"We perform an experimental study of complexity to assess its effect on trading behavior, price volatility, liquidity, and trade efficiency. Subjects were asked to deduce the value of a particular asset from information they were given about the composition and price of several portfolios....

Instruments for credit risk transfer arise endogenously from and interact with optimizing behavior of their users. This is particularly true with credit derivatives which are usually OTC contracts between banks as buyers and sellers of credit risk. Recent literature, however, does not account...

A good deal of time has been devoted to whether more open economies have bigger governments (compensation hypothesis) or smaller ones (efficiency hypothesis). However, most of the research has been focused mainly on trade openness, which is clearly restrictive in a world with increasingly...

Grundlagen -- Analyse der Relevanz des Benchmarkings im PREM -- Entwicklung eines Modells zum kennzahlenbasierten Portfoliomanagement mittels Benchmarking im Public Real Estate Management -- Erprobung des Modells -- Grenzen und mögliche Einwände -- Resümee.