This was the first paper to study exclusively the effects of Ramadan on the United Arab Emirates Stock market. In doing so, the study aims to establish such impacts with the intention of advising the investors on whether it would be profitable to invest during the holy month of Ramadan or no.The...

Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte der Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Manfred Steiner liegen in den Bereichen Finanzielle Unternehmensführung und Shareholder Value, Unternehmensbewertung sowie Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung und Rating. Darüber hinaus sind Beiträge zu Finanzinnovationen, zum...

We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...