This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally. It provides a critical microstructure analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and also examines the theoretical and related market design issues affecting emissions...

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory. Further, it shows how to develop the closed form formulas of the bid and ask prices of European options by using...

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....

Market Fragmentation and Market Quality: The European Experience -- Pre-trade Transparency and the Information Content of the Limit Order Book -- Trading Mechanisms in Financial Markets: A Comparison Between Auction and Dealership Markets -- News Trader, Liquidity and Transaction Cost -- What...

Seit Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends ist die Zahl der Auflösungen von Aktienfonds sprunghaft angestiegen. Für Anleger wie für Fondsgesellschaften ist von hohem Interesse, welche Faktoren die Auflösung von Fonds maßgeblich beeinflussen. Björn Zollenkop untersucht fonds-, fondsgesellschafts-...

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally. It provides a critical microstructure analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and also examines the theoretical and related market design issues affecting emissions...

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, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...

This book introduces the “strike of default” (SOD) benchmark concept. The author determines the SOD through cross-sectional pricing between the credit market and the option market, considering the same underlying. The idea of the SOD is to combine the implied probability of default from both...

This book introduces to basic and advanced methods for credit risk management. It covers classical debt instruments and modern financial markets products. The author describes not only standard rating and scoring methods like Classification Trees or Logistic Regression, but also less known...