Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine volatility transmissions between portfolios of cross-listed equities and exchange rate differences and also the volatility persistence for home, foreign equities, and exchange rate differences in the UK and German markets....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the local correlation technique to measure flight to quality, which is defined as a pronounced and generally rapid increase in risk aversion. Flight to quality between American, British, German, Japanese, and Hong Kong spot equity indices and index...

For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics...

An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...

Verbraucherorganisationen sollen durch die Information der Verbraucher und die Vertretung ihrer Interessen dazu beitragen, die Funktionsfähigkeit der Märkte zu verbessern. Die Arbeit der Organisationen wird aufgrund ihrer Bedeutung vom Staat finanziert. Dieses System hat allerdings folgende...

Many small businesses fail before their fifth anniversary, with proportionally more minority owned businesses failing than others. The bulk of these failing entities is often organized in the form of sole proprietorship, while sound business partnerships could potentially be conducive to better...

Efficiency audit of business partnership is a mean of analyzing and monitoring business partnerships in terms of optimizing the financial management of the company. Its implementation is possible both in the form of internal audit by implementation of the tasks placed to the internal audit staff...