Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Tests auf stochastische Dominanz, welche ein grundlegendes Konzept der Entscheidungstheorie ist. Hierbei konzentrieren wir uns auf stochastische Dominanz erster und zweiter Ordnung. Diese sind die beiden wichtigsten Entscheidungsregeln und finden Anwendung in...

This paper serves two purposes. First, we introduce a new data set on the German stock market which is publicly available to all researchers. It comprises factor returns (a market factor, a size factor, a book-to-market factor, and a momentum factor) as well as returns of portfolios which are...

This paper studies the persistence of daily returns of 21 German stocks from 1960 to 2008. We apply a widely used test based upon the modified R/S-Method by Lo [1991]. As an extension to Lux [1996] and Carbone et al. [2004] and in analogy to moving average or moving volatility, the statistics is...