statistische Eigenschaften von Handelsvolumina auf Aktienmärkten -- Theoretische Analysen zur Rolle des Handelsvolumens auf Aktienmärkten -- Kontemporärer Zusammenhang zwischen Aktienrenditen und Handelsvolumina -- Ereignisinduzierte Marktreaktionen: Preis- und Volumenseffekte am Beispiel von...

During recent years, an increasing number of corporations have decided to raise external capital via markets for hybrid securities. Hybrid securities share characteristics of common stock and straight debt and appear in different forms, such as convertible debt, mandatory convertibles or...

Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (MA) for stock prices and examines economic links between...

Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross-sectional variation in equity returns. He shows that an...

The finance literature looks at a number of factors to explain risk premia in corporate debt, such as liquidity effects, jump-to-default risk, and contagion risk. Stochastic recovery rates as a source of systematic risk have not received much attention so far, most likely due to the difficulties...

Strategische Entscheidungen und die Trennung von Eigentum und Kontrolle -- Reputation im Zusammenspiel von Kapitalgebern und Management -- Die Bewertung von M&A-Transaktionen -- Die amerikanische Banken- und Telekommunikationsindustrie -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Fazit und Schlussbemerkungen.