Seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs im Jahre 1989 befinden sich die zentral-, ost- und süd-osteuropäische Länder in einem Übergang von kommunistischen zu marktwirtschaftlich orientierten Volkswirtschaften. Eng damit verknüpft ist die Entstehung von Börsen für Aktien, die in den letzten...

Assessments of investors’ risk appetite/aversion stance via indicators often yields resultswhich seem unsatisfactory (see e.g. Illing and Aaron (2005)). Understanding howsuch indicators work therefore seems essential for further improvements. The presentpaper seeks to contribute to this...

The question that this paper raise in this paper is how to choose the best mix of countries to diversify internationally? They compare several methods of asset allocation from a Swiss perspective over the period 1988-2001.

o obtain the maximum benefits from diversification, financial theory suggests that investors should invest internationally because of the larger potential for risk reduction. The question that we raise in this paper is how to select the optimal portfolio of countries? This article synthesizes...

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer newinsights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreignrisky assets, or “home bias”, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribesthe...

Die zunehmende Globalisierung der weltweiten Realwirtschaften hat zu einem Anstieg derKorrelationen zwischen den Aktienmärkten der unterschiedlichen Länder geführt. Damit einhergehendwird für internationale Aktieninvestoren eine Länderdiversifikation ihrer Aktienportefeuillesimmer weniger...

This paper suggests a factor model for carry trade strategies wherethe regression coeffcients are allowed to depend on market volatility and liquid-ity. Empirical results on daily data from 1995 to 2008 show that a typical carrytrade strategy has much higher exposure to the stock market and also...