"This book explores the concept of a global industry through case studies, emerging research, and interdisciplinary perspectives applicable to a variety of fields in banking and finance"--Provided by publisher.

The fact that human economic behaviour has a significant irrational element - one that is simultaneously hard-to-explain and highly predictable - has fascinated economists for decades from Fechner, 1860 to Shiller, 2005 and beyond. In this dissertation, I investigate the field from various...

Trotz jahrzehntelanger Forschung zur Gültigkeit der Hypothese informationseffizienter Kapitalmärkte (EMH) sind wesentliche damit verbundene Fragestellungen noch immer ungeklärt. Eine ist diejenige nach der Existenz und der Erklärung von zeitvariablen Überrenditen ("Time Varying Excess...