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...

Investment and all other economic actions depend on 'subjective' expectations. The problem is how to construct a theory of expectations that assumes people interpret their situations in unpredictable ways. Building on the evolutionary economics of F.A.Hayek, Koppl gives us such a theory. This...

“It is an excellent read book and provides readers with some truly interesting insights into the dynamics of OIC markets. A comprehensive and rigorous study. Highly recommended for both academics and professionals.” - Dr Syed Aun R. Rizvi, (Lahore University of Management Sciences,) Pakistan...

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...

Introduction -- Random Walk Characteristics of Stock Returns -- Nonlinear Dependence in Stock returns -- Mean Reverting Tendency in Stock Returns -- Long Memory in Stock Returns: Theory and Evidence.-Long Memory in Stock Market Volatility -- Summary and Conclusion.

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...

Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets...

The emphasis of this book is on understanding special characteristics of the financial systems of emerging markets, where the existence of market imperfections such as asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard can cause financial market failures. Considering the Thai stock...