African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...

Using new data on returns and risk factors the paper considers the stock performance on the Japanese market, which is the second largest in the world and operates under unique macroeconomic conditions. We find that the CAPM model is not an adequate approach for the Japanese market. The Carhart...

Die vorliegende Dissertation beinhaltet drei Beiträge, welche sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Dynamischen Asset Allokation befassen. Letztere beschreibt die Steuerung der Portfolioallokation eines Investors im Verlauf der Investitionsphase angesichts eines sich wandelnden Marktumfeldes und...

This paper shows that standard multifactor asset pricing models provide an adequate description of excess returns on stock indexes of German industrial sectors. The only exception is the banking sector index. It offers lower monthly excess returns than suggested by exposures to risk factors in...