In the standard CAPM with a riskless asset we give a simple proof of existence of equilibria without assuming concavity of the investor's utility functions. Moreover, we give a uniqueness result using assumptions on the risk aversion of investors.

This paper deals with the impact of the arrival of public information on the intraday trading of highly liquid stocks quoted on the Paris Bourse.

This paper anwers the question if the euro and accompanying measures of financial integration had a discernable impact on the degree of diversification of European investors?

In this paper we want to discuss macroscopic and microscopicproperties of financial markets. By analyzing quantitatively a database consisting of 13 minute per minute recorded financial time series, we identify some macroscopic statistical properties of the corresponding markets, with a special...

This paper studies the ability of a general class of habit-based asset pricing models to match the conditional moment restrictions implied by asset pricing theory.

Den Vorgaben des Bundesverfassungsgerichts folgend wurde mit der Erbschaftsteuerreform in § 11 BewG ein Bewertungssystem kodifiziert, das zur Bestimmung des gemeinen Werts für Anteile an Kapitalgesellschaften bzw. für das Betriebsvermögen auf die Methodik der Gesamtbewertung rekurriert....

This paper proposes the introduction of a consumption-based corporate income tax in the European Union. Our proposal would guarantee neutrality regarding investment decisions and at the same time increase cost-efficiency. The proposal is based on the S-base cash flow tax, where transactions...

The globalization of banking in the United States is influencing the monetarytransmission mechanism both domestically and in foreign markets. Using quarterlyinformation from all U.S. banks filing call reports between 1980 and 2005, we findevidence for the lending channel for monetary policy in...

In this paper we study information revelation on asset markets with endogenousand exogenous information. Our results indicate that superior informationcan only be exploited in the beginning of trading. Information disseminateson the market and informational advantages are counter-balancedover...