Risikopolitik umfaßt die Gesamtheit aller Maßnahmen einer Bank, die darauf gerichtet sind, Risikoziele für die Bank zu formulieren und etwaige Gefahren einer Erfolgsminderung zu identifizieren, den Eintritt von Risiken zu verhindern oder die Auswirkungen evidenter Risiken abzuschwächen, um...

In this paper we analyze how a firm might protect quasi-rents in an environmentof imperfect capital markets, where switching lenders is costly to the borrower, andcontracts are incomplete. As switching costs make the firm vulnerable to ex-postexploitation, it may want to diversify lending in...

Expected returns can hardly be estimated from time series data. Therefore, many recent papers suggest investing in the global minimum variance portfolio. The weights of this portfolio are usually estimated by replacing the true return covariance matrix by its time series estimator. However,...

The authors determine, whether adding foreign assets to a domestic benchmark portfolio improves the risk-return profile from the perspective ofan investor located in a specific country. Here Hungary and Germany.

This paper investigates the commonality of liquidity in an open limit order bookmarket. We find that commonality in liquidity becomes stronger the deeper we lookinto the limit order book. While commonality is only about 2% at the best prices, itincreases up to about 20% inside the limit order...

In a financial market with one riskless asset and n risky assets following geometric Brownian motions, we solve the problem of a pension fundmaximizing the expected CRRA utility of its terminal wealth. By considering a stochastic death time for a subscriber, we solve a unique problem for both...

Investmentmanagement: Bei der indirekten Immobilieninvestition nimmt der Investor die Dienste eines so genannten Finanzintermediärs in Anspruch.Welche Wertschöpfung kann dieser Spezialist bewirken, und inwelchem Ausmass haben Investoren an dieser Wertschöpfung teil?

Immer wieder wird ein Anlagenotstand bei Immobilien festgestellt. Anleger klagen, dass brauchbare Objekte am Markt kaum noch zufinden sind. Sie stossen dabei auf wenig Widerspruch. Auf den zweiten Blick scheint das Problem allerdigs zumindest teilweise hausgemacht zu sein.

We present empirical evidence that the Thai exchange rate is driven in part by international investors' cross-border portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on two comprehensive, daily-frequency datasets of foreign exchange and equity market capital flows undertaken by nonresident...

We propose an explanation for the "disappearing dividend" phenomenon: the decline in the information content of dividend announcements. This reduces the propensity of firms to pay or increase dividends, since dividends are costly.(...)