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...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate...

Strategische Entscheidungen und die Trennung von Eigentum und Kontrolle -- Reputation im Zusammenspiel von Kapitalgebern und Management -- Die Bewertung von M&A-Transaktionen -- Die amerikanische Banken- und Telekommunikationsindustrie -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Fazit und Schlussbemerkungen.

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...

Building upon Feltham and Ohlson models, this book examines positive loss-earnings within the context of the dot.com bubble during the boom years of the late 1990s bull market. The strong demand for equity financing captured the imagination of investors from Europe and U.S. like never before....

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...

This volume explores the changes in speculative trading in the United States to provide an understanding of the present economic crisis. Readers will find a unified mathematical theory of speculation and new chapters that discuss neoliberalism

Zugegeben ist das Studium von Bilanzen langweiliger als das Errechnen von Kurschancen mit Hilfe von Charts. Die Folge einer solchen Bequemlichkeit ist aber, dass elementare Fachbegriffe wie Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis, Cashflow oder Dividendenrendite breiten Kreisen von Anlageberatern unbekannt...

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

Kay Müller provides insight into the monitoring activities of private equity fund investors and explores their information requirements. He analyzes the reporting of private equity fund managers, reveals information gaps and provides guidance on how to improve investor relations. Dr. Kay...