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The Benefits of Creating an Integrated EU Market for Investment Funds
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2002
The fast growing EU market for investment funds is still characterised by a continuing relevance of national borders. This papers assesses this market?s degree of integration, the potential benefits from more integration and the obstacles to cross-border sales of funds. The analysis shows that...
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Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge: Private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich
Westerheide, Peter - 2001
Ansparen in Investmentfonds mit gleicher durchschnittlicher Renditeerwartung vor Kosten, wie sie private Rentenversicherungen … bieten, und den hier unterstellten Kosten für aktienorientierte Investmentfonds aus Kostensicht nicht immer effizient ist …. Sofern aktienorientierte Investmentfonds jedoch im langfristigen Durchschnitt höhere Renditen vor Kosten erwirtschaften …
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298128
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Long-term benefits from investing in international real estate
Schindler, Felix - 2009
This paper analyses long- and short-term co-movements between 14 international real estate stock markets based on bivariate testing for cointegration and correlation analysis. The results indicate that there exist strong long-term relationships within economic and geographical regions, but less...
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Linkages between international securitized real estate markets: Further evidence from time-varying and stochastic cointegration
Schindler, Felix; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010
This paper analyzes long-run co-movements between international real estate stock markets and between regions based on bivariate and multivariate tests for cointegration. While the topic has been analyzed in previous studies such as Gallo and Zhang (2009) and Yunus (2009) among others, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301690
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The rat race of capital structure research for REITs and REOCs: Two spotlights on leverage
Hohenstatt, Ralf; Steininger, Bertram - 2011
This paper presents a dynamic multi-equation model based on a balance sheet identity, where technical aspects of capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment. Additionally, leverage dynamics are interpreted in their role for...
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What Determines the ZEW Indicator?
Hüfner, Felix P.; Lahl, David - 2003
This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Westerheide, Peter - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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Integrated Financial Supervision in Germany
Schüler, Martin - 2004
With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …
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Centralizing Tendencies in the Public Sector in Germany
Stegarescu, Dan - 2005
This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … of Germany. …
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