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...

1 The exchange industry: recent facts and the current scenario -- 2 The functions and economics of the exchange markets -- 3 Strategic patterns of exchanges -- 4 The surge of alternative players in the trading field -- 5 The governance of exchanges -- 6 Regulation on exchanges: new threats and...

Gernot Hinterleitner und Philipp Hornung verbinden über ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Experiment zwei Gebiete der Finanzmarktforschung. Zuerst wird die Marktqualität unterschiedlicher Handelsformen analysiert, anschließend wird der Insiderhandel innerhalb dieser Marktformen betrachtet....

Welche Wirkungen hat Insiderhandel auf die Wohlfahrt des Insiders und anderer Marktakteure sowie auf Marktpreise und -umsätze? Karin Niehoff entwickelt Modelle, die sich im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Literaturquellen auf Märkte mit Gesamtkursermittlung und fortlaufendem Handel beziehen....

Interest in the Latin American emerging markets (LAEM) has increased considerably in recent years. It is often claimed that they have to pay a price for being too different from developed markets, i.e. for having weak institutions, failed macroeconomic programs, political instability, poor...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors. Particular emphasis is placed on the verification of essential factors and features for asset returns through model search approaches, in...