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This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I usea sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteriathat imply irrational behavior. I nd that the rationality of investorscan not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results alsoimply that...
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Dieses Papier untersucht vier Themenbereiche: Erstens werden die Determinanten der Netto-Zuflüsse in Hedgefonds untersucht. Zweitens betrachten wir die Anreize für das Management von Hedgefonds. Drittens untersuchen wir das Verhalten von Hedgefondsinvestoren. Schliesslich betrachten wir, was...
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Mechanismen und Einsatz von Hedge Funds als Anlageinstrument werden seit längerem sowohl in der Theorei wie auch in der Praxis kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits werden die Risiken von Hedge Funds als Argument gegen deren Einsatz aufgeführt und andererseits die statistischen Charakteristiken...
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of the investor's utility functions. Moreover, we give a uniqueness result using assumptions on the risk aversion of …
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The basis of Germany´s technological competitiveness continues to be a good one. In the nineties, however, the investments to maintain this position have left much to be desired. The most recent efforts in investments, in research and development and patenting activities are found to be...
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This paper documents a relation between the shareholder base and payout policy. Consistentwith the idea that the shareholder base is related to the cost of external financing we find thatfirms with small shareholder bases have lower payout levels and maintain higher cash holdingsthan firms with...
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We study the relation between order imbalance and past returns and firm characteristics and testa number of hypothesis including the disposition effect, momentum and contrarian trading, taxlossselling and flight-to-quality hypothesis. These hypotheses make predictions about investors’buy or...
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Consider an investor trading dynamically to maximize expectedutility from terminal wealth. Our aim is to study the …
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We calculate equilibria of dynamic double-auction markets in which agents aredistinguished by their preferences and information. Over time, agents are privatelyinformed by bids and offers. Investors are segmented into groups that differ withrespect to characteristics determining information...
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Eigentlich ist alles in Butter. Die Zustimmungsquote zum Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) nähert sich zumindest im DAX Prozentwerten an, die wir sonst nur von Abstimmungen auf Hauptversammlungen kennen. Der Kodex habe sich in Deutschland durchgesetzt, lässt die Regierungskommission...
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