Aufstrebende Kapitalmärkte (Emerging Capital Markets) erhalten seit der Jahrtausendwende wieder zunehmende Kapitalzuflüsse von internationalen Portfolioinvestoren. Für diese Entwicklung können zwei Hauptgründe angeführt werden. Zum einen sind aufstrebende Kapitalmärkte auf Grund ihres...

The ownership of German corporations is quite different today from that of Anglo-American firms. How did this come about? To what extent is it attributable to regulation? A specially constructed data set on financing and ownership of German corporations from the end of the 19th century reveals...

We investigate the relationship between net inflow to mutual bond funds that invest in emerging market economies (EMEs) and the past performance of these funds. Our main finding is that EME bond funds display a convex flow-performance relationship. In other words, past performance is a...