Nach dem Niedergang des Neuen Marktes und dem Aufstieg Londons als Börsenplatz fürjunge Unternehmen gründete die Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse im Oktober 2005 den EntryStandard.„Schwach reguliert“ und damit gewissermaßen das Gegenstück zum „streng regulierten“Prime Standard mit...

In a Lucas orchard with heterogeneous beliefs, we study the link between market-wide uncertainty, difference of opinionsand co-movement of stock returns. We show that this link plays an important role in explaining the dynamics of equilibriumvolatility and correlation risk premia. In our...

The dramatic drop in prices on the German stock exchange in the period from2000 to 2003 was one cause for the rising number of delistings in Germany. Thisdevelopment triggered the study on the aptitude of listed companies to remainlisted although the authors were well aware that a negative...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht, ob der Mehrheitsaktionär einer Gesellschaftim Vorfeld eines Zwangsausschlusses von Minderheitsaktionären (sog.Squeeze-Out) versucht, die Kapitalmarkterwartungen negativ zu beeinussen.Ein solches "manipulatives\ Verhalten wird häufig in der juristischen wie...

In this study we analyse stock price reactions to share buyback announcements froma tax perspective in Germany. To determine the influence of taxes on stock prices onthe announcement day of share buybacks two different tax regimes – the corporateimputation system and the classical corporate...

[...]In this study, we use recent historical evidence toexplore one dimension of the broad relationship betweenmarket returns and mutual fund flows: the effect of shorttermmarket returns on mutual fund flows. Research onthis issue has already confirmed high correlations betweenmarket returns and...

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

This paper proposes a novel methodology, based on the Common Principal Component analysis, allowing one to estimate the factors driving the term structure of interest rates, in the presence of time-varying covariance structure.

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We propose a new family of probability densities that can be used as substitutes and have the property of...

In this study, we develop a technique for estimating a firm’s expected cost of equity capital derivedfrom analyst consensus forecasts and stock prices. Building on the work of Gebhardt/Lee/-Swaminathan (2001) and Easton/Taylor/Shroff/Sougiannis (2002), our approach allows dailyestimation, using...