Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

In dieser Arbeit werden weltweit wichtige Aktienkursindizes (AI´s) dargestellt, wobei eine axiomatische Untersuchung im Vordergrund steht. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist hierbei die Struktur, d.h. auch insbesondere die verwendeten Indexformeln und die eingesetzten Korrekturmethoden für den Fall...

Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um eine Untersuchung mit dem Ziel, die Reaktionen im Umfeld von Veränderungen der Zusammensetzung der großen deutschen Aktienindizes DAX, MDAX und HDAX zu ermitteln. Da in der idealtypischen Finanztheorie eine Indexauswechslung keine...

When using derivative instruments such as futures to hedge a portfolio of risky assets, the primary objective is to estimate the optimal hedge ratio (OHR). When agents have mean-variance utility and the futures price follows a martingale, the OHR is equivalent to the minimum variance hedge...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite stock price index at the Jakarta Stock Exchange in 2007 - 2009. The method of analysis used to investigate the effect of the rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite...

Identifying a suitable benchmark is essential when testing asset pricing models, measuring the performance of active investors, or providing market proxy portfolios for passive investors. Concern that increased domination of capitalization weighted stock indices by a few large firms will lead to...

This paper investigates the hypotheses that the recently established Mexican stock index futures market effectively serves the price discovery function, and that the introduction of futures trading has provoked volatility in the underlying spot market. We test both hypotheses simultaneously with...

Capital market represent the market transactions between the company and investor. For investors who invest their funds in shares of a company aims to earn revenue namely dividends. Many factors affect the stock price on the stock exchange, such as price earnings ratio (PER) and cash dividends....