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250 Analysten, 1 Portfolio? : eine ökonometrische Analyse von Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung eines Vermögensportfolios zur Altersvorsorge
Dornau, Robert; Szczesny, Andrea - 1999
Im Oktober 1998 befragte das ZEW rund 250 Finanzexperten aus Banken, Versicherungen, Kapitalanlagegesellschaften und großen Industrieunternehmen nach ihren Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung eines Vermögensportfolios zur Altersvorsorge. Dieses Papier untersucht in einem ersten Schritt, ob in...
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The behaviour of noise traders : empirical evidence on purchases of business magazines
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 2000
According to the prospect theory financial investors tend to sell winners too early and ride losers too long. Therefore, demand for financial advise should be high in a bull market and low in a bear market. Thus, we test the hypothesis whether the demand for business magazines is somehow related...
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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity … involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits … will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited. The paper first discusses these issues theoretically and then …
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Estimating consumer damages in cartel cases
Laitenberger, Ulrich; Smuda, Florian - 2013
We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was active between 2002 and 2005 in eight European countries. Applying before-and-after and difference-in-differences estimations we find average overcharges between 6.7 and 6.9 percent...
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Numeracy and the quality of on-the-job decisions : evidence from loan officers
Brown, Martin; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Spycher, Thomas - 2017
We examine how the numeracy level of employees influences the quality of their on-the-job decisions. Based on an administrative dataset of a retail bank we relate the performance of loan officers in a standardized math test to the accuracy of their credit assessments of small business borrowers....
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Testing the predictability and efficiency of securitized real estate markets
Schindler, Felix; Rottke, Nico; Füss, Roland - 2009
This paper conducts tests of the random walk hypothesis and market efficiency for 14 national public real estate markets. Random walk properties of equity prices influence the return dynamics and determine the trading strategies of investors. To examine the stochastic properties of local real...
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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...
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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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International diversification with securitized real estate and the veiling glare from currency risk
Kroencke, Tim-Alexander; Schindler, Felix - 2011
This paper analyzes diversification benefits from international securitized real estate in a mixed-asset context. We apply regression-based mean-variance efficiency tests, conditional on currency-unhedged and fully hedged portfolios to account for foreign exchange risk exposure. From the...
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An assessment of the relationship between public real estate markets and stock markets at the local, regional, and global levels
Liow, Kim Hiang; Schindler, Felix - 2011
The primary contribution of this study is to assess whether public real estate markets and stock markets are linked at the local, regional, and global levels, and to assess the evolution of their dynamic relationship and gradual integration during the last two decades. For individual pairs of...
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