Literature Review -- Return Predictability and the Real Economy -- Study Design and Data -- Empirical Part I - Testing for Predictability -- Forecasting Models -- Empirical Part II - Investment Strategies -- Conclusion

Foreword; Alejo José G. Sison.- List of tables -- List of figures -- About the editors -- About the authors.- Introduction; Wim Vandekerckhove, Jos Leys, Kristian Alm, Bert Scholtens, Silvana Signori and Henry Schäfer.- Chapter 1. Global finance and the role of responsible investors; Steve...

How should investors manage portfolios during crises? This question has surfaced since the 2008 global financial crisis, which is the latest of a series of shocks that began in the early 1970s. While crisis situations offer opportunities to outperform markets or to be engulfed by them, little...

Commodity markets present several challenges for quantitative modeling. These include high volatilities, small sample data sets, and physical, operational complexity. In addition, the set of traded products in commodity markets is more limited than in financial or equity markets, making value...

Einleitung, Motivation und Aufbau -- Institutionelle Grundlagen -- Überblick über die Literatur zu Aktienrückkäufen -- Datenbasis und Methodik der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Ergebnisse und Interpretation der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick --...

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...

Background and Empirical Predictions -- The Event Study Methodology -- Data, Full Sample and Variable Construction -- Difference in Abnormal Short Selling Activity Following Events of Large Positive Stock Price Changes -- Difference in Information Content of Extreme Short Selling Activity Events...

Introduction -- Money, Bonds and Economic Activity: Money, Bonds and Interest Rates -- Term Structure of Interest Rates -- The Credit Market and Economic Activity: Theories on Credit Market, Credit Risk and Economic Activity -- Empirical Tests on Credit Market and Economic Activity -- The Stock...

Im deutschen Strommarkt spielen Forwardkontrakte, über die ein wesentlicher Teil des gesamten Stromhandels abgewickelt wird, eine bedeutende Rolle. Indem zukünftige Stromlieferungen zu einem wesentlich früheren Zeitpunkt preislich fixiert werden, bieten diese Kontrakte die Möglichkeit, auf...