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 consider a single-asset model with two large risk-neutral arbitrageurs and a pool of price-taking value traders facing transitory, stochastic demand arising from noise trading. The model focuses on the optimal liquidation process of a distressed arbitrageur, who is forced to...

We study strategic trading by a blockholder who can intervene over time to influence the firm's cash flows. We consider the impact of asymmetric information on the incentives of the blockholder to trade, and study when information asymmetry increases blockholder ownership and leads to greater...

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...