We construct a database of U.S. federal court decisions pertaining to copyright and changes in federal statutory copyright law, and use this database to assemble indices measuring changes in the breadth of copyright protection. We combine our indices with information on excess returns to equity...

Utilizing a master list produced by Viscusi (2004) of what he called “blockbuster” jury awards – those amounting to $100 million or more, – we selected 17 cases where the defendant had traded shares (we excluded the tobacco cases) to see the stock market reaction to these announced...

The proliferation of algorithmic high-frequency trading in financial markets has also led to an increase in new types of fraudulent activity. Since the flash-crash of 2010 first brought it to popular prominence, layering or spoofing fraud has become a major concern for financial regulators...

The stock market behaviour and trend can be move according to the different internal, external, micro economic and macro economic factors. The impact of some events that definitely occurs can't be envisaged by the stock market with confidence due to their nature. A budget is an influential...

Over the last three decades, the world economy has been facing stock market crashes, currency crisis, the dot-com and real estate bubble burst, credit crunch and banking panics. As a response, extreme value theory (EVT) provides a set of ready-made approaches to risk management analysis....

This paper analyzes whether the market portfolio is efficiently related to benchmark portfolios formed on size, value, momentum and reversal with various utility theories by using stochastic dominance criteria. The results support the prospect theory including assumption of loss aversion at...

A speculative bubble is usually defined as the difference between the market value of a security and its fundamental value. Although there are several important theoretical issues surrounding the topic of asset bubbles, the existence of bubbles is inherently an empirical issue that has not been...

Das vorliegende Papier verfolgt, den empirischen Zusammenhang zwischen den realen Aktienmarktniveaus von Deutschland und den USA zur Aktienmarktprognose zu verwenden ...

This paper analyzes optimal portfolio choice and consumption with stochastic volatility in incomplete markets.