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.

Ziel dieser Studie ist die Analyse der Entwicklung der Preiskonvergenz und der Informationseffizienzim deutschen Gasgroßhandelsmarkt im Anschluss an die Einführung desZweivertragsmodells. Die Untersuchungen zur Preiskonvergenz stützen sich auf dieJohansen Methode und den Ansatz zeitvarianter...

Im Zuge der mit der Marktbeobachtung einhergehenden statistischen Datenaufbereitungdiskutiert die Bundesnetzagentur seit einiger Zeit mit den Eisenbahnunternehmendie Entwicklung der realen Eisenbahninfrastrukturkosten sowie mögliche Varianten einesgeeigneten Inputpreisindex. Ein solcher Index...

Agents compete to solve a problem. Each agent knows own computational capacityas private information and simultaneously chooses either a risky or a safe problemsolving method. This paper analyzes the optimal prize schemes from the perspectiveof the prize designer who wishes to …nd a solution as...

In the data, individual prices change frequently and by large amounts. In standardsticky price models, frequent and large price changes imply a fast response of the aggregate price level to nominal shocks. This paper presents a model in which price setting firms optimally decide what to observe,...

Eine Option beinhaltet das Recht, einen bestimmten Basiswert (Aktien oder Anleihen) zu ei-nem vereinbarten Preis innerhalb eines festgelegten Zeitraums oder zu einem festen Zeitpunkt zu kaufen (Kaufoption bzw. „Call“) oder zu verkaufen (Verkaufsoption bzw. „Put“). Der Käufer der Option...

We analyze how investment into the pipeline system supplying Russian natural gas to WesternEurope is distorted for strategic reasons. We use a two stage multilateral bargaining game amongheterogenous players, some lacking the ability to make long-term commitments. At the first stagethe players...

Shareholder agreements govern the relations among shareholders in privately-held firms, such as joint ventures or venture capital-backed firms. We provide an explanation for the use of put and call options, tag-along rights, drag-along rights, demand rights, piggy-back rights, and catch-up...

With its standards FAS 141 and 142 the Financial Accounting Standard Board has revo-lutionized the accounting for business combinations. One of the major changes is theabolishment of goodwill-amortization, which has been replaced by an annual impairmenttest at the level of a reporting unit....

This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume that firms face credit...