Der private Investor mit Fokus Immobiliendirektinvestitionen verfügt über relativ konstante Cash Flows aus dem Immobilienbestand, so wie allenfalls unregelmäßig anfallenden Erträgen aus Verkäufen, beziehungsweise Entwicklungsgewinnen. Den Erträgen stehen antizipierbare Kosten gegenüber....

Despite constituting the very heart of the monetary transmission mechanism, widespreadmisconceptions still exist regarding how monetary policy is implemented. This paperhighlights the key misconceptions in this regard and shows how they have compromised theunderstanding of important aspects of...

This paper shows how information about payments contained in normal market based data can be used by retailers. A possible strukture of hypotheses explaining consumers' payment behavior is described and a sample hypothesis is created and tested with actual market basket data. Knowledge of this...

[...]A key finding of our work is that for small auction sizes,TIO interest rates are fairly comparable to MBS repo rates forterm lengths of five days or more. However, shorter termlengths result in the Treasury receiving lower TIO rates relativeto market rates. We also observe a negative...

Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value-at-Risk framework. While theoretical comparisons between those...

It has been frequently discussed, that returns are not normally distributed. Liquidity costs, measuring market liquidity, are similarly non-normally distributed displaying fat tails and skewness. Liquidity risk models either ignore this fact or use the historical distribution to empirically...

Vortrag anläßlich des 12. Wirtschaftsforums Berlin "Finanz- und Börsenplatz Berlin - Aufbruch zu neuen Zielen?", Vortragsfolien mit Kurzkommentierung.[...]