We apply the Quantile Regression Model to observe the rankcorrelation between bond fund performance and asset,volatility, management fee, Sharpe index and show that fundperformance between volatility as a negative significantrelationship, implied extreme values have been generated...

This study applies by the panel transition regression (PSTR) model to investigate the nonlinear dynamic relationship between equity fund flow and investment volatility in Taiwan. Our empirical results show that the equity fund managers will be different business strategy under the volatility...

This study focuses on open-ended equity mutual funds in Thailand. The funds’ performances were examined whether the returns significantly and persistently out-perform the market; whether the use of different measures leads funds with similar rankings. The analyses use various metrics: the...

In this article we would like to analyze The European Investment Fund and the trends registered by the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Market. For the European Investment Fund, the main results for 2006 and the trends registered from the point of view of...

Using data for 193 equity funds in Taiwan, we examine whether fund managers behave overconfidently. We show that the higher the fund performance, the more that trading occurs in the next period. In addition, such trading may hurt subsequent performance, although the evidence is marginal. Our...

Der multisektorale Sammelindikator für die Schweizer Gesamtkonjunktur weist gegenüber eine Reihe von methodischen Innovationen auf und berücksichtigt eine vergleichsweise grosse Anzahl von Indikatorreihen. Für den Stützbereich von 1991 bis 2002 erhalten wir auf Quartalsbasis einen stabilen...

Geschlossene Fonds sind heutzutage ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Kapitalmarktes. Mehr und mehr haben sich für solche Fonds Handelsplattformen, sog. Zweitmärkte, herausgebildet, auf denen diese Beteiligung nach Erwerb gehandelt werden können. In diesem Artikel wird der...

Um bei Konjunkturanalysen Aufschluss über konjunkturelle Schwankungen erlangen zu können, werden in der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung Veränderungsraten wie Jahresdurchschnittsraten, laufende (Jahres-) Raten etc. in die Datenerfassung und -aufbereitung miteinbezogen. In welchem Masse die...

In this paper we study a sender-receiver game between an uninformed government and two informed lobbyists. There is a conflict of interest between government and lobbyists in the sense that the government's payoff is state-dependent while lobbyists prefer a certain policy irrespective of the...

A decisionmaker gets independent advice from two experts, who can be of two different types. Experts are risk-neutral and prefer certain policies irrespective of the state of nature, so to induce information-sharing the decisionmaker must reward truthful experts. I show that, in this...