Privates Beteiligungskapital hat bis zur globalen Wirtschaftskrise in 2008 kontinuierlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dagegen ist der Kenntnisstand über den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg dieser Anlageklasse bisher noch unbefriedigend. Christoph Dänzer entwickelt eine Konzeption zur Performancemessung,...

Frank Ecker examines the performance of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) from 1980 to 2002. He links positive and negative abnormal returns to the deviation of the realized information risk from the expected information risk. The author proposes effective measures for a long-term profitable...

This book explores the issue of private sector over-indebtedness following the recent financial crisis. It addresses the various challenges for policymakers, investors and economic agents affected by applied remedial policies as the private non-financial sector in Europe continues to face...

This book presents empirical research that addresses the latest issues and innovative products in Islamic banking and finance around the world. Chapters from expert contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the various issues in stock markets, an overview of takaful, a roadmap for...

This book underscores the complexity of the equity markets, the challenges they face, and the fact that they are still a work in process. Three interacting forces drive market change: competition, technology change, and regulatory change. The markets have one major objective in particular to...

Philip Ernstberger analyses in his three essays different topics of financial pathologies. Thereby, changes in fundamentals as well as information are considered as the driving force for the behavior of speculators and investors. The first essay deals with currency crises, in which the central...

This volume considers trading strategies in illiquid markets from three perspectives. The first chapter presents an innovative approach to investigate the interactions between the trading activities of a large investor, the stock price, and liquidity. The framework generalizes existing models by...

Im Zusammenhang mit den Finanzmarktturbulenzen rückt die Bedeutung des Liquiditätsrisikos und eines effizienten Liquiditätsrisikomanagements immer mehr in den Vordergrund. Dabei soll die Stabilität der einzelnen Banken und des gesamten Finanzsystems erreicht werden. Zudem hat die Finanzkrise...

Jaroslaw Morawski offers a practicable and theoretically well-founded solution to the problems encountered when investing in illiquid assets and develops a model of the liquidation process for this category of investments. The result is a coherent investment decision framework designed...