This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...

In this paper, we analyze equity mutual funds from the main European countries using daily and monthly returns to determine whether the temporary frequency of the data produces changes in the identification of timing skills by fund managers that justifies the current trend in the finance...