The sharp increase in equity prices over the 1990s was widely attributed to permanently higher productivity growth derived from the New Economy. This paper establishes a rational expectations model of technology innovations and equity prices, which shows that under plausible assumptions,...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...

This paper investigates the effects of the ongoing changes in industrial structures arising from technology evolution and financial liberalization on the correlations of international equity markets. Results point to the greater influence of industry structures on the international co-movements...

Als Phänomen internationaler Kapitalmärkte hat das IPO-Underpricing einen besonderen Stellenwert in der Diskussion über die Kosten eines Börsenganges. Ein Aspekt, der bei dieser Diskussion bislang weder in der Theorie noch in der Empirie Berücksichtigung findet, ist der Einfluss einer...