Weather influences our daily lives and choices and has an enormous impact on cooperate revenues and earnings. Weather derivatives differ from most derivatives in that the underlying weather cannot be traded and their market is relatively illiquid. The weather derivative market is therefore...

This paper reconsiders the process of price discovery in spot and futures markets. In our study, we examine the contribution of two derivative products of the German blue chip index DAX: Exchange traded funds and index futures. In order to eliminate noise caused by differences in the...

The aim of this paper is to examine the existence of short–run lead–lag effects between the spot and the futures market in the German stock exchange and particularly the DAX index, over the period 1/2000 - 12/2003, using intradaily data. As long as such relationships are established we...

Just as other jurisdictions across the globe, German private and regulatory law is still struggling to get to terms with the challenges created by virtual currencies such as BitCoin or Ether. While some recent adjustments to the legal framework for financial regulation, ahead of incoming EU...