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...

Psychologie und Börse -- Psychoanalyse und Börse -- Achtung: Psychofallen! -- Aktien und Kurse -- Psychologie und Kursschwankungen -- Kleine Typologie der Anleger -- Die Risikobereitschaft des Anlegers -- Geld und Glück -- Börsenregeln -- Gesellschaftliche Einflüsse und Veränderungen.

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...

The past decade has been a time of drastic developments, both in financial markets and in related academic research. Among the most striking developments are the expanded stockholder base, the increased popularity of mutual funds among households, and the growing importance of private pension...

Es ist nicht immer ganz einfach, die sehr komplexe Struktur eines Finanzmarkts zu verstehen. Albert Einstein hat einmal gesagt, man solle die Dinge so einfach darstellen wie möglich - nur nicht noch einfacher. Mit diesem Anspruch greift Klaus Schredelseker zentrale Fragen eines vernünftigen...

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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Trends in Indian Stock Market: Scope for designing Profitable Trading Rule? -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Trends and Latent Structure in Indian stock market -- 2.3. Detection of Structural Break in volatility -- 2.4. Identifying Trends in Indian Stock Market:...

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment, subjects were given the opportunity to trade in a...

This compelling book examines the price-based revolution in investing, showing how research over recent decades has reinvented technical analysis. The authors discuss the major groups of price-based strategies, considering their theoretical motivation, individual and combined implementation, and...

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...