The study of liquidity in financial markets either invokes the ease with whichfinancial securities can be bought and sold, or addresses the ability to tradewithout triggering important changes in asset prices. More specifically, onecan think of liquidity as an exogenous measure of the added...

This paper examines the investment strategies of regulated companies in abatement technologies,market participants' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporalcap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performedunder varying market...

We build a multi-factor, no-arbitrage model of the term structure of spot interest rates. The stochastic factors are the short-term interest rate and the premia of the futures rates over the short-term interest rates.(...)

Sanford J. Grossman und Oliver D. Hart haben 1980 in einem grundlegenden Aufsatz darglegt, daß Übernahmen von in Streubesitz befindlichen Unternehmen am sog. Trittbrettfahrerproblem scheitern können. Unter dem Trittbrettfahrerverhalten der Aktionäre wird ihre Weigerung verstanden, ihre...

Ziel der Studie ist es, den Einfluß fiskalischer Rahmenbedingungen auf dierelative Vorteilhaftigkeit alternativer Formen der Kapitalanlage unter besondererBerücksichtigung von Wohnungsinvestitionen zu ermitteln. Auf einemKapitalmarkt in einer Welt ohne jegliche Staatseingriffe müßten die...

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

This paper estimates the issuers' demand for the banker's underwriting service across different varieties of equity-linked securities.

This paper investigates the relative performance of local and foreign financial analysts on Latin American emerging markets.

We calculate optimal portfolio choices for a long-horizon, risk-averse investor who diversifies amongEuropean stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash, when excess asset returns are predictable. Simulations areperformed for scenarios involving different risk aversion levels, horizons, and...